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THIS BEAUTIFUL partnership of housing and water calms the soul and must be peaceful to live in. The homes, reflected in the water, create an air of symmetry and order. The water is a short outlet from Blackwall Basin that ...

Emdad Rahman THE HEDGECOCK Centre will be hosting a special Eid Fun Day for the community in Barking. The community event is open to everyone and will take place tomorrow: Saturday, 15th June. The event runs from 3pm to 7pm ...

TODAY WE look out over a Thames at high tide to what we now know as the O2 Arena – one of East London’s most popular entertainment venues. The building was originally constructed to hold the Millennium Exhibition, one of ...

GEAR UP for the arrival of the cyclists! On 27th July, 200 cyclists will be welcomed to the East End at an open air event with food and entertainment at St John on Bethnal Green Church. The cyclists are part ...

TODAY WE gaze north up the Millwall Inner Dock. Once a busy working dock, over the last 30 years what was once public land has been taken over by high rise blocks of flat. Most of them are for sale; ...

TODAY THERE WAS “fowl play” on the Thames as two members of our avian community came out to enjoy the early afternoon sun. •If you have a photo of the Thames which you would like to share with our readers ...

THE ENTIRE southern boundary of Tower Hamlets runs alongside the Thames – London’s major river, which cuts our capital city in two. Sadly busy Tower Hamlets residents don’t always have time to admire the view – to watch the changing ...

EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...

THE LONDON FIRE Brigade has warned everyone to take care when holding a barbecue outdoors – or when discarding cigarettes. Last year London endured a spate of grass fires as the grass dried out and residents forgot how easily it ...

IT IS “thanks to the bigotry of a few” was what rebel Labour MP Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Yardley part of Birmingham told the BBC. She was reacting to a decision by the City Council to ban protests ...