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Osborne warned us, in effect, that this week’s budget will be a shocker when he announced earlier this week that he is aiming to cut public spending by half by 2020. He thought cuts on this scale would be necessary ...

Questions were being asked on Sunday as John “two jobs” Biggs displayed a very relaxed attitude to the second Britain First demonstration outside the East London Mosque in a fortnight. It was around 1.15pm on Sunday that just over a ...

As the junior hospital doctors started their second day of strike action, new figures were released which showed that the Government’s strategy of starving the NHS of money are having an effect on patient treatment. The NHS has a target ...

At 8am today, junior hospital doctors began a 48-hour strike – wondering whether it would be third time lucky as they attempt to defeat government attempts to change their contracts. Doctors had already staged two one-day strikes, after negotiations between ...

There was traditional East End rebellion in the air on Saturday, as over 100 residents of Old Ford Housing Association gathered at St Paul’s Church in St Stephen’s Road to ask what had gone wrong with their housing association. As ...

EU leaders are meeting today, on the eve of International Women’s Day, to plan how to deal with migrants in the EU, those hammering on doors and those yet to arrive. The result of their deliberations is likely to increase ...

One of the few benefits of being Pope is that you are infallible – you don’t make mistakes. In all good games, there’s a special reward when you get to the top level, and in Catholicism anyone who gets to ...

At one minute past 7pm on Friday, 9th February 1996 a massive boom swirled round the Isle of Dogs – a noise few residents had heard before. Residents felt their blocks sway. Looking out the window, residents saw a swirl ...

The 2012 Olympics held in East London were supposed to leave a legacy for Londoners who shelled out on developing the Stratford site where the Games were held. East Londoners were hoping that the Athletes Village would, after minor conversion, ...

On 23rd April – St George’s Day – last year, the first directly-elected Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman, a man who had won two boroughwide elections in Tower Hamlets, was dismissed from office at the stroke of a pen from a ...