Emdad Rahman Former and current England stars Michael Vaughan, Lydia Greenway, Jenny Gunn and Graeme Swann joined in to celebrate and recognise the impact made by grass-roots volunteers at the NatWest Outstanding Service to cricket awards (OSCAs) for 2014. The ...

Emdad Rahman The English Cricket Board has announced the shortlist for the twelfth annual NatWest Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards. BBC Commentator Jonathan Agnew will host an esteemed event of 400 guests next week, which will see eight OSCAs presented. ...

Electropopsters Metronomy announced months ago that they would be playing Alexandra Palace on 5th December. (Check them out on the video on our home page for the next few days, which shows them performing The Upsetter at this year’s Field ...

Mary Berry, RHS Ambassador, added the final rose to a three-tiered floral cake display made by floral decorator to the Royals and celebrities Simon Lycett, to celebrate the opening of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Wisley Flower Show. The show ...

Lutfur Rahman, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, officially opened the new “pocket park” in Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green during a community event on Friday, 15th August. The environmentally-friendly park has transformed a local eyesore into an asset everyone can enjoy. Residents ...

Tower Hamlets Council continues to strive to arrest a “dealer a day”, with officers carrying out further stings in Stepney and Isle of Dogs this month. The recent raids have led to the seizure of heroin, cocaine and cannabis with ...

It’s hard to keep a secret in Tower Hamlets – so all credit to East End Homes for keeping the outcome of their meeting last week totally under wraps. By way of context, you should know that when Labour Councillors ...

The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has released details of its Summer Gathering. The event will be on Sunday, 24th August at Spitalfields City farm, between 12 noon and 5pm. As usual there will be workshops, stalls and a tour of ...

Geoff Juden, Chair of the East London Garden Society, looks at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard Development. The community has asked for Weavers Shoreditch Woods to be created: why have the developers refused? We who live in the Shoreditch area of ...

The East London Gardening Society (ELGS) is still campaigning hard to get a pollution-reducing Forest Garden included in the Bishopsgate Goods Yard redevelopment. Planting on this scale is using a traditional method to improve air quality, and it would have ...