Emdad Rahman interviews the author of Josephine, the black, the white “When mother was a little child, she’d need two or three French grammar books which couldn’t be easily found and cost a lot of money. ‘You will need this ...

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 ...

The Government’s Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced three new major motorway schemes. The plans are to create “smart roads” on parts of the M1 and M3 which aim to cut congestion and give drivers smoother, quicker journeys. Construction will ...

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has outlined details of the London Curriculum, which puts the city itself at the heart of learning in the capital. He announced his scheme during a speech he made at the Education Reform Summit ...

Tower Hamlets Council celebrated grass root volunteers at the CanDo Celebration and Awards ceremony on 25th June at the Mile End Ecology Pavilion. The project provides start up support to individuals with ideas on how to help residents shape attitudes ...

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 ...

Students at Bow School have praised their new surroundings after moving into their £30million new building. Tower Hamlets Council partnered with developer Bouygues UK to deliver the state-of-the-art new school at Bow Lock on time and on budget. The completion ...

Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for rail services and jobs to be protected as a new superfranchise of Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) services gets underway. The Government appears ...

Local artists are excited to see new artwork filling the white space on the walls of the new dental hospital. Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren has produced Constructing a New World to display at the site. The work was commissioned by ...

Patients and students in London’s East End are set to benefit as the UK’s first new dental school and hospital in nearly 40 years – the £78 million Royal London Dental Hospital – officially opens its doors this week. The ...