Brockwell Park stabbing: Live updates as police descend on South London park after daylight knife attack

London crime: Man in 20s stabbed in East Ham rushed to hospital

A young man is in hospital after being stabbed in East Ham. London Ambulance Service (LAS) paramedic called police to the scene of the knife attack on High Street South, in the... Read more »
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South East London records nation’s slowest vaccine uptake

South East London has the slowest vaccination rate in the country, and has given jabs to the lowest percentage of over 80s for any region in England. London remains lagging behind the... Read more »
London house prices: The cheapest places to live in East London along the London Underground's District Line

London house prices: The cheapest places to live in East London along the London Underground’s District Line

The District Line runs along some of East London’s most popular and touristy spots, like Whitechapel and Tower Hill. It also runs through the classic ‘East End’, of London. That is not... Read more »
Victoria Park: Man in 80s dies after falling from height near Tower Hamlets park

Victoria Park: Man in 80s dies after falling from height near Tower Hamlets park

A man in his 80s has died after falling from a residential building near Victoria Park in East London. Police were called at 12pm on Sunday (February 14) to reports of a... Read more »
The East London street that only the biggest fans of MasterChef will recognise

The East London street that only the biggest fans of MasterChef will recognise

The hopeful chefs, the brutal judging and high stake dishes of MasterChef have delighted viewers for years. But only the biggest fans of the hit BBC cooking show would likely recognise a... Read more »
'Eye of the storm': Diverse east London grapples with virus

Diverse east London grapples with virus

Road cleaners work in the town centre of Ilford in London, Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. In parts of east London, the pandemic is hitting much harder than most places in the U.K.... Read more »
A long line of students gather outside a food bank in east London

Overseas university students starved by racist rules during coronavirus pandemic

A long line of students gather outside a food bank in east London (Pic: Socialist Worker) Anamparveen hasn’t got the money to buy food—but her university is still sending emails asking her... Read more »

DeDraft completes green metal extension to AR Residence in London

Architecture studio DeDraft has remodelled a terraced house in east London, adding a kitchen extension clad in green aluminium panels that connects the interior with the garden. Hackney-based DeDraft oversaw the modernisation of... Read more »
13 arrests and seven weapons seized during police operation in East London

13 arrests and seven weapons seized during police operation in East London

13 arrests and seven weapons seized during police operation in East London 09 Feb 2021 9.22 am Lianna Bagley The operation was carried out across Havering, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham (credit:... Read more »
East London and West Essex Guardian Series:

Almost a third of east London over-80s not vaccinated for Covid

East London now has the smallest percentage of over-80s who have received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine in the entire country. A little under a third of the area’s... Read more »