Services on a major section of London’s new £19bn Elizabeth line have been suspended because of a swan blocking the tracks. Transport for London (TfL) said there were no services between Heathrow... Read more »
Former mayoress and Tower Hamlets councillor Beatty Orwell, veteran campaigner in the 1936 ‘Battle of Cable Street’, has died at her Bethnal Green home surrounded by family — just 14 days short of... Read more »
The incredible story of two brothers who attended the same school and boxing club in east London but did not know the other existed is set to be told on a hit TV show. IT businessman... Read more »
The country’s leading tumour treatment specialist whose research helped set up fast-track diagnostic centres has been on a fact-finding mission to see how two east London hospitals are cutting waiting lists. Consultant... Read more »
An east London doctor has been suspended after a misconduct panel heard he provided false information for his children’s visa applications. Dr Mohammad Abdul Gaffar lied about two of his adult sons’ ages in the applications... Read more »
CNN — HSBC is halving the size of its global headquarters and moving out of Canary Wharf, a business district built in the abandoned docklands of east London in the 1980s. Europe’s... Read more »
A limousine caught fire on a main Tower Hamlets road over the weekend, shutting the Limehouse Link Tunnel in both directions. Four engines and around 25 firefighters were called to an alight vehicle... Read more »
A market research firm is one of many businesses named and shamed on a government list of employers failing to pay the minimum wage. There have been 202 employers listed nationally who... Read more »
The pair breezed past Asif Abbasi and Manojkanth Somasundaram 6-0 6-0 in the last four on Saturday and will face Joachim Gerard and Stephane Houdet for the right to lift the trophy.... Read more »
A three-storey house has collapsed in east London. Dozens of firefighters, search dogs and a drone team were called to the property in Gloucester Drive, Hackney, on Saturday afternoon. Social media images... Read more »
