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 »
By Hermia Rhodes Transport for London (TfL) has announced that the London Cable Car will be sponsored by a new company. The IFS will sponsor the cable car for a minimum of... Read more »
The look of the London’s Cable Car is set to be transformed after Emirates failed to renew its contract with TfL to sponsor the service to and from the Greenwich peninsula. TfL... Read more »
The 85th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, which stopped Mosley’s blackshirts marching through Whitechapel, is being marked by a commemorative banner created by today’s East End youth. The banner is being unfurled today (October 4) in front of the permanent mural in... Read more »
Both suffered extreme accidents and one was subjected to a six-minute cardiac therapeutic massage as medical doctors on the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin frantically tried to save lots of the child’s... Read more »
I’ve lived in East London for years now but until this week I had never been on the cable car across the Thames. To be honest there had never been a reason... Read more »