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 »
Its marketing boards adorned properties across the capital and in the heyday and afterglow of the 1960s commercial property boom, the firm employed more than 70 people occupying the entire floors of... Read more »
Before Annie Macmanus – aka veteran DJ Annie Mac – started her four-hour set for her new night, Before Midnight, she wandered around the early arrivals saying hello. They all said the... Read more »
B oris Johnson should resign over the “embarrassment” of Partygate, a veteran London Tory has said. Bromley councillor Nicholas Bennett, who served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, told the... Read more »
Helen Jewitt was just 23 years old when women were first called up to serve in the Second World War. She was born Helen Cecilia Tocher in Hamilton, near Glasgow in 1918.... Read more »
Remembrance Sunday is a time of year where respects are paid to war heroes and veterans, but this was not the case. A gay RAF veteran claims he and his husband were... Read more »
The event has now ended on Madeira Drive, where motorists have been arriving all day from London. Pictures show the classic cars as they make their way through the city towards the... Read more »
An Iraq war veteran from south London has been praised by the Prime Minister after winning a prestigious Soldiering On award recently. Former Rifleman Stephen Vause was left severely disabled by a... Read more »
Trevor Bygate was 5,000 miles away serving in the Army when he got the call no one should ever receive – his daughter Chloe had taken her own life. “It’s something no... Read more »