Whitechapel High Street pic: Gina Gambetta Whitechapel Road is to get a facelift with new street lighting, better pavements and more greenery after the council secured £9.3m funding from the government. The... Read more »
Published: 9:31 AM November 1, 2021 A £9million government windfall has been won to regenerate Whitechapel Road ready for London’s new Elizabeth line. It is being used to spruce up the street market outside Whitechapel station to meet the transformation that’s about to... Read more »
Traders in an East London market have called for better stalls to replace “dangerous” stands that blow away in the wind. Business owners in Whitechapel Market said that the local council should... 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 »
A giant Bangla light sculpture has been unveiled in Whitechapel to mark 50 years of Bangladesh independence. Artist Ruhul Abdin has created the installation in fabric and suspended it in the façade of the Idea Store library building. He worked with... Read more »
An appeal has been made to the mayor of London for station signs at Whitechapel to be made bilingual in Bangla as well as English. In a letter to London mayor Sadiq... Read more »
A couple stuck abroad during the Covid pandemic desperately want to return home to Whitechapel with their newly-adopted baby — but are having to wait for a visa to do so. Farzana and Mikail Rahman were approved for... Read more »
Two men have been ordered to pay thousands of pounds for renting out flats in Whitechapel in breach of planning regulations. A prohibition order preventing the property in East Mount Street, off Whitechapel Road,... Read more »
Developers want to build a skyscraper in Whitechapel’s conservation zone which would take up the playground of Canon Barnett Primary school. A company registered in Panama has put an application into Tower Hamlets Council for the 19-storey... Read more »
A raid by 24 police officers on a 200-year-old building in Whitechapel, in the early hours of Friday, February 12 revealed a nightclub-style cannabis café. In a joint operation with police, Tower Hamlets Homes (THH)... Read more »
