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A Not So Wonderful Time Of The Year?

It’s too early to know what the advertising spend for Christmas 2022 was. According to the Guardian, John Lewis did not spend as much on...

How The Cost Of Living Crisis Is Affecting Students

While some get government support with energy bills and housing costs, students are being left out. This especially applies to international and other students...

Crisis In Care: One Woman’s Story

The UK care industry is a total shambles and the support being given to the elderly and those that care for them is often...

Strep A Breaks Out In South East London

Fifteen children under the age of fifteen have so far died from Strep A related illnesses in England since September, including a 12-year-old boy...

Strikes by Nurses: East London Hospitals Will Barely Be Affected

Nurses from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland are planning to strike on the 15th and 20th of December. At least 177 NHS trusts will...

NHS Nurse On The State Of A&E: “It’s The Worst It’s Ever Been”

The hospital waiting list in England just hit a new high of 7.2 million people. And for the first time in 106 years, the...

Men’s Mental health: Musicians who spoke out

Many male musicians had spoken up about their struggles or shown support for others during the Men's Mental Health month of November. Dave, a rapper...

Can A Sleep Workshop Help You Sleep?

It's 5 am, and I'm fully awake. For the fifth time in a row, I wake up hours before my alarm goes off, my...

Why Don’t We Like Our Bodies?

Apparently women are now rejecting the Brazilian Butt Lift! But new insecurities continue about our bodies. In a world of plastic surgery, fillers and...

Sephora Returns To London

The rumours are true. After years of speculation, online beauty giant Sephora will return to the UK. The French retailer used to have a...

Covid Makes A Comeback

China is experiencing its worst Covid outbreak since the initial outbreak back in 2019. The chart below it shows the spike in the outbreak of the...

What Do Students Hope For?

When we reach a certain age, we begin to worry about the future, and questions such as "where do you see yourself in 5...

Off The Shelf Space For The Self?

A new face-to-face walk-in therapy centre in Shoreditch is offering students a significant discount. Self Space at 69 Rivington Street will give students a 50...

Burning Down The House?

https://vimeo.com/676555752 Recently my hand steamer – which was turned off at the time - started a fire in my bedroom. It could have burned down...

‘Virginity Testing’ Is A Modern-Day Myth In Waiting

Trigger warning: this article contains explicit material, most of which is not true. The UK government is making plans to criminalise ‘virginity testing’ and hymen...

For The Love Of BOD – My Cosmetic Surgery Experience

After a long battle with myself, I finally decided to undergo a new cosmetic procedure that has been booming the industry, Non-Invasive Liposuction, also...

VIVA Glam’s World AIDS Day Fund

The famous makeup brand MAC Cosmetic has raised over $500 million through the sale of the viva glam lipsticks. MAC Cosmetics has been a long-time...

Remember Remember Men’s Health In November

The whole of November, commonly known as “Movember” or “No Shave November” is dedicated to awareness of men’s health - particularly prostate and testicular...

Night Tube For Christmas?

With Christmas coming, night-time travel will become more and more essential. Uber has just increased its fares by 10% in London whilst Bolt will soon...

World AIDS Day – Fighting Stigma

This year's World AIDS Day event is on December 1st , and given recent comments by former rugby player Gareth Thomas and Drag Race participant...

Can Deodorant Cause Breast Cancer?

A few years ago, an email on the internet claimed that aluminium in deodorants caused breast cancer. Since then, some women fear deodorants. Even...

Has Retouching Reached The End Of The Road?

Recently, the designer and Instagram influencer Matilda Djerf, who has over 1m followers, took to Instagram to share her experiences as a model back...

Refill Retail Therapy

The concerns of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow that ends today apprently also concern most Londoners. According to the National Lottery Community...

Transport Concerns Over North East London’s New Health Hub

Plans for the redevelopment of part of the former St Georges Hospital site, submitted by the North-East London NHS, have just been approved last...

Proliferation Of Pro-Lifers Provokes Protest

After last week's widely-reported student backlash over an anti-abortion society at the University of Exeter, YouGov released a poll that shows 47% of Britons...

Is Self-Help For Saps?

When I was 19-years-old my self-image wasn’t the greatest. I saw myself as lazy and unmotivated; as someone who hadn’t achieved much and as...

Lessons We Can Learn From Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation (available on Netflix) follows a group of friends (what sitcom doesn’t?) who are government workers as they navigate the tricky and...

Does Ramadan Benefit The Wider World?

As Ramadan recently drew to a close, family and friends described the month in the way they always do, as one full of a...

The No Packaging Challenge

  https://vimeo.com/551511697 In an attempt to reduce my carbon footprint, I decided to try living without packaging in East London for three days. I cycle everywhere and...

Hospital Stories

Over the past few months of the pandemic, medical reporting has inevitably concentrated on coronavirus. But in the meantime life in hospitals has had...

‘We Are Who We Serve’ – Hackney Teenagers Making A Difference

A group of remarkable young teenagers have been delivering food to those who need it throughout the pandemic on the Kingsmead Estate in Hackney....

Eat, Sleep, Netflix, Repeat: My Quarantine Diary

This is Maxi Pfeifer's ten-day quarantine diary. She took it one episode at a time. Could you do any better? Day 0: My rescheduled flight...

East London Teacher Calls For Students To Get Together Over The Vaccine

A Bethnal Green Teacher's initiative has won the support of the Stephen Hawking Foundation. The Foundation's mission statement is to "promote critical thinking, ask big...

Shadowy Theories Stalk The Playground?

According to an interview in the East London Advertiser, some of the students allowed to go back to school on March 8th may have...

Breaking The Grip Of Social Media

Trapped in a perpetual loop on social media, mindless mildly funny Tik Tok after Tik Tok, I paused for a moment and pondered if that classic book collecting...

Vaccination Figures Made Simple

Rising East has already reported that resistance to taking the vaccine in East London is significant. This will not have been helped by recent...

Locked Down And Locked In?

You could be forgiven for thinking that lockdown gives introverts a chance to enjoy their occasional preference for seclusion. So hopefully the pandemic's enforced...

Lessons We Can Learn From The Office

So I’ve finally finished watching the Office US, and it is now my favorite television show of all time. In this sitcom the concept...

Which Side (Effect) Are You On?

Today's government figures for the first dose stand at just under 21 million, and the more that people are vaccinated, the clearer it is becoming that...

How Do The Quarantine Hotels Work?  

Just over a week ago all UK residents and those with residence rights arriving here from the 33 countries included in the UK’s ‘red...

Tales From The Front Line Of Long Covid

The UK has administered over 17 million first doses of the vaccine. This brings us one step closer to that light at the end...

East London Is Vaccination Cold Spot

As London falls behind the rest of the country with its vaccine rollout, NHS figures show that one of the worst vaccination rates is...

A Care Free Christmas?

Help around some of the issues discussed in this interview is offered through Listening Works who can be texted on 0808 802 0222 and...