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Orient Miss Out Again

Leyton Orient Manager, Danny Webb praised his players saying, "They gave it their all", after they suffered a 2-1 defeat to Carlisle at The...

CosPlay It Again At Comicon

There are plenty of reasons to be excited, not least because May has always been the bigger and better event in the Comicon season....

Shooting Their Way To The Top?

London Shoot Fighters is widely known as a mixed Martial Arts and Combat Sports gym.

First Impressions Of East London

Trizia Nicole (24) found Mile End hard to get used to, having come from a beautiful sea side town in the Philippines together with her...

Where’s The Juice?

Molly Horne does the rounds of East London's top juice bars. The latest health trend is to be seen carrying a bottle of something gloriously...

Newham Cocaine Bust

Police recently raided 18 homes in Manor Park and arrested 16 people aged between 17 and 50 on suspicion of supplying crack cocaine. The scale...

Help That’s Hard To Find

Newham has one of the lowest cancer survival rate in the UK, with almost four in 10 cancer patients dying within 12 months of...

Refuge Wins Award

A Newham women’s refuge has won a national UK Housing Award. Beverley Lewis House is the UK’s only refuge that offers places to women...

Going Large In Lewisham

Lewisham’s Model Market has returned for the third year running, providing foods, drink and entertainment for a big night out at the weekend. Run by...

Bye, Bye Bo-Jo

As I write the votes – yesterday was polling day – are still being counted. But we already know that the campaign to be...

Stalkers Beware!

The last week of April 2016 was National Stalking Awareness Week in the UK. The aim was to highlight the importance of reporting this...

Get Me To The Docks On Time

Cally Skinner insists that improved transport links are key to the prospective rise of the Royal Docks. London is moving East. More businesses are starting...

Not The Last Of Britain First

The Britain First campaign has staged another demonstration in East London. A small group of activists stood outside a mosque holding banners saying ‘taking...

Vive La France (In Spitalfields)

Paris is not within spitting distance, but Sammie Curry was transported there from E1. I had walked out of London, and stepped into Paris. Confronted with...

Saturday Night’s All Right For Foodies

The Urban Food Festival is back. Every Saturday until December, the Euro Car Park in Shoreditch will be packed with stalls and trucks featuring...

Falling In Love Again

Schahrazade Halfaoui finds freedom from digital overload in Libreria. A new bookshop that aims to help customers disengage from the digital world has launched in...

Paint And Light In The Tunnel

Schahrazade Halfaoui goes South to SE1 where the graffiti comes from. Next to House of Vans near Waterloo, Leake Street tunnel is the go-to place...

Bugs Between The Bricks?

Emma Brand hears of unhygienic conditions in the kitchens of Brick Lane. You can get nearly any type of food you want down Brick Lane,...

Africa Comes To Market

The African Market showcases ethnic fashion, arts & crafts, delicacies and street foods, natural beauty products and traditional music, featuring a selection of African...

Date Or Mate – Dress To Impress On Saturday Night

Samantha Catherine Curry shows how you can paint the town red – either with your mates or preferably on a hot date. Whether you’re indulging...

Canary Wharf Sparkles In Winter

Kay Ayed sees the light shining on the Wharf. The bright lights of Canary Wharf's towers already provide quite the spectacle after dark, but that...

‘Tis The Season…..For Watching EastEnders

Emma Brand & Friends preview a ‘moderately big part of Christmas’. The EastEnders Christmas Special is known for being melodramatic. This Christmas in Albert Square is...

Busted No More

Emma Brand can't help being excited about the Busted reunion tour. It was the day people up and down the country had been waiting for. The...

Paris And The Pentecostals

In this week’s contribution to her ongoing series Religion Without Borders, Sandra Amas Egbaran visits a Pentecostal Church in South East London. As I entered The...

Solidarity With Parisians Everywhere

Grace Eracleous reports on early responses to the Paris massacre. Cities around the world held hands with one another in a display of solidarity and...

Lounge With The TOWIE Look

Samantha Curry luxuriates in loungewear loved in Essex. TOWIE star Nicole Bass is not only wearing her new loungewear products from fashion brand Belle Luxe....

Ducking, Diving and Sports Merchandising

Drew Goodsell previews his ongoing investigation into official and unofficial marketing of sports gear. Sports merchandising is a multi-million-pound industry, with sports teams and well...

Dual Vision of Ulster

Marius Moen Holtan visits two Ulsters without leaving East London. If you go down Heneage Street, an uninviting alley off Brick Lane, you will most...

Reporting Religion

Sandra Amas Egbaran - all she is saying, is give priests a chance. Who has not read that all over the world, bar a few...

This Is Poverty, Not Nicety

Sid Ouared questions the ‘constitutional question’ over tax credit cuts. When Conservative government plans to reduce tax credits were knocked back by the House of...
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Nothing Comical About Nerdism

Seriously, London is set to become Nerd City this summer, according to Callum Crumlish. Nerd culture has become quite the money-making phenomenon in the past...
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Positive Reception For HIV Home Testing

An East London doctor, who wishes to remain anonymous, welcomed the recent introduction of HIV home testing kits, saying that ‘the test empowers people.’...
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Loss Of Faith?

Am I losing my faith?  Or rather, is the Islam I was brought up with, the one I always knew, all but lost to...
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Sky Over Shoreditch

Emma Brand has been touched by the Sky Garden. The Sky Garden, high above the hustle and bustle of hipster Brick Lane, has one of...

Aske And Ye Shall Find A Decent Pub

Tom Hedley worships at The Old Haberdasher. New Cross wasn’t always androgynous pubs and chicken shops. In the seventeenth century the land belonged to the...
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What’s It Like The First Time?

Sian Davis hears the thoughts of a virgin voter. Now that the election is days away and the TV debates are done and dusted,...

St George’s Day On Bishposgate

Callum Crumlish observes the changeable atmosphere in Dirty Dick's. On Bishopsgate, opposite Liverpool Street Station, stands the English institution previously known as The Old Jerusalem,...

Gaming Goes East

Callum Crumlish joins the computer gamers dropping in to Tobacco Dock East London has its fair share of cultural conventions, from foreign-food markets to comic...

Stories Of Summer

Hannah Blacklock says nothing’s tops the seasonal Shoreditch pop-up, Summer Tales. Summer Tales is back this May for all of your big kid, jungle-gym needs....

Trainer Takeover At Truman’s

Hannah Blacklock feels well-heeled at the Crepe City convention. Trainer connoisseurs from across the globe recently descended on The Old Truman Brewey for the 13th...

Farmed Out To Spitalfields

Hidden in the heart of East London is possibly the cutest community farm in the world. Spitalfields City Farm is just a short walk from...

Finger Lickin’ Street Chicken

Sold from the side of a converted US Army ambulance in Elys Yard at Truman Brewery, Mother Clucker chicken is mother clucking good.   Mother Clucker’s...

Look No Hands

Tom Hedley gets off on the DLR. We should be eternally grateful to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) for giving East London access to the...
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Stress In The City

Londoners are more anxious than the residents of any other city in the UK, a new report has found. The Annual Population Survey (APS) found...
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Stratford’s International Women

In celebration of international women’s day, women gathered at the Stratford campus of the University of East London for a conference led by ElevateHer,...

Top Five Things To Scoff At This Easter

While stuffing your face might sound like the perfect way to spend the Easter holiday, you won’t want to end up with a muffin...
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Trains And Stations Must Be Made Safe For Women

London’s transport chiefs should do more to prevent women being harassed on their way home, says Sian Killean. Using public transport is part of the...
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Crime Round-Up

Sabrina Ruffles collates the latest incidents. Charged with the murder of 15-year-old Joel Adesina, jobless George Phillips of Pitfield Street, Hoxton, pleaded not guilty when...
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‘How Easily Anti-Semitic Attitudes Can Erupt’

Anti -Semitic crime has hit an all-time high in the UK, according to a report by the Community Service Trust (CST), a charity set...
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East London In The News

Latest developments digested by Tamisha Thomas Tech City digital skills project to aid youth employment Tech City has announced new scheme running across Hackney, Tower Hamlets...
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Delicate, De-liteful, De-lovely

Listening to De Luna, you could have knocked Callum Crumlish down with a feather. As De Luna floated through their third song, 'Bones', a police...

First Look At Cutting Edge Film Festival

Katy Sharp-Watson previews the East London festival in which young film makers take centre stage. Cutting East, the youth wing of the East End Film...
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‘Right Pukka Service Running On All London Underground Lines’ – Danny Dyer

If you were travelling via Bromley-By-Bow London Underground station on 18th February you may have recognised a familiar voice making the announcements. EastEnders actor Danny...

Not Such A Grey Day

Perhaps the target audience was simply exhausted after all the exertions of Valentine's Day. Or maybe Fifty Shades of Grey is really a...
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Removing Labels Attached To The Headscarf

Schahrazade Halfaoui was among those celebrating World Hijab Day earlier this week. The first of February is World Hijab Day, initiated two years ago by Nazma...
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A Testing Kind Of Film-Fest

Katy-Sharp Watson previews a feminist film festival which puts rom-coms to the test. A new feminist film festival is holding its first event at the...
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Holocaust Posters Defaced

Sian Killean sees street-level evidence of anti-Jewish sentiment. Anti-Semitism returned to the streets of East London when posters across Newham promoting Holocaust Memorial Day were...
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Working On Behalf Of Muslims In Nigeria

Farida Ahmed reports on the Nigerian Muslims Forum. The Nigerian Muslims Forum recently held its annual general meeting in West Ham. It was announced that...
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Teenager Stabbed To Death

Sabrina Ruffles reports on a fatal street stabbing. Joel Adesina (15) from Dagenham was pronounced dead hours after being stabbed in the abdomen during a...
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Yuletide Staycation

Can’t face scrambling down Oxford Street? Who needs West London, anyway? Fear not, East London ladies and merrie gentlemen, our yard has more to...
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Playing About With Prices

Callum Crumlish misses out on Bethnal Green’s best buy. There’s a new pop-up shop in Bethnal Green – PlayStation '94 is timed to celebrate the...
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Gazing At Gaza

Katy Sharp-Watson previews the London Palestine Film Festival. For the tenth year in succession, the Barbican Arts Centre is hosting the London Palestine Film Festival....
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Scheming For Democracy

Sabrina Ruffles looks at both sides of the Young Mayor Scheme in Tower Hamlets. The scheme to elect next year’s Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets...
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Not Exactly Transcendental

Sian Killean warns not to expect too much of meditation class. I had been thinking about meditation for a long time. Is it really possible,...

Tower Hamlets Cup: building community cohesion

Miftaul Islam applauds kids’ football as a way to bring communities together. Wapping is a divided area, and the area's religious and ethnic divisions often...

River of Poppies, Tide of History

At the Tower of London, Azana Francis finds herself surrounded by poppies and people commemorating the outbreak of the First World War. Unless you’ve been...

Two Wounded, Residents In Fear After Shotgun Blast

Gary Otchere reports from the scene of a shooting. A single shotgun bullet wounded two youths in the Custom House area on Bonfire Night (5th...
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How To Be A Street-Artist In East London

Emma Rouillon advises wannabe artists who are aiming for street. Street-art is officially cool but there’s no need to wear black skinny jeans and sunglasses...

Super Market!

Low on prices and high on diversity – Sian Killean recommends Walthamstow street market. Having grown up in the area herself, my mother warned me...

The Fashion Future Is Independent

JD Tagle reports on the rise of independent fashion. ‘The bigger brands will always be there. But we wanted to do something different, something that...
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Dickensian Poverty On Hipster Street

Matthew Wright reports on rising poverty rates, not least in trendy Bethnal Green. In some parts of Tower Hamlets half the children are living in...

An Explosive Guide To East London’s Fireworks

Tom Hedley looks forward to the noisiest events of the year. East London is hosting an array of spectacular displays on a range of different...
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Kobane And The Kurds: here today, gone tomorrow

Schahrazade Halfaoui notes that Western political priorities are a fast-moving feast. As the saying goes, a week is a long time in politics. Just over a...

Faithful And Fashion Conscious

As a devout Muslim, Habiba Tasmin enjoys Hijab Fashion Week. Modelled on London Fashion Week, East London’s Hijab Fashion Week is now an established event...
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Two-And-A-Half Cheers For South Africa

Zaskia Delgado adds a rider to Stratford’s celebrations of the end of apartheid. ‘It’s like apartheid never existed.’ Stratford Circus has been hosting the Afro-Vibes festival,...
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A Ghoul’s Guide to Halloween

Tom Hedley previews the scariest places to celebrate the night of the living dead. Forget trick or treating, it’s time to do what we Londoners...
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Free To View In London Fields

Katy Sharp-Watson previews East London's alternative film festival. Admittedly, the BFI London Film Festival is the big one, with 248 films showing in 17 London...
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Making A Song And War Dance in Stratford Circus

Zaskia Delgado previews a new show about war journalism. ‘He’s a shy man who showed me some sad photos and told me what it was...
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Lengthening The School Day

Victor Aiwone heard mixed opinions on the proposed 10-hour day for school children. ‘It’s outrageous’. East London youth club worker Chris Porter reacted angrily to...
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There’s A Party In The House

Jean-Luc Peterson hears House stalwart Robert Owens in the basement of Dalston Superstore. Robert Owens is a vocalist and dj associated with the golden era...

‘The Worst We Have Played’ – Daggers’ Boss Wayne Burnett

Martin Voller hears the Dagenham & Redbridge manager let rip. His team may have picked up all three points against Wycombe Wanderers on Saturday 30th...

‘Sandwiches and Sympathy’ Are Not Enough

Sandra Amas Egbaran reports on National Carers’ Day in Greenwich. 'As long as the money’s not wasted on sandwiches and sympathy’. Carer and mother Zoe...

Twitter Mania As Passengers Told: ‘Get Off And Walk’

Martin Voller reports on a new episode in Greater Anglia's Comedy of Errors. Passengers tweeted that Greater Anglia is a ‘joke’ and a ‘disgrace’ yesterday,...

Lucky 13

Richard Sharpe celebrates UEL Journalism and Sports Journalism graduates gaining a professional award as well as their degrees. Thirteen recent graduates of the University of...

Lights, Tights and Economic Blight

Yasmin Khalil reports on a bright spot in Dagenham. With the drawn-out demise of British car manufacturing, the slow contraction of the once-vast Ford’s estate...

Dogs Under Attack?

Daiane Ribeiro reports on growing hostility towards 'man's best friend'. Labrador-owner Terry Davies was recently fined £50 for walking his dog without a leash. He...

Carrying Cole To Africa

Kerime John-Sankoh reports on the Cole family's charitable work ‘I came to Britain to give opportunities to my kids that I never had, so they...

Lucky Escape For Absent Minded Professor

George Sessions, Alina Choudry and Callum Hardy report With fire raging out-of-control only 20 yards from his office, a university lecturer carried on working for...