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A HUGE blaze which tore through a number of buildings this morning began in a Shoreditch restaurant, police say. Sosho Restaurant on Tabernacle Street was the starting point for the fire which needed 100 firefighters to get it under control after it bega... » MORE
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TRANSPORT bosses are being put on the spot over plans to shorten the route 25 bus when it switches from ‘bendy’ buses back to London’s famous double-deckers. Half the buses are to be turned round at Holborn instead of going on to Oxford Circus when the bendys are scrapped next year... » MORE
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A TALE of love and loss played out over the backdrop of the upheaval of wartime will be explored at an author event at Bethnal Green. The library in Cambridge Heath Road will play host to film producer and tv documentary maker Rosie Alison, whose debut... » MORE
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RESPECT has put up one of its strongest candidates for the local election in a different ward than expected. That's according to a Labour insider who claims a deal has been struck between Respect and Labour in Tower Hamlets.... » MORE
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THE minimum levels for neighbourhood police teams must be kept to maintain public confidence, the London Assembly has said. It has voted to urge Boris Johnson and the Met Commissioner to guarantee present levels will remain the minimum... » MORE
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A YOUNG cyclist who was killed in a collision with a tipper lorry has been named as Muhammed Haris Ahmed from Bethnal Green. The 21-year-old who lived in Bethnal Green Road was cycling in Weston Street in Southwark, near London Bridge, on Tuesday mornin... » MORE
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A MAN was due in court today in connection with Friday’s shooting in London’s East End. Benton Roper, 33, appeared in custody before Thames magistrates charged with the attempted murder of a 22-year-old man in Bromley-by-Bow and with possessing a firearm with intent... » MORE
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MORE than 100 firefighters from across east London have been battling a blaze in a Shoreditch restaurant and office block since the early hours of this morning. Flames tore through the four-storey block in Tabernacle Street, on the border between Shoredi... » MORE
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THE WHITECHAPEL Gallery is hosting the first UK solo exhibition of installation artist Rachel Harrison in a spring programme of shows unveiled today. The American artist combines objects she finds with construction work, photos, painting and moving ima... » MORE
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A STUDENT plunged more than 150ft to her death this week from an East End tower block. The woman, believed to be in her late 20s, plummeted 15 floors from... » MORE
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A SERIES of free guided health walks around the Lea Valley Park is being launched on Friday. The first walk starts at the Aberfeldy Neighbourhood Centre on Aberfeldy Street in Poplar at 10.30am Friday March 12 and lasts about an hour. The regular walks... » MORE
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SOCCER yob Richard Coffman has been jailed for 18 weeks and banned from football matches for six years for taking part in street clashes after a West Ham v Tottenham match. His conviction follows a large scale fight in London’s East End involving 100 fans in Mile End... » MORE
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TWO councillors have joined Respect after not being reselected for Labour.... » MORE
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RESIDENTS basking in the sunshine in Millwall Park had to make a quick escape on Sunday afternoon when a helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing. The pilot of the four-seater helicopter had to make the landing in the park on the Isle of Dog fo... » MORE
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THE European Parliament has voted to exempt struggling small businesses from producing onerous annual accounts. The amendment to EU company law would vastly reduce red tape for 90 per cent of the businesses registered in London... » MORE
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CAMPAIGNERS fighting to prevent a high-rise block of flats being built in a proposed conservation area along London’s oldest canal are unveiling plans to run a new waterbus service. Regular stops would include East London’s famous Stinkhouse Bridge, an art gallery, university campus, stadium and museum along the way... » MORE
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THE Government’s design watchdog has attacked a development in London’s East End on the banks of the Lea River because of its “disjointed layout.” Most future residents would overlook grid-locked traffic on the A12 and a supermarket rooftop, instead of the riverbank.... » MORE
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A FURIOUS row has blown up tonight over a statement to Crown Estate tenants in London promising they won’t lose their homes if the controversial plans to sell off the freehold go ahead. Critics say it hides new tenants being denied their security and empty properties being kept vacant for the big sell off... » MORE
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PHOTOS taken of East Enders women by young snappers are on display at an event celebrating International Women s Day. Photographers between 14 and 26 were set a challenge to photograph East End women for a competition coinciding with the 101 Internati... » MORE
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VOLUNTEERS are needed to help clean up tow paths in east London. Green charity Thames 21 is urging people to join in the clean up at Bow Locks on Sunday March 21. They will be able to learn how to make recycled planters as well as bird and bat boxes at t... » MORE
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Farming minsiter Jim Fitzpatrick has opened community centre costing £1.2million in the East End. The Poplar and Canning town MP met with residents in Shadwell as he opened the Tarling Community Centre on Martha Street last Friday.... » MORE
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DETECTIVES are appealing for witnesses following a murder in East London late Sunday night. Police were called at 10.25pm when a man was stabbed to death outside The Captain fish and chip shop at Walthamstow... » MORE
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WINDOW cleaners at Britain’s tallest building are being used in a national campaign to prevent accidents at work. The workers keeping the glass nice and shiny at London’s Canary Wharf tower are featured in a workplace campaign to tackle ‘slips, trips and falls’... » MORE
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MOTOR racing legend Stirling Moss is recovering in hospital after a 30ft fall down a lift shaft at his home. The retired Formula One champion was brought to the Royal London Hospital on Saturday after breaking both ankles and chipping his spine... » MORE
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POLICE last night issued an artist’s impression of a man whose body was found in the River Lea in East London two weeks before Christmas. They still haven’t been unable to identify him after 13 weeks and are appealing for public help to find out who he was.... » MORE
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A WOMAM Muslim councillor says death threats and sexual harassment calls has made her change the way she dresses and reconsider being in politics.... » MORE
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AN OUTBREAK of the winter vomiting bug has hit the Royal London with five hospital wards closed to new patients and sick visitors, it emerged this evening. Bosses at the hospital in Whitechapel have confirmed they are turning away new admissions from fiv... » MORE
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A 28-year-old man has appeared before magistrates today charged with the murder of a 37-year-old woman in East London. Rui Borges, of Cephas Avenue, Mile End, is charged with murder at an address in the same street on Friday. He was remanded in custody... » MORE
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TENANTS living in Crown Estates in East London have been given assurances that they won’t lose their homes if the controversial plans to sell off the freehold on the properties go ahead. Families in properties next to East London’s Victoria Park began a campaign in January to protect their homes... » MORE
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THE Tower Hamlets Tory party picked their parliamentary candidate yesterday who will be fighting for the Bethnal Green and Bow ward. Head of Community Affairs for the Canary Wharf Group Zakir Khan was selected by residents at an `open primary to compet... » MORE
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A PROJECT to encourage more children to cycle to school in London’s East End has picked up a top transport award.
Sustrans charity’s Bike It project in 21 Tower Hamlets schools won the ‘best cycling improvements’ title... » MORE
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A WOMAN is believed to have fallen from the 15th floor of a tower block on the Isle of Dogs. Police and ambulance crews are at the scene at Midship Point in Malabar Street, off Alpha Grove after they were called at 11.30am this morning. A spokesman for th... » MORE
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EAST ENDERS star Barbara Windsor joined survivors of the worst Second World War disaster at a memorial service yesterday. The soap actress was surrounded by survivor Alf Morris, 80, and pearly kings and queens, as she laid a wreath of flowers at an East End church.... » MORE
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TWO men were shot during a gun battle and high-speed chase through the East End on Friday night. Detectives from the Met s Operation Trident, the unit which deals with gun crime in the black community, are appealing for witnesses two motorbikes and a silv... » MORE
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PATIENTS with heart problems can now be monitored by specialists from the comfort of their own home thanks to life-saving technology pioneered by East End experts. Cardiac specialists from Barts and the London Trust, which runs the Royal London in Whit... » MORE
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ARTISTS and university professors are inviting the public to an open discussion on the future of the famous People’s Palace in London’s East End. The historic theatre in the Mile End Road hasn’t been used for regular public performances for 50 years... » MORE
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JILTED lover Paul Bristol has been convicted at the Old Bailey today of murdering his girlfriend in a frenzied knife attack after seeing her with her new boyfriend on Facebook. He flew across the Atlantic from Trinidad to try and win her back after his emails and text messages failed... » MORE
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A MULTI-MILLION pound revamp of the biggest housing estate in London s East End were given the green light last night.... » MORE
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THE OLYMPIC Stadium has today reached its full height as the first of 14 lighting towers was lifted into place.... » MORE
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STUDENT Michael Amaning has landed a role in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Dunsinane. The 20-year-old, in his first year studying BA Theatre Studies at the |University of East London plays one of the 12 soldiers and a Scottish Lord... » MORE
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LONDON’S Tobacco Dock venue has been fined for lack of safety training after a painter fell 12ft while working on a replica pirate ship... » MORE
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