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Opinion: Shock tactics needed for retirement saving

Businessman holding coins euro dollar cents counting money bills, making savings, accounting and man

Personal Finance | Promotion

Peter Sharkey

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Financial expert Peter Sharkey argues it’s unlikely that most youngsters will receive a state pension.
File photo dated 28/01/15 of David Amess attending the Paddy Power Political Book Awards at the BFI

Crime

'Utterly horrific': Tower Hamlets MPs react to Sir David Amess stabbing

Michael Cox

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Cllr Danny Hassell... on site where demolished lock-ups have made way for council housing

Tower Hamlets Council

Lock-up garage space in Spitalfields used for social housing

Mike Brooke

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Hero lifesavers... Pc Ryan McCarthy (left) and Pc Mabz Rahman

Metropolitan Police

Police officers save lives in two sperate emergencies on same shift

Mike Brooke

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TV's Huw Edwards announcing cash for St Matthew's

£18,000 awarded to Bethnal Green church to bring loo up to scratch

Mike Brooke

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Signage for the Department for Work & Pensions in Westminster. Photograph: Kirsty O'Connor/PA.

There With You This Winter

How much your area was given from government winter essentials fund

Andrew Brookes

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Foodbank stall in Cambridge Heath Road outside the Underground station entrance

Volunteers thanked for running East End food bank for 70 weeks

Mike Brooke

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Detectives have been granted more time to question three women arrested on suspicion of terror offen

Crime

14 charged with alleged drug dealing and money laundering offences

Andrew Brookes

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Night Tube

Transport for London

Night Tube services to resume on Central line

Sophie Cox

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Wayne Guba, co-founder of Docklands Victims Association

Pandemic hero helping Docklands IRA victims' families is struck by Covid

Mike Brooke

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Jailed... A12 subway sex predator Ali Husseini, 27, from Poplar

Prison sentence increased for 'violent and dangerous' man

Chantelle Billson

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19 arrested in Met Police raids

19 arrested and cash seized in East End dawn drug raids

Mike Brooke

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Campaign to stop smoking for 28 days... if you can

Lockdown has made people smoke more, say East End 'quit' campaigners

Mike Brooke

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Curry awards longlist announced

Food and Drink

Asian Curry Awards: Tower Hamlets eateries make longlist

Cash Boyle

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Some of the players in mixed teams for the tournament

Race hate in the East End gets shown 'red card' on the pitch

Mike Brooke

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LIFT event at Here East to encourage people into tech

How cross borough LIFT scheme is demystifying the tech sector

Julia Gregory, LDRS

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A children's play area in Ladywood, Birmingham which is one of the worst areas in the country for ch

Opinion

MP: 'Universal credit cut is morally indefensible and economic illiteracy'

Rushanara Ali MP, Bethnal Green and Bow

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Sir George Iacobescu... giant behind Canary Wharf

Community names five heroes for Freedom of Tower Hamlets 2021

Mike Brooke

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Insulate Britain protestors returned to the M25 this morning

Travel

Traffic near the Dartford Crossing builds as Insulate Britain block M25

Daniel Gayne

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Trophies for the East London community heroes awards winners. Picture: Rotary Club of Stratford

Community Heroes

Community heroes sought for Rotary Club award recognition

Sophie Cox

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A light display over the River Thames and fireworks on Tower Bridge in London, as London's normal Ne

Events

London's New Year's Eve fireworks extravaganza cancelled again

Joe Talora, LDRS

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The pipe burst on Manchester Road near George Green's School

Flooding

Isle of Dogs road floods for eighth time in six years

Alastair Lockhart, Local Democracy Reporter

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Victim Ranjith Kankanamalage

Tower hamlets killing: £20,000 reward offered as two men sought for queries

Nathalie Raffray

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Community Links HQ in Barking Road, Canning Town

There With You This Winter

Community Links builds community resilience ahead of 'tough winter'

Daniel Gayne

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Jack the Ripper East London Advertiser

Halloween

Seven spooky things to do in east London this Halloween

Ben Lynch

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Fireworks

Bonfire Night

Where to enjoy firework displays for bonfire night 2021

Ben Lynch

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The front of a terraced house in Grove Hill, South Woodford

Housing

The most expensive houses sold in your east London borough in August

Andrew Brookes

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Our campaign aims to help tackle fuel poverty in our communities this winter

Winter

There With You This Winter: 9 ways we'll be hit harder in the pocket

Caroline Thain

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Havering roads this week

Travel

Road and rail round-up: Beware of these disruptions next week

Jon King

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Helal Abbas... calls for head teacher at Ian Mikado to resign

Heritage

Ex-Tower Hamlets leader tells his experience of living in squats as a child

Stephanie Stapleton

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