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Opposing 'privatisation of NHS by stealth'

Apsana Begum MP, Poplar and Limehouse

NHS | Opinion

Apsana Begum MP, Poplar and Limehouse

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Health services should be publicly funded and delivered as that will ensure the best standard of care, greater accountability and better health outcomes.
A scene we haven't seen in Shoreditch since last year about to resume at Boxpark

Boxpark reopening in Shoreditch with face masks and Covid hygiene measures

Mike Brooke

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Prince Philip behind the Queen visiting Mayflower School in Poplar in 2017

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East End pays tribute to Prince Philip

Mike Brooke

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Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive for their visit to Broadway Theatre in Barking.

Prince Philip | Gallery

Pictures: Remembering Prince Philip's visits to east London

Michael Cox

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Prince Philip. Picture: Matthew Usher.

Royal Family

Prince Philip dies aged 99

Eleanor Pringle

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Lewis Lloyd... 27-year-old drug-dealer jailed after ramming police cars to escape

Crime

Jailed: drug dealer who rammed police with stolen car to escape

Mike Brooke

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This week's The New Normal podcast: Pubs, FIFA and Northern Ireland

Matt Withers

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Union recognition protest against Amazon staged at St Mary-atte-Stratford church in the Bow Road  

'Blow the whistle on Amazon pay and conditions,' protesters urge

Mike Brooke

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Food being prepared in the Grocers’ Livery kitchen  

Top chefs turn culinary skills to feed needy families in east London

Mike Brooke

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The Liberal Democrats' Luisa Porritt

Elections

London mayor election: Lib Dems' Luisa Porritt on liberty and LTNs

André Langlois

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Families prepare for demo in Watney Market against service charge rises

Housing

Housing protest at Shadwell's Watney Market over service charges hike

Mike Brooke

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London mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan

London mayoral election: Sadiq Khan on LTNs, green jobs and policing

Michael Boniface

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Small businesses like this Whitechapel bakery struggling during Lockdown

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Small independent traders call for support when lockdown lifts

Mike Brooke

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Eugen Maersk docks at Felixstowe

How containers turned the tide on the Thames as world's busiest port

Mike Brooke

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Crime

Woman from Limehouse charged after Kill the Bill protest

Jon King

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A couple from Newham cooling off with some ice cream

Gallery

PICTURES: People enjoy new 'rule of six' at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Franki Berry

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High Commissioner Saida Muna Tasneem calls for wider celebration of Bangladesh 50th anniversary

Women's Safety | Opinion

Unmesh Desai: British Bangladeshi community is important part of the...

Unmesh Desai AM, City and East London

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Getting in on the ground floor buying a house in east London where people stay the longest

Housing

Here's why people stay longer in the East End despite the crime

Mike Brooke

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This week's The New Normal podcast: A year of Keir

Matt Withers

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Blazing railway arch at Bromley-by-Bow

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Fire crews fight blaze in railway arch in Bow

Mike Brooke

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The message from Unite trade union beamed onto Parliament

Hotline for workers set up amid Amazon union recognition dispute

Mike Brooke

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Dominique Murphy-DeNeef.

Coronavirus

Covid-19: What's opening and what can you do on April 12?

Adriana Elgueta

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Some of the companies investigated were still providing services to the council, the tribunal heard.

Councillors vote for a 'well above inflation' £300 a year pay rise

Franki Berry

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Dancers at new and spacious centre at City Island

London City Island's new ballet centre named after Ballymore chairman

Mike Brooke

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The canalside blaze some time in the 1970s 

Do you remember this blazing inferno on the Regent's Canal?

Mike Brooke

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Herts Advertiser reporter Franki Berry sits down with The Zombies at the Clarion Hotel in St Albans

Opinion

New editor calls for your views on this paper

Franki Berry

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Activities like this at St Margaret's House could help Covid recovery

Café could be set up in east London to deal with long-Covid

Mike Brooke

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London Fields Lido. Picture: Richard Dawson/ Hackney Council

Coronavirus

Covid-19: What can you now do with lockdown eased from March 29?

Holly Chant

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Gin distillery makes history with its Covid sanitisers. 

Gin makers in deal to exhibit Covid sanitisers at Museum of London

Mike Brooke

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Spiked... why this Tower Hamlets councillor is barred from a walk along the river

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Petition launched to open up the Thames for a walk on the river side

Mike Brooke

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