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Course launched on how to trade on East End street markets

Schoolchildren from Bethnal Green's Virginia Primary learn about running a market stool in Petticoat Lane 

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The course teaches setting up and running a market business, working with seasoned stallholders as mentors.
Senior active couple running, walking and talking in the park. Healthy lifestyle

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Personal finance: What price do you put on contentment?

Peter Sharkey

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English National's City Island ballet rehearsal centred tops architects' list 

City Island's new ballet centre named London's 'best building'

Mike Brooke

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Portrait of senior tourist couple in town using a map. Mature man and woman using map while sightsee

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Opinion: More people expected to choose retirement after pandemic

Peter Sharkey

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Skyscraper student accommodation at Canary Wharf

Planning and Development

Plans for 1,700 student bed scheme at Canary Wharf get go-ahead

Mike Brooke

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Young family couple talking with property real estate agent about home loan contract purchase agreem

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Could equity release solve the problem of interest-only mortgages?

Peter Sharkey

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Chloe (left) and Abigail 'designer twins' move in on London's creative scene

Twins open Whitechapel design studio

Mike Brooke

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Hand-crafted pizza with a taste of Italy’s Emilia Romagna region

Food and Drink

New Italian restaurant coming to Wood Wharf

Mike Brooke

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Man playing piano

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Opinion: How to save 'little and often'

Charles Bliss

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Guy Ritchie filming 'Sherlock Holmes' on the Thames

Why Netflix could soon be filming blockbusters on the River Thames

Mike Brooke

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Former Broadwood piano works being turned into student accommodation

Planning and Development

Plans to turn former Broadwood piano works into Hackney Wick 'student city'

Mike Brooke

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Indoor shot of young European Caucasian girl looking at financial documents at home with deeply bore

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Opinion: Research is important to your investment portfolio

Peter Sharkey

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The infamous Lord Napier pub  in Hackney Wick, known for its graffiti-clad walls, will reopen its doors this August.

Summer in the City

Legendary east London graffiti pub to reopen after 26 years

Holly Chant

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Two More Years restaurant and bar overlooks the River Lea. 

Summer in the City

Hackney Wick bar and restaurant opens with Two More Years to go

Holly Chant

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A new high-tech bingo club in Hackney.

From Shoreditch to Las Vegas: New bingo hall for Hackney

Holly Chant

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An adult hipster son with glasses and senior father indoors at home, hugging.

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Opinion: Simple planning could help save money on Inheritance Tax

Peter Sharkey

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11 different caviars on the shelves for the everyday East End shopper

Want some caviar? Shop to 'demystify' fine foods to open in Bethnal Green

Mike Brooke

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German Doner Kebab signs lease to open in Cabot Place early August. 

German Doner Kebab restaurant to open in Canary Wharf

Mike Brooke

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Aged couple signing and filling documents at home

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Opinion: Is the pension ‘triple lock’ under threat?

Peter Sharkey

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Landlady Melise Keogh meets Coca-Cola marketing experts at Roman Road's Angel & Crown pub

How East End's Angel & Crown pub got shot in the arm from Coca-Cola

Mike Brooke

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Osborn Street which could soon be renamed... where new Hilton Hotel is being built 

Work begins on new Hilton Hotel to open in Whitechapel

Mike Brooke

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Brodie Meah and Max Venning planning to expand into Bethnal Green

Bethnal Green wine bar to open where bottles can be 'grabbed from shelves'

Mike Brooke

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Praying for inspiration... co-working at Plexal's Olympic Park innovations centre

Enterprise boom as start-ups join Olympic legacy 'innovation' centre

Mike Brooke

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Santander

Santander 'to close' Harold Hill and Dagenham branches

William Mata

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Communal lounge at Empress Coachworks luxury housing complex

Housing

New homes in Bethnal Green sold by Zoom tours during Covid

Mike Brooke

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Fatima Targa meets Cllr Motin Uz-Zaman at her Targa Green café in Bow

Fund opens to help East End traders back on their feet after Covid

Mike Brooke

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Road Road branch... closing down.

Customers told Nationwide is to close Bow branch

Mike Brooke

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Regional media company Archant has a range of opportunities across the country

Archant announces major recruitment drive

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Rollo... now selling produce from Spitalfields city farm 

Deal made to sell Spitalfields Farm produce online

Mike Brooke

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Mum's day out on the Thames with the kids. 

Thames river bus trips return for half-term

Mike Brooke

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