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Customers told Nationwide is to close Bow branch

Road Road branch... closing down.

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Customers have been told their Nationwide building society branch is closing down in Bow after more than 40 years.
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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Trains now running on Elizabeth line

Trains being tested on Crossrail's Elizabeth line up to four an hour

Mike Brooke

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Floating through Canary Wharf... a bit of a dip in for office workers.

Hot tub and BBQ boats relaunched at Canary Wharf

Mike Brooke

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It's a dog's dinner... towering over the Thames on the high walkway.

Tower Bridge inviting mutts before Knight School dogs of war duel it out

Mike Brooke

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Optimistic jobs market report from KPMG's Canary Wharf HQ

Jobs boost as London creeps out of lockdown

Mike Brooke

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Street food fest planned at Blackwall's City Island complex with lockdown restrictions lifting.

Street food and farmers' market return to City Island

Mike Brooke

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Installing  Community Fibre cabling at Denning Point in Commercial Street on on the Holland Estate

Fast broadband deal is signed for thousands of East End homes

Mike Brooke

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Curator Kate Sumnall unveils rare Bronze Age terret ring used to prevent the reins from tangling on horse-drawn carts 

Bronze Age hoard to go on show after 3,000 years and an extra year's delay

Mike Brooke

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Eve Wagg, founder of Well Grounded barista training academy, with one of her trainees

Enterprise programme offers £20,000 for business ideas to help community

Mike Brooke

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One diner who didn't have to travel in Lockdown to get an Italian meal

How to get your own Italian chef to serve up on your doorstep

Mike Brooke

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Using public procurement powers to create sustainable community jobs 

'Real wage' jobs organisation receives Queen's Award

Mike Brooke

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Queen's Award to refugee charity

Charity which helps refugees find jobs gets Queen's Award

Mike Brooke

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Would you believe? The new-look for the old London Docks at Wapping

Housing

'Homes in the sky' go on sale in old London Docks for a cool £730,000

Mike Brooke

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Masks for extraordinary people...  Finlay Forbes-Gower (left) with charity founder Corinne McManus

Coronavirus

Extraordinary stitchers can’t ‘mask’ their success with Covid PPE

Mike Brooke

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Sadiq Khan with members of East End Trades Guild at Spitalfields City Farm.

East End traders urge Sadiq Khan to pledge to help them recover from Covid

Mike Brooke

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'Non-essential' shops reopening in Calvert Avenue say it's essential to delay rent rises

Lockdown Easing

Shops reopening after lockdown now fear council rent hikes

Mike Brooke

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End of the bread line... last few loaves before stocks run out

Shoppers queue for bread on opening weekend of new Wapping street market

Mike Brooke

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Traditional Brick Lane Jewish-style bagel, or beigel, packed with thick chunks of hot salt beef and mustard.

Brick Lane's famous bagel shop launches delivery service

Mike Brooke

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Oasis among the skyscrapers being towed into the old Millwall Docks

Canary Wharf floats idea for new green restaurant on water

Mike Brooke

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The old Begal Factory at Hackney Wick... turned into art deco studios to rent out.

Former Bagel Factory turned into creative studios to rent out

Mike Brooke

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Founder of Zirrø, Vincent Haye.

Shop Local

Delivery service helps local shops in Hackney, Islington and Tower Hamlets

Caitlin Tilley

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Michael Costello... now back on his pitch at Canary Wharf after 22 weeks

Lockdown Easing

The Big Issue vendors return to the streets as lockdown eases

Mike Brooke

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Pauline Forster welcoming regulars back to The George Tavern in Commercial Road

Lockdown Easing

Beer gardens reopening with face masks, sanitisers and cobblestones 

Mike Brooke

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Small businesses like this Whitechapel bakery struggling during Lockdown

Shop Local

Small independent traders call for support when lockdown lifts

Mike Brooke

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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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New high-tech sensors being installed to keep DLR stations like Canary Wharf functioning better

Tech to give 'early warning' of breakdowns on DLR's lifts and escalators

Mike Brooke

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Disco in shipping containers? 

Works starts on possible scrapyard disco by the River Lea

Mike Brooke

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