Student volunteers have picked up paintbrushes and revamped a Whitechapel community centre.

MPs opposing the Brussels Brexit deal joined campaigners converging on east London for today’s rally at the Excel centre calling for a People’s Vote on the controversial agreement being debated in Parliament on Tuesday.

Thousands campaigners are converging on east London this afternoon for a rally calling for a People’s Vote on Brexit ahead of Tuesday’s crucial vote in Parliament.

Volunteers have been rolling their sleeves up giving Whitechapel’s Brady centre a ‘sound’ new lick of paint to bring it up to scratch.

The family of a mother-of-two who has been missing for seven months has pleaded for help to find her.

The DLR is back up and running after the entire line went down this morning.

A shake up of the borough’s constituencies is not in the best interest of communities, MP Rushanara Ali has claimed.

Sixty firefighters are tackling a blaze at an industrial estate in Canning Town.

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Six people have appeared at Thames Magistrates Court including a teenager from East Ham and two women following a series of drug raids targeting a suspected ‘county line’ supply network to Suffolk.

Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has welcomed Theresa May’s £400m pledge to replace dangerous cladding on tower blocks owned by councils and housing associations, with lips sealed on his own council’s spending.

A statue displaying the names of some of east London’s lesser known women’s rights campaigners was unveiled in Parliament Square this morning.

Transport for London has issued travel advice ahead of the London Marathon with four days of strikes set to hit the Docklands Light Railway.

Apprenticeships are being offered on the building sites in Whitechapel, Canary Wharf and Canning Town for on-the-job training for careers in construction.

London City Airport is running as normal despite DLR strikes, Transport for London have announced.

Despite strike action on the Docklands Light Railway, servies are still running between London City Airport and Canning Town and Beckton and Poplar.

Boxing legend Frank Bruno received a warm welcome when he paid a visit to a kebab shop in Stepney Green.

An artist who is creating artwork spanning the trackside wall of the Elizabeth Line is appealing for stories from Newham’s people.

The first Crossrail train went along the Elizabeth line last night as engineers tested a section of the tracks, travelling from Abbey Wood to Connaught Tunnel.

The names of some of east London’s lesser-known campaigners in the suffrage movement have been included on a statue marking the centenary of the Representation of the People Act.