Students from Goldsmiths in Lewisham and Queen Mary in Tower Hamlets gathered in central London for the fourth protest since the education cuts were announced, undeterred by the freezing weather. Though the protest was peaceful 153 people have been arrested since Tuesday night. 46 of those were made after protestors refused to leave Trafalgar square as [...]

Snow has hit London in an out of season cold snap bringing the earliest widespread snowfall of a British winter since 1993. As temperatures around the capital fell last week many local boroughs implemented severe weather precautions, such as gritting the roads and footpaths.

Sweaty garage rock, snarling vintage synthesizers, pitch-bending guitars and grating electro pulses abound at I ♥ East London. This rhythmic night of live music held on the first Thursday of every month on Whitechapel Road, spreads the passionate message that East London is an exciting place to be for creative music. Running the ground between [...]

A brand new Lomography shop for photography fetishists has opened in Shoreditch. The second London branch of the camera brand, which opened last night, is located just a stone’s throw from Spitalfields Market. The Lomography brand has captured the imagination of amateur and professional photographers across the globe.

As riot police held back a crowd of over 100 protesters outside Lewisham Town Hall last night, the Council pushed through the cuts package of £16m agreed at the Mayor and Cabinet meeting on 17 November. Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham, urged the Coalition government to ‘stop the onslaught on local services before it [...]

The family of murdered schoolboy Jimmy Mizen has opened a café on Hither Green Lane, Lewisham, in his memory. The Café of Good Hope, which was opened yesterday at 2pm, is owned by the Jimmy Mizen Foundation, a charity established by Jimmy’s family to commemorate his life. The building that houses the café is also [...]

Brockley residents worked together yesterday as they weeded and tidied flower beds in Brockley Common, a community garden in the area. The project was led by Brockley Cross Action Group, an organisation of local volunteers who have worked to improve the community and environment of Brockley Cross since its foundation in 2000.

Armed with banners, megaphones and placards over 2,000 women from across the country braved the freezing London streets yesterday and gathered for the “Reclaim the Night” march against male violence.

A recent sweep of small shops in Croydon by the trading standards team has found counterfeit business to be rampant and dangerous, with fake condoms and potentially toxic alcohol topping the list of goods seized. Trading standards manager, Alan Philips, said: “A lot of the items we have seized recently have been on sale in [...]

Council workers in Tower Hamlets have been told to brace themselves for redundancies as staff budgets are slashed by £29 million. Tower Hamlets Chief Executive Kevan Collins wrote to union leaders on Wednesday, warning that 500 jobs are under threat as the council responds to the “unpredecented financial challenge”.