Emergency talks between finance officers from Croydon Council and the UK Border Agency took place last week after cuts to funding for unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC).

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Nahimul Islam has beaten 18 other candidates to be elected as the new youth mayor of Tower Hamlets. Nahimul, 15, from Raine’s Foundation School in Bethnal Green, polled 2,004 votes in the election by the borough’s school children.

The new East London Line extension will open in spring, not in February as has been claimed on some council websites. A spokesman for Transport for London (TfL) confirmed the extension will be running “sometime in the spring”, which is later than Hackney Council website’s estimate but still well ahead of the project’s original summer [...]

Students and academics are being asked to sign a petition to protest against the end of the post-study work visa for non-EU residents.

Gingerline is a new pop-up restaurant concept, taking place in a different venue along the East London Line once a month.

The Broadway Theatre has offered its stage to young children from primary and secondary schools in Lewisham. The performers impressed everyone with a special show in honour of victims of the Holocaust.

The River Thames in East London forms part of the busiest stretch of water for lifeboat rescues in the United Kingdom, according to data released yesterday by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

800 council jobs are to be slashed in Hackney according to new trade union estimates but Hackney Council has dismissed the claim as “speculation”. The GMB union has warned that 800 Hackney Council jobs are at risk, after looking at the number of notices sent to council employees telling them they may be made redundant. [...]

Boris Johnson has joined a chorus of disapproval at the use of King’s Stairs Gardens in Rotherhithe for the main shaft site for a ‘super sewer’ under the Thames.