Parents  who are campaigning for a new secondary school in the Victoria Park area of Hackney have voiced their opposition  to  suggestions that a ‘free school’ could be established in the locality.

Brick Lane hosted the seventh annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair on Sunday 19th June 2011. Highlights included work by Damien Hurst, Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and Boot Fair regular Pam Hogg.

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, has attacked plans by the English Defence League to march through the borough in August.

In October last year, Joe Paraskeva, a 20-year-old bipolar sufferer was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and placed in the care of Homerton Hospital, in Hackney.

Croydon libraries could be sold to American company, Library Systems Services Inc which sets up libraries and offers space in them to Starbucks. The new move was revealed in a Sunday Express article which suggested that LSSI could: “Snap up 15 per cent of the market in the next five years.” Last week Croydon council [...]

Stoke Newington residents are to be consulted about plans for a Sainsbury’s supermarket just off Stoke Newington Church Street. The public exhibition of  the proposals  are  at Abney Public Hall, on  July 1 and 2.

SUNDAY – Fuse @ 93 Feet East MONDAY – Happy Hour Laughing Classes @ The Book Club TUESDAY – D&D Satellite @ Rich Mix WEDNESDAY – Great Taste Market @ Old Spitalfields Market THURSDAY – From The Tiger Who Came to Tea to Mog and Pink Rabbit @ V&A Museum of Childhood FRIDAY – Goldsmiths [...]

44 Frocks is to open a pop-up shop in Wapping at the end of the month. Managing director Laura Henson, is teaming up with a new business partner, Vicky Flores, who she met on Twitter, to open up a pop up boutique for a limited period of time at 29 Thomas More Street next to [...]

Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman announced this week that £165 million will be targeted on improving housing standards in the borough.

There was welcome news this week for staff and student parents at Goldsmiths as it was announced that the college nursery is to be rescued by a Student Union take-over.