With the 2012 Olympics exactly a year away, many people are concerned over whether London’s struggling and congested underground network can handle the massive amount of extra passengers.

Victims of jewellery theft in the Lewisham area will now be able to search an online database of police photographs of stolen goods to identify their property.

After two failed lottery bids, Wilton’s music hall,  one of London’s last surviving music halls, has succeeded in raising enough money to begin a complete restoration.

Opponents of the controversial planned English Defence League march through Tower Hamlets in September are to stage a rally in Whitechapel on Friday.

Described as ”a post-apocalyptic world where only the artists survived” the Hackney WickED Arts Festival returns this weekend, for the fourth successive year. This years event, based around Hackney Wick and Fish Island, lasts from Friday to Sunday and features  exhilarating exhibitions portraying  the work of local artists – from pop up galleries to open studios and [...]

A planning application to run a school for  40 pupils in a Hackney terraced house has been granted by the council despite more than 25 letters of objection from neighbours.

Britain’s tallest residential building is to be built in Croydon following the local council’s granting of planning permission for the ambitious development. The 565 foot tall Morello Tower, dubbed a ‘Vertical Street’ is set to transform the area around East Croydon station. The building, conceived by renowned architect Ken Shuttleworth, who also designed the Gherkin [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp has been spotted filming scenes for his new movie Dark Shadows in Beckenham Place Park.

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