Top Boy, the four-part Channel 4 series that has stirred controversy surrounding its representation of black gang culture in Hackney, starts tonight at 10pm.

International engineering conglomerate Siemens, has recently announced the name of its new landmark centre of urban sustainability, which is being constructed in East London. The new eye-catching structure was christened ‘The Crystal’ at the high level ‘topping out’ ceremony that took place in East London last Wednesday the 26th of October. The Crystal was designed [...]

Social networking has uncovered a number of incidences of indecent exposure in the Brockley and New Cross areas over the last few months.

The Jewish Maternity Hospital in Whitechapel, known as Mother Levy’s”, is to be demolished and replaced by a five-story housing development.  It is the East End’s last surviving Jewish hospital.

Thousands of people in Hackney will lose out on free legal advice and representation due to government cuts, East London Lines has learned.

City of London police raided a tent outside St. Paul’s Cathedral on Thursday, after receiving an anonymous tip off that weapons were being stored there. The tent, occupied by people from the Kurdish communities of Hackney, Stoke Newington and Croydon, has been at St. Paul’s for one week. The police later gave a statement saying: [...]

Already have your spooktacular costumes ready but not quite sure how to celebrate Halloween with your loved ones?

Bailiffs armed with axes forced their way through three layers of metal barricades to evict squatters from a grade II listed building in Shoreditch this morning.

The local community in Hackney are raising money to send a cherished local resident home to visit his parents for the first time in 54 years.

Police investigating a fatal stabbing in Hackney have arrested a man in connection with the murder.