Eastlondonlines is now taking a break over Christmas and we will return early in the New Year.

We would like to say thank you to all our readers for following Eastlondonlines over the year and to wish you all a happy festive season and a prosperous New Year.

Until we return, we would like to extend seasonal greetings to the press offices at Lewisham, Croydon, Tower Hamlets and Hackney councils, to the police and local charities, voluntary organisations and all the people and organisations who have helped us report your news over the last 12 months.

We look forward very much to the New Year, to reaching out to as many people as possible so we can hear and tell your stories back to the world.

See you in 2020.

The Eastlondonlines team