This week’s forecast predicts a warm, sunny weekend for London – so enjoy the summer sunshine and some great events this week with our pick of the best on offer in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Croydon and Lewisham. Friday August 17: Lunchtime concert in Hoxton Square Shoreditch Fringe Festival Come down…
Travellers on overground trains, travelling between Hackney and Stratford have been pleasantly surprised by magicians performing card tricks, hired to spread the ‘spirit’ of the Games. Magic on the Overground has been a success not only for Olympic organisers but also for the magicians themselves. Happy commuters have showed their…
There are only two days left to experience the Deptford X Contemporary Arts Festival in Lewisham before it finishes for the year. On Sunday August 12, the annual festival, which covers an art trail from west to east London through New Cross and Creekside, will come to a close after…
A Croydon man has been jailed for six years for attempting to smuggle £35,000 worth of cocaine into the UK through Gatwick Airport. Mark Richard Nelson, 48, a musician from Russell Hill Place, Purley, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on Thursday August 2 after admitting to importing a controlled…
One year on from the riots in Croydon, London Road is a very different place. Of the shops that were damaged, half have been demolished and not replaced with anything as yet. Of the other half, most of those are now being run by new owners or are vacant and…
Tower Hamlets has seen the largest increase in population in the United Kingdom according to the Census data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Monday’s Census release by the ONS has shown that Tower Hamlets and Newham have seen the largest population increase by percentage of all areas – whether…
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