Schools in South and East London are celebrating a second wave of exam success as GCSE exam results are published.

A man who sued a series of London councils for compensation after injuring himself falling over on pavements is to appear in court on fraud charges.

A former taxi driver from Stepney has appeared in court to admit the manslaughter of his 100-year-old mother earlier this year.

A Lewisham woman who sustained serious injuries after falling 30 feet from a balcony during a honeymoon in Greece will be able to fly home for treatment thanks to the donations of well-wishers.

Sixth-formers across South and East London have received their A and AS Level results – grades which will determine whether they can take up a place at their university of choice.

An assistant caretaker at a school in Tower Hamlets has been found guilty of possessing indecent images of children and perverting the course of justice after planting child pornography on a colleague’s laptop

A man from Catford has been convicted of the ‘brutal and pre-meditated’ murder of a prostitute at her home in Kentish Town last autumn.

A Brick Lane curry restaurant has been fined more than £16,000 after inspectors discovered serious food hygiene violations on its premises.

Tower Hamlets family with three children – one disabled – escaped unhurt after a firebomb attack on their home in the middle of the night. A neighbouring house was also shot at, in what detectives think was a related incident.

A couple who made more than a million pounds running a cluster of brothels exploiting vulnerable South East Asian women were yesterday sentenced total of five and a half years in prison by a judge at Croydon Crown Court.