As the proud media partner of the Stoke Newington Literary Festival we are in the extremely fortunate position to offer a great prize. The festival includes names such as Alexei Sayle, David Walliams, Johann Hari and many, many more… For the full programme see here. ELL has got TWO VIP passes for the whole of [...]

Rowland Rivron was a stalwart of the 1980s alternative comedy scene who went on to craft a wonderfully varied

John Terry has stepped in to save Senrab, his boyhood football team, after a campaign to keep it afloat. The financial plight of Senrab was first highlighted by ELL in 2009, after an interview with club secretary Tony Carroll.

    Yesterday David Cameron attacked immigrants into Britain for failing to learn English:

The cuts have formed the backbone to much of the coverage on ELL throughout the past six months and have been at in the forefront of most people’s minds across the boroughs for the same period. We have covered cuts protests in the four boroughs as well as the big anti-cuts demonstration. We have covered [...]

In the third of our series looking at how cuts will affect the boroughs, funding for the teaching of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) is put under the microscope. Given the diverse nature of the communities along the line, the teaching of English to speakers of other lanuages is an important tool which [...]

In the second of our series looking at how the cuts will affect those across the boroughs, ELL investigates how childcare provision will change. A recent survey of Children’s Centre managers carried out by the Daycare Trust and 4Children, a national charity for children and families, found that in the next 12 months: 250 centres (7 [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people descended on the centre of London last Saturday for the TUC ‘March for the Alternative’, in a largely peaceful protest  against government cuts to public services. However, there were late clashes in Trafalgar Square between a minority of demonstrators and police, that lasted until early this morning as protestors were [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people descended on the centre of London yesterday for the TUC ‘March for the Alternative’, in a largely peaceful protest  against government cuts to public services. However, there were late clashes in Trafalgar Square between a minority of demonstrators and police, that lasted until early this morning as protestors were “contained”. [...]

A 14-year-old girl is in a critical condition in hospital after being struck by a car in a hit and run incident.