Local residents and councillors from Hackney are opposing an application by the Olympic Development Agency (ODA) to build a temporary basketball-training venue on Leyton Marsh as they argue it will drastically effect the area.

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Both our local teams in action last night dropped points in vital league matches in the Championship.

This week EastLondonLines reported on proposals for an 18-storey tower block on Kingsland High Street. We visited the area to find out what people who live and work in the area think of the planning application and what they see as the impact it will have on the area.

Business executives’ pay was under scrutiny today as Vince Cable proposed new powers for shareholders.

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A Tower Hamlets resident has launched a local branch of the national political group, Somali Friends of Labour, in preparation for the 2014 Tower Hamlets council elections.

If you’ve been feeling down this week, well you’re not the only one – it started officially with ‘Blue Monday’.

Tower Hamlets is suffering from the one of the highest levels of unemployment in the country. Unemployment has reached 13.2 per cent in the borough, making it the third highest of all the London Boroughs and fifth out of 415 regions and local authorities in the UK. According to a report released today by the [...]

Hackney actor, Idris Elba, won the top American accolade for his detective role in the television Drama series ‘Luther’. Elba, who plays the eponymous detective, won the award for Best Actor in a television series.