Deprivation, joblessness and child poverty: these are three issues for which Tower Hamlets is notorious.

Workers went without showers, punters peered through closed shop windows, and lunchers went hungry in Shoreditch yesterday as a seven-hour power cut plunged part of East London into darkness.

A Hackney nightclub that has earned an international reputation among clubbers is facing the threat of closure because of police concerns about noise, drug abuse and misuse of its drinks license.

Pulling back a thick curtain made up of hundreds of hanging threads, this is what the casual exhibition-goer will see: a slender young woman, dressed in an elegant floor-length gown with a sumptuous furry collar, diligently wrapping a long spool of yarn around a perspex cube. As they pull back the layers of threads to [...]

Tower Hamlets has joined neighbouring borough Redbridge in opposing expansion of London City Airport. The move, which was made to restrict noise disturbance to those living on noisy flight paths in Poplar, Bow, and the Isle of Dogs, came after a council vote last Wednesday.

In a damning indictment of its patient care, Lewisham Hospital was rated the worst in London this week. The Dr Foster Hospital Guide, produced by a private-public partnership company linked to the NHS, gave Lewisham the third worst score out of all trusts in the country: just 3.43 out of 100.

What do Reiki, cake-baking, and 80s-style cocktail bars have in common? These were some of the ways local organisations showed their support for World Aids Day this Tuesday.

Plans to dramatically reduce outpatient appointments in a multi-million pound cost-cutting proposal are set to provoke anger and controversy in the East End. Some 21 members of the Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts for north-east London, including representatives from Tower Hamlets and Hackney, voted unanimously on Tuesday evening to launch a 13-week consultation into [...]

This Friday marks the last chance for the public to object to plans to demolish popular Hoxton bar The Foundry.