The privatisation of healthcare in east London amounts to “grand larceny”, George Galloway claimed on Wednesday.

Hollywood heavyweight Clint Eastwood was spotted in Spitalfields this week, filming scenes for new supernatural thriller Hereafter.

Tower Hamlets and Hackney have the highest rates of housing benefit claimants in the country, it emerged this week.

Children turned out in their hundreds on Wednesday for the Royal London Hospital’s second ever pathology open day.

Campaigners in Hackney staged a demonstration yesterday evening in a last-ditch effort to stop the privatisation of the borough’s family doctor surgeries.