Tackling gun and knife crime is an important issue in all the ELL boroughs, particularly the need to engage with young people about the dangers of carrying a weapon.

People up and down the East London Line are getting ready to protest against the impending cuts, as the coalition prepares to release its Comprehensive Spending Review tomorrow.

A Croydon man, who is accused of murdering both his parents, told his mother he loved her moments before stabbing her to death, the Old Bailey heard today.

Bus workers in Hackney are striking for a second day at the Ashgrove bus depot in a dispute over low pay.

Firefighters across the East London Lines area will take strike action on two days at the end of October and beginning of November, it was announced today. The strikes will take place from 10am to 6pm on October 23rd and November 1st and are likely to be strongly supported. Members of the Fire Brigades Union [...]

Sam Hallam’s murder conviction is re-opened but the news is over-shadowed by his father’s suicide

The battle to save the name of the CLR James Library in Dalston has been won.

Brockley Common is being transformed from a “weedy wasteland” into a beautiful community garden in time for spring. The Brockley Cross Action Group (BXAG) have been preparing the ground and cleaning up the common next to Brockley train station, ready for the main planting works which will start in April.

A teenager has been sentenced to life imprisonment for stabbing the manager of a Matalan store during a failed robbery attempt.

A human rights lawyer who was stabbed to death at his Lewisham home is suspected to have been murdered for his political views.