A week of musical fervour was kicked off on Saturday, with a young man from Tower Hamlets among the 50 young musicians performing at the Busking Underground event.

Lewisham has celebrated the inauguration of its seventh Young Mayor, with Kieza Silveira De Sousa becoming the new voice for young people in the borough.

Students who avoided university over debt fears are given the opportunity to study at Goldsmiths, University of London through a scheme set up to remember the New Cross Fire victims.

The 14 young victims of the 1981 New Cross Fire are to be remembered this week, with a series of events marking the 30-year-anniversary of the tragedy.

The East End’s boxing history,  from the days of illegal fighting through to Olympic status, is to be celebrated in a new exhibition at Hackney Museum.

An Old Bailey jury has seen dramatic CCTV footage of a Lewisham schoolboy’s last moments, after he was stabbed in the heart by a gang of schoolchildren. Nicholas Pearton, 16, was stabbed in the back, piercing his heart, in Home Park, Sydenham, on May 5 last year. After staggering to a nearby restaurant seeking help, [...]

A Croydon conman who juggled several identities has been jailed after scamming 13 families of over £100,000 for luxury holiday villas which did not exist. Andrew Viscount Ryder, 47, of Essex Grove, Croydon, pled guilty at the Old Bailey to 13 offences of fraud by false representation, and was jailed for two years with a [...]

Police divers in Tower Hamlets are dredging a canal, after a tip-off that it may contain the gun used in a double murder five years ago. Jordan Jackson, 20, and Leyla Djemal-Northcott, 21, were killed when masked men burst into the flat in Menlo Gardens, Upper Norwood, on March 7, 2006, firing at least six [...]

An inner-city girls’ school in East London has welcomed the New Year by piloting a new mobile learning scheme, which could revolutionise the way knowledge is delivered in the classroom.

As 2011 rolls in, Lewisham residents are being offered the chance to “create the new you” by enrolling in laughter workshops and other adult education classes.