Home to actors, footballers, singers, and businessmen, the boroughs along the East London line are fuelled with fame and glamour. A number of locations within a stone’s throw of the stops have played host to celebrities’ birthplaces, school life, and early careers and ELL is here showing you just how many. Click on the interactive [...]
While many school children were last week relishing days off due to the snow, pupils from one Lewisham school were eager to return after a nine month absence.
Boroughs along the East London Line have launched a range of initiatives to reduce crime over the festive season. Hackney, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets, and Croydon are saying the new campaigns will ensure party- goers enjoy a safe Christmas.
A pregnant woman living in Hackney jumped to her death while clutching her baby after her benefits were stopped, an inquest heard last week.
An up-and-coming music artist from Tower Hamlets has been jailed for 14 years after conspiring to murder the 15-year-old mother of his unborn child. Brandon Jolie, 19, of Bow, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday along with Kingsley Ogundele, 19, of Romford, who was sentenced for 18 years.
Children were given the chance to grill the Lewisham police borough commander last week on issues they are most concerned about during a special show with an online community radio station. Reprezent, a not for profit organisation that trains young people in south London in online radio production and broadcasting, invited Chief Superintendent Jeremy Burton [...]
Fed up with fashion waste? Desperate to dress vintage? Then it’s about tie-m you shoe-t off to Prangsta Costumiers, a vintage costume hire shop on New Cross Road. Melanie Wilson, a fashion school graduate, founded the business in 1998 to rally against the fabric waste attributed to the fashion industry.
Boroughs along the East London line this week joined a worldwide campaign to end violence by men against women. Information stalls were set up in Lewisham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, and Croydon, to mark White Ribbon Day, which happens annually on 25 November.
Katie Price has backed a Croydon father’s fight against domestic violence at a book signing during a visit to the borough last week.
A convicted burglar from Croydon whose brother was murdered last year has been saved from deportation just hours before he was meant to fly home.
