A new community radio station will launch at the exclusive Roxbury nightclub on Croydon High Street tomorrow.

Twenty-five years after Rupert Murdoch derecognised trade unions at News International, a newly created NUJ chapel is seeking legal action against parent company News Corporation in Wapping.

Cycling in London has grown exponentially over the last decade. There is a widespread desire to be fit and healthy, and with the prominence of the Tour de France and the crowning of road racing cyclist Mark Cavendish as the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, riding a bike has become a mainstream activity.

This cycle route will take you from Ladywell train station through Ladywell Fields, along the River Ravensbourne and all the way down to Cator Park in Bromley. We recommend this ride, which largely follows the Ravensbourne downstream and is interspersed by some lovely places to have a picnic or just lie on the grass on a [...]

This cycle route will take you from Ladywell train station through Ladywell Fields, along the river Ravensbourne and all the way down to Cator Park in Bromley. We highly recommend this ride, which largely follows the Ravensbourne downstream, interspersed by some lovely places to have a picnic or just lie on the grass on a [...]

On Hackney’s Woodberry Down estate, old grey Soviet style blocks mix with the brown brickwork characteristic of post-war council housing. But on the west side of Woodberry Grove, three bedroom flats are sold for £700k.

Figures released by UCAS today reveal a significant drop in university applications across east London boroughs, with applications from Hackney dropping a whopping 14.6 per cent. According to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), applications from Lewisham were down 11.8 per cent compared to last year, whilst Croydon experienced 9.3 per cent drop. In [...]

The media storm Hackney MP Diane Abbott caused last week as a result of her ‘divide and rule’ comment on Twitter is indicative of the ways in which Britain’s political elite is still able to turn issues of race and racism to its advantage and brush the lived reality of so many black Britons under [...]

Thousands of east London residents receiving housing benefit could be forced to choose between cutting food and transport bills to pay rent or leaving their homes in search of cheaper accommodation, research suggests. Findings by the Chartered Institute of Housing published this week show that cuts in Local Housing Allowance will mean that, for the first time [...]

Members of Occupy London have occupied an abandoned courthouse in Hackney to conduct “trials of the one per cent”. A small group of occupiers, including members of the Occupy Veterans, entered the building in the early hours of this morning. They were disturbed by a security guard in the empty police station adjacent to the court, [...]