Beekeepers and honey bee experts in East London Line Boroughs are on the front line of a national crisis in the insect’s population and doing everything they can to halt its decline. Bees are vital to pollination for the country’s multi-billion pound agricultural industries. At the same time an urban…
Stop Criminalising Hackney Youth, a campaigning group monitoring the policing of young people, is questioning the roll out of Metropolitan Police tasers in the Borough in the light of controversial incidents elsewhere of suspects being injured or dying during “taser arrests.” East London Lines reporter Saskia Black has been given…
Hidden between a set of railways lines in Bow is a small caravan site. Lisa, 25, stands in the door of her caravan: “Families in tower blocks wouldn’t want their kids growing up on this site. It’s the same with us; we wouldn’t want our kids growing up there”. Her…
As the Met Office predicts another chilly weekend ahead, thinking of novel ways to beat the cold can be tough. Layering on an extra jumper or two quickly gets stuffy, cranking up the thermostat may upset thrifty cohabitors, and staying in bed all day seems like a great idea until…
It’s cold. It’s Thursday night. And it’s time for some good Pakistani comfort food. Mmmm aloo ke parathay, pan-fried flatbread stuffed with potatoes, and chutney. The minute my friend and I pictured the crispy, flaky and ghee-splattered parathas, our mouths started to salivate. But the question was where to go.…
Games Makers Micky Stevenson and Tina Harding thought it would be great to bring together half a dozen Olympic volunteers over a Chinese meal – just as a way to keep in touch after the summer’s antics. They ended up hiring the Hilton London Metropole for the evening of February 2…
Twice a week in a sports centre in New Addington, approximately 20 women (and a couple of men) don hot-pants, leggings, personalised team t-shirts, with names such as Carnal Sanders, Daft Ada, T-Vexed and VikiSpeedia, to participate in a sport so brutal and fast-paced it’s rare to leave without a…
Tyrone has missed his train. Turning right out of Whitechapel station, it’s just a few steps to a branch of William Hill, one of seven gambling outlets on this short stretch of road. With time to kill, he’s put £20 on the snooker, and now stands in the dingy basement,…
Men’s fashion week saw London put tailoring back on the map. Emerging labels such as Craig Green, J.W. Anderson and agi & sam providing sharp tailoring, stinging colour palettes and innovation unlike any seen in the industry since the invention of the trouser suit. Fashion became a female domain in…
Ahead of the twelve-candidate Croydon North by-election on Thursday, sparked by the death of Malcolm Wicks MP, East London Lines visited the area to find out which issues are inspiring constituents to get out and vote, or not… Opposite Norwood Junction station, David and Phil stand outside The…
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