The number of people relying on donations to foodbanks has increased 170 per cent in the last year, as 60,000 families are expected to visit foodbanks for their Christmas meal. The Hackney foodbank, in Dalston, provides emergency food and support to locals in crisis, including a food distribution service at three…
A rescued telephone box in Brockley has re-opened its door as a community book exchange. Open 24/7, and free for all to use, the mini-library was launched last Saturday at an event hosted by the Brockley Society, a community charity for Telegraph Hill and New Cross. Sebastian Handley, local resident…
Criticism from local artists has forced Tower Hamlets council to admit a recent literary festival they hosted failed to ensure sufficient representation of the area’s various ethnic groups. There was disappointment at the inclusion of only two non-white artists in a programme of more than 30 at The Write Idea…
Alfred Hitchcock has been named alongside clergymen and pubs on a shortlist of Tower Hamlets people and places for commemorative plaques across the borough. This week the council announced the 17 names drawn from public nominations that have made the final list for the People’s Plaque Scheme, an initiative aimed…
Mayor Boris Johnson today unveiled plans to build up to 1,500 new affordable homes in the area occupied by the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. A total of 6,800 homes will be built across the park in five new housing villages. The developer, Taylor Wimpey, will start initial construction of…
An angry customer’s hilarious online rant has pushed supermarket giant Tesco into taking action, raising the dismal standards of a Tesco express on Kingsland Road in Haggerston. Hackney resident James Allan, 30, started the Tumblr photoblog Worst Place On Earth at 1am this Tuesday morning, simply out of sheer frustration at…
Proposals for the construction of a 56-metre tower on Bethnal Green Road has been criticised by a community group which claims it fails to meet the mixed housing needs of the Tower Hamlets population. “Stop the Bulk,” a campaign initiated by the Jago Action Group, a community organisation of residents…
Former Sutton United footballer Robbie Hughes has been told that he must wait a year for the retrial of the attackers who left him brain-damaged after an attack in Malia five years ago. Hughes, 32 from Wallington, Croydon, was assaulted by four British men outside a nightclub on the Greek…
A man has been arrested after the death of a 20-year-old woman who fell from a black BMW in Croydon on Monday night. The woman suffered head injuries in the incident, which occured in Dunsfold Way in New Addington during the evening. An ambulance was called to an address in…
Former Shoreditch Club promoter Chris McGuigan, who has multiple sclerosis, has donated a cheque worth £2,000 pounds to Bow-based, disability rehabilitation centre, Ability Bow. The cheque was handed over to Director of Ability Bow Victoria Kent, in a ceremony at the premises yesterday. The donation was funded by profits from the…
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