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ELL’s guide to recycling your festive season waste

ELL’s guide to recycling your festive season waste

When all the festive fun has been had, and you’re surrounded by torn wrapping paper, leftovers and a slightly sad looking Christmas tree, you’ll need to start working out how to get rid of it all (if only to make room for all the glass recycling that New Year’s Eve…

Merry Christmas to all our readers from the ELL team

Merry Christmas to all our readers from the ELL team

The Eastlondonlines team would like wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas, thank you for following the site this year. We will be taking some down time over Christmas so we can fill our bellies with mince pies and mulled mine with family and friends. We will be back…

ELL’s guide to festive travel across the boroughs

ELL’s guide to festive travel across the boroughs

For another year running public transport will be free on New Years Eve, but there will be plenty of disruption for the rest of the festive season. Eastlondonlines brings you a day-by-day breakdown of how to move around our boroughs this winterval. December 24: - Tubes will run a Saturday…

Christmas medical care across the boroughs

Christmas medical care across the boroughs

If you run into trouble over the festive period and it is not a trip to A&E that you need, don’t panic:…

Exclusive ELL interview with Santa Claus: “I know immediately if you are on the naughty list”

Exclusive ELL interview with Santa Claus: “I know immediately if you are on the naughty list”

Eastlondonlines headed over to Canary Wharf this week to check out the Museum of the Docklands’ Victorian Christmas grotto and visit that chubby, jolly man in red. The one who knows if you have been naughty or nice –  Santa Claus himself – took a moment out of his busy…

Deck the halls with boughs of folly: Christmas in A & E

Deck the halls with boughs of folly: Christmas in A & E

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house”… people were drinking, naturally. It can hardly come as a surprise that the festive period is Britain’s most alcohol-fuelled month. With a subtle blend of office parties, family dinners and catching up with friends all mixed with a good measure…

How to help the homeless this Christmas: ELL’s guide to volunteering at soup kitchens and shelters

How to help the homeless this Christmas: ELL’s guide to volunteering at soup kitchens and shelters

It’s hard to estimate exactly how many people will be spending this Christmas sleeping on the streets. The latest figures produced by Broadway, a London homelessness charity, show that 1,920 rough sleepers were seen by homeless services in the capital between September and October 2012, a rise of over a…

The unwanted Olympic legacy: local traders still suffering from Games downturn hope for Christmas boost

The unwanted Olympic legacy: local traders still suffering from Games downturn hope for Christmas boost

With only a week to go until Christmas, businesses across Hackney and Tower Hamlets are relying on festive sales to make up for a loss in custom of up to 70 per cent during this summer’s Olympic Games, a study by Eastlondonlines shows. ELL approached nearly 60 randomly selected high…

Countdown to Christmas: What’s open Christmas Day

Countdown to Christmas: What’s open Christmas Day

Looking for a place to eat, do some last minute Christmas grocery shopping or get in a festive pint? It’s not too late to go out- not everything is closed on December 25, and ELL has got the rundown of the best pubs, restaurants and shops open on Christmas Day.…

Countdown to Christmas: ELL’s guide to giving ethically

Countdown to Christmas: ELL’s guide to giving ethically

Christmas is a time for giving, which can make it easy to overlook where we do our getting. However, ethical consumerism can come into its own during the festive season. Gifts which have been carefully considered can mean so much more than something picked up at the last minute. With…

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