Despite the efforts of local residents, there will be a basketball training venue built on Leyton Marsh pic: Ruth Edwards

Local residents have lost their battle with the Olympic Development Agency to stop the building of a basketball-training venue on Leyton Marsh. (more…)

Hackney residents at Leyton Marsh pic: Ruth Edwards

Local residents and councillors from Hackney are opposing an application by the Olympic Development Agency to build a temporary basketball-training venue on Leyton Marsh as they argue it will drastically effect the area. (more…)

pic: Soha Ibrahim

A park in Deptford has been christened as London’s Best New Public Space – its third prestigious award in the span of a year. (more…)

The Olympic Park, pic: EG Focus

London’s leading scientists have warned that high pollution levels in Hackney and Tower Hamlets could  jeopardize the health of Olympic competitors.

High pollution levels in the surrounding Olympic boroughs have become an increasing concern for competing athletes. (more…)

MacMillian Park, Pic; GLA

East London has once again been recognised for its contribution to making London a great place to live in, after scooping two awards in Tower Hamlets and Lewisham at the ninth annual London Planning Awards.

St Paul’s Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets and the Margaret McMillan Park in Lewisham were both awarded for their excellence in urban planning and design. (more…)

Pic: John Sutton

Local residents can recycle their Christmas trees this festive season from December 28 onwards.

Council recycling authorities for Hackney, Lewisham, Croydon and Tower Hamlets will be setting up recycling points and dates on which residents can give their real trees for reprocessing.

Lewisham Council residents are provided with 12 tree recycling points: Talbot Place (Blackheath), ​Hilly Fields Park, ​Forster Memorial Park (Whitefoot Lane), ​Deptford Park (Scawen Road), Northbrook Park (Baring Road), ​Chinbrook Meadows (Amblecote Road),  ​Manor House Gardens (Old Road), ​Mountsfield Park (George Lane), ​Telegraph Hill Park (Pepys & Kitto Road), ​Mayow Park (Mayow Road), ​Sydenham Wells Park (Wells Park Road) and ​Beckenham Place Park (Old Bromley Road). (more…)

Matthew Gonshaw's wild bird egg collection pic: The Metropolitan Police

A man from Tower Hamlets has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of rare bird eggs.

Matthew Gonshaw, 49 from Bow, was given a four month sentence after being charged with ten offences at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, including the theft and possession of golden eagle and osprey eggs.  (more…)

All of the organisation's trees are sustainably farmed pic: Brent Flanders

If you buy a Christmas tree from Caring Christmas Trees before Wednesday, you can help homeless people in Lewisham rebuild their lives. (more…)

Jon Snow and Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School students pic: The Otesha Project UK

Year nine girls from Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School launched a bid to be Tower Hamlets’ first official Fairtrade school after joining forces with local charity Otesha. (more…)

pic: Arusha Basu

Groups such as Greenpeace, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Green Party along with more than 800,000 members from Wildlife trusts slammed George Osborne’s autumn statement last month as a “backwards budget” and a “formula for failure.” (more…)