Martin Powell-Davis: the man juggling politics and family
Martin Powell-Davis is the driving force of the Stop Academies in Lewisham campaign. He is also general secretary of the …
MA14Henderson Archive
Dalston Lane’s heritage reaches the end of an age
As London expands and property prices continue to rise, yet more costly private housing spills into the East End, but …
February 26, 2015/
Features, General Features/
ELL Guide to Christmas: Boozy beverages for Xmas
Who doesn’t love a cocktail and there’s no time better to get your fill than the most festive of holidays …
December 22, 2014/
Features/
ELL Guide to Christmas: our pick of the festive menus
This week, ELL recommends festive menus worthy of even the most hard to please food lovers, for Christmas Day lunch …
December 21, 2014/
What's On This Week/
What Christmas means to me: School teacher
Rosie Lonsdale, a secondary school teacher at St Matthew Academy, Blackheath, talks to reporter Emma Henderson about the festivities and …
December 11, 2014/
Features/
Man arrested in connection to late night rape
A man was arrested last night in connection with the violent rape of a young woman in Tower Hamlets on …
December 8, 2014/
Crime, News, Tower Hamlets/
ELL Guide to Christmas: Weekend activities
Despite the chill in the air, Christmas spirit is now in full flow and so are the abundance of activities, …
December 5, 2014/
Christmas, Features, Holiday Features/
Horniman Christmas Fair opens this weekend
The Horniman Museum is joining in on the festive fun by holding a Christmas Fair this weekend with plenty of activities …
December 4, 2014/
Christmas, Lewisham, Local News, News, Specials/
Coldplay ‘Ghost Stories’ in Shoreditch
Members of Coldplay will today be opening an exhibition in Shoreditch of artwork created for the cover of their latest …
December 3, 2014/
Arts, Hackney, Local News, Music, News/
New Cross Remembrance of World War II bombing
It was a typical Saturday morning at New Cross Road. Shoppers queued outside Woolworths following rumours that a …
December 2, 2014/
Lewisham/
Seas of red: what the poppies mean to me
Three members of my family saw action in two World Wars across two generations. One great grandfather was a driver …
November 25, 2014/
Features/
Primary school teacher killed while cycling home from work
A man was killed while cycling home from work last night by a suspected joyrider, making him the eleventh cyclist to …
November 25, 2014/
Tower Hamlets, Transport/
The clear-up begins: what do the Tower of London poppies mean to locals?
November 25, 2014/
Videos/
Pupils’ welfare “at serious risk” as Ofsted warns of radicalisation at seven Tower Hamlets schools
Serious concerns have today been raised about pupil safeguarding and Islamic education at seven Tower Hamlets faith schools after a …
November 21, 2014/
Education, Lead Stories/
Campaign to save borough’s school from academy status
Teachers and parents last week united to campaign in order to prevent Lewisham’s state schools becoming academies. “Stop Academies in …
CofE school faces criticism in Ofsted extremist report
A Church of England school has been accused of failing to safeguard children from extremism in a leaked Ofsted report, …
November 20, 2014/
Education, Tower Hamlets/
Grinling Gibbons is ranked top state primary in England
A Deptford primary school has been rated the number one state primary in England by The Sunday Times. The newspaper …
Six secondary schools under threat from privatisation
Six more schools in Lewisham are due to be turned into academies, a meeting of the local National Union of …
After three rejections, teacher sets up independent school
A teacher who had three proposals for a free school rejected by the Department for Education last year has acquired …
Teachers vote to strike despite new Ofsted report
Teachers in Lewisham have voted for further strike action despite the release of a report from education secretary, Nicky Morgan that …
November 5, 2014/
Education, Lewisham, Uncategorized/