Rachael Burford

The Mayor of London has approved a controversial £800million plan for a huge new housing and offices development on a derelict central railway goodsyard.

The Mayor of London has approved a controversial £800million plan for a huge new housing and offices development on a derelict central railway goodsyard.

The Mayor of London has approved a controversial £800million plan for a huge new housing and offices development on a derelict central railway goodsyard.

The council is set to help feed some 17,000 children at risk of going hungry over Christmas.

Tower Hamlets is seeing “significant” outbreaks of coronavirus in its most deprived areas and in student halls, the council has heard.

A Tower Hamlets councillor and Momentum’s former national treasurer has been suspended from the Labour party after a social media post was unearthed in which he said there was “no factual basis whatsoever for a Jewish race”.

A school staff member who has helped support pupils throughout the pandemic has spoken of the “devastating” impact lockdown has had on education.

Detectives are investigating after more than £73,000 was stolen from a Whitechapel school and the theft went unnoticed for months.

A shop selling subsidised surplus food to famililes in need has opened in Tower Hamlets.

Newham has the first London council to vow it will actively campaign to make misogyny a hate crime.