Photograph: Bets Off Blackstock / LDRS. Deputy prime minister David Lammy has come out against plans for a 24-hour adult ...

Under the arrangements set by the previous Labour administration, there is no requirement — and has been no discussion — about applying the council’s Climate Action Plan to the redevelopment of the ...

Andy Burnham “gets it” when it comes to devolving power to mayors and ensuring London’s success will benefit the whole UK, Sir Sadiq Khan has said. However the Mayor of London says he won’t be afraid ...

Around 70 firefighters and ten fire engines were called to a hotel fire on Amhurst Road yesterday afternoon, in an incident that forced the evacuation of 16 people but no injuries were reported. The ...

Ishaque Ali. Photograph: supplied by Ansar Ahmed Ullah. The racist murder of Altab Ali in May 1978 is widely recognised as a turning point for the Bengali community in East London ...

Homerton hit its four-hour A&E target this year — but the four-hour target itself has been accused of steering hospitals towards the patients who are easiest to treat, while the sickest wait longest.

Ansar Ahmed Ullah recovers it ...

The Green party has held the Hackney Central ward seat in a by-election triggered by one of the party’s councillors resigning shortly after the May elections. The party’s candidate Noah Birksted-Breen ...