16 h. ago Notting Hill Carnival fugitive found guilty of bus driver’s stab murder

Kamar Williams went on the run after the attack in Hackney, north-east London.

Transport

19 h. ago Young man stabbed to death outside Wetherspoons pub as punters try to save him

Police have launched a murder investigation after a 26-year-old was stabbed to death near The Kings Ford pub on Chingford Mount Road in East London on Sunday evening

Events

21 h. ago The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided

Vera; or, The Nihilists concerns a plot to kill a tsar but after Alexander II was assassinated, its London premiere was cancelled. Now receiving a rare production, it captures his conflict between ethics and aestheticsWho wrote the following: “When private property is abolished, there will be no necessity for crime”? In one of his plays the same writer has a female revolutionary cry: “How easy is it for a king to kill his people by thousands but we cannot rid ourselves of one crowned man in Europe.” If I reveal that the writer was a London-based Irishman, most people would assume it was Bernard Shaw. In fact, it was Oscar Wilde and, while the first quote comes from his essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism, the last is from his play Vera; or, The Nihilists which is to get a rare professional production at the Brockley Jack Studio theatre, south-east London, in September.The play itself is virtually unknown even to Wildean devotees. It was written in 1879 and loosely based on the sto...

Events

21 h. ago Chingford murder: Man stabbed to death on busy east London street

Despite the best efforts of the emergency services, a man died at the scene in north-east London on Sunday

Events

24 h. ago Love Island Casa Amor boy Cach is already huge TikTok star with connection to winner

Love Island's Cach is yet to make his villa debut but the professional dancer from East London already boosts over 740k followers on TikTok and is friends with some former Islanders

Politics

31 h. ago The moment desperate drivers  realise they've been snared by London's most

Greenwich Council are raking in £16,500 a day from fines dished out to locals who drive through camera enforced LTN roads in East Greenwich, south-east London.

Politics

41 h. ago 7/7 bombing 20 years on: What happened on morning that brought Middle East war to London

More than 52 people died and a further 770 people were injured when four British-born suicide bombers set off explosives across the London transport system during the morning peak hour, in Britain's deadliest terror attack

Events

51 h. ago From swim schools to eye clinics: how families of 7/7 victims used heartbreak to help others

Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives of thousands of children.Before the unit was established in 2008, according to its vice-chair, there was no dedicated children’s eye care centre in the entire eastern part of India, a country home to 20% of the world’s blind children. The clinic now sees about 3,000 children a month and performs 350 eye surgeries – a significant proportion of them at no cost to the often very poor families who need them. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago ‘We promised change but people aren’t feeling it yet’: Labour rues poor first year

MPs, aides and other party figures reflect on what went wrong and how they could still turn things aroundIn a stiflingly hot room at a health centre in East London, as he announced the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS on Thursday, Keir Starmer was confronted with a brutal assessment of his first year in power.“You’ve U-turned on your reforms, your MPs don’t trust you, and markets worry that you’ve lost resolve on fiscal discipline. It’s the epitome, isn’t it, of sticking-plaster politics and chaos that you promised voters you would end?” a television journalist asked. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago The crafted home: an east London temple to tiebacks, tassels and trims

The crafted home: an east London temple to tiebacks, tassels and trims  Financial Times

Politics

3 d. ago 'I'd long abandoned hot dogs but not now I've found this trendy gem'

'I'd long abandoned hot dogs but not now I've found this trendy gem'  East London Advertiser

Politics

3 d. ago You can have the chance to ride on vintage 1930s London tube carriages

You can have the chance to ride on vintage 1930s London tube carriages  East London Advertiser

Politics

3 d. ago More cash given for new south east London Overground station

More cash given for new south east London Overground station  News Shopper

Politics

3 d. ago Deliveroo and Uber Eats riders are being 'targeted' for vehicle theft, Met Police say

It comes amid a surge in vehicle thefts in London’s east end

Events

4 d. ago Moment police arrest county lines 'gang member' during dawn raid as they shut down 100 drugs networks in a week

This is the moment dozens of police officers smashed their way into the east London home of a suspected county lines criminal as they crackdown on 100 drug networks in a single week. 

Events

4 d. ago The 18 best reformer Pilates studios in London: South, West, East, North and Central

Whether you’re looking to practice with an A-list trainer or searching for the best prenatal classes, these are the top studios to know across the capital

Politics

4 d. ago Why Bromley deserves to be the happiest place to live in south east London

Why Bromley deserves to be the happiest place to live in south east London  This Is Local London

Politics

4 d. ago More than 100 public servants who died in service awarded Elizabeth Emblem

The award is the civilian equivalent of the Elizabeth Cross.

Events

4 d. ago Rachel Reeves smiles and laughs in show of unity with Keir Starmer after Commons tears

The Chancellor joined Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting in east London

Politics

5 d. ago Pensioner, 81, loses 'ridiculous' £280,000 neighbour row over 'inches' of land... after seven years of fighting

Christel Naish, 81, had complained that her neighbour Dr Jyotibala Patel's garden tap and pipe were 'trespassing' on her property in Ilford, east London.

Economics