8 h. ago Fire crews race to huge blaze at Glasgow recycling plant as explosions heard

Fire crews have raced to the plant on London Road in Helenslea, in the east end, after the inferno broke out at around 7.20pm on Wednesday.

Events

15 h. ago Man with mental health needs 'left without basic facilities' by east London council for a year

Newham Council was ordered to pay the man £1,000 for the ‘distress and uncertainty’ caused

Politics

17 h. ago Train passengers’ contact details and journey information accessed in cyber hack

Train operator LNER said it is ‘treating this matter with the highest priority’.

Technology

36 h. ago Thousands protest against presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair

Thousands protest against presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair  Middle East Eye

Politics

38 h. ago Hundreds protest against presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair

Hundreds protest against presence of Israeli companies at London arms fair  Middle East Eye

Politics

39 h. ago Three arrested after protest outside defence event in east London

Three arrested after protest outside defence event in east London  ITVX

Events

39 h. ago Police make more arrests in east London council housing fraud investigation

Four people have now been arrested in major police operation targeting housing fraud in East London

Events

42 h. ago Man forced to sleep in his car for a year after east London council fails to find him housing

The man, known as Mr X, was attacked several times after ending up on the streets

Events

44 h. ago Moment 'prolific fare dodger' is snared after 'racking up £3,000 in unpaid train tickets by using scam card to make more than 400 journeys'

Investigators working for Transport for London stopped the woman at Ilford station on the Elizabeth line in East London after tracking her journeys for weeks.

Economics

61 h. ago Boy, 16, charged with attempted murder following arson attack in east London

Three 16-year-old boys have been arrested in connection with the suspected arson attack

Events

3 d. ago 'Cash for council houses scam' busted: Two 'corrupt housing officers' at Labour authority are arrested after 'taking bungs to allocating hundreds of properties'

The corrupt housing officers allegedly demanded cash for properties before wrongly issuing hundreds of social homes in the east London borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Society

3 d. ago Almost 900 arrested at Palestine Action demonstration in London, police say

Almost 900 arrested at Palestine Action demonstration in London, police say  Middle East Eye

Events

4 d. ago Global Day of Action: Over 300,000 march in London to demand justice for Gaza

Global Day of Action: Over 300,000 march in London to demand justice for Gaza  Middle East Monitor

Politics

4 d. ago Arrests made at demonstration against Palestine Action proscription in London

Arrests made at demonstration against Palestine Action proscription in London  Middle East Eye

Events

4 d. ago The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other German rebels who defied the Nazis

From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatically betrayed. What made them risk it all?I grew up in a house where nothing German was allowed. No Siemens dishwasher or Krups coffee machine in the kitchen, no Volkswagen, Audi or Mercedes in the driveway. The edict came from my mother. She was not a Holocaust survivor, though she had felt the breath of the Shoah on her neck. She was just eight years old on 27 March 1945, when her own mother was killed by the last German V-2 rocket of the war to fall on London, a bomb that flattened a corner of the East End, killing 134 people, almost all of them Jews. One way or another, the blast radius of that explosion would encompass the rest of my mother’s life and much of mine.Of course, she knew that the bomb that fell on Hughes Mansions had not picked out that particular building deliberat...

Politics

4 d. ago ‘Corrupt' housing officers suspected of fraudulently allocating hundreds of east London council homes for cash

Police make arrests amid investigation into four-year east London housing 'scam'

Society

5 d. ago Two arrests after 'several hundred' council homes fraudulently allocated at East London council

Two arrests after 'several hundred' council homes fraudulently allocated at East London council  My London

Society

5 d. ago Murder arrest after two women die five months apart in London

The 40-year-old was first arrested on suspicion of murder on April 1 after Carmenza Trujillo, 53, died in the Aylesbury Estate, south-east London.

Events

5 d. ago Elementary teacher accused of sexually assaulting student at east

Elementary teacher accused of sexually assaulting student at east-London school  CBC

Society

5 d. ago 'Corrupt' housing officers suspected of huge east London council homes scam

'Corrupt' housing officers suspected of huge east London council homes scam  London Evening Standard

Society