11 h. ago Your favourite podcast is now a video – but are vodcasts the future, or just ‘crap telly’?

Successful podcasters are filming their shows, putting traditional platforms under pressure. Does it add value or reflect YouTube’s increasing might?It is four in the afternoon at Pellicci’s, a family-run cafe on Bethnal Green Road in London that has been an East End institution for 125 years. Its famously loudmouthed owners, British-Italian siblings Nevio and Anna, have been serving fry-ups, soups, pasta and jam roly-polies since eight this morning. The cafe is now closed, but Anna and Nevio are just getting started on their second job as hosts of the podcast series Down the Caff, in which they interview people about food and life over a meal of the guest’s choosing. The conversations are sweary, chaotic and an absolute hoot.Their guests so far include actor and Pellicci’s regular Ray Winstone, Dexys’ Kevin Rowland, rapper Hak Baker and 86-year-old YouTuber Marge Keefe, AKA Grime Gran. Today’s interviewees are TikTok star John Fisher, AKA Big John, and his son, the boxer Johnny Fis...

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30 h. ago East London 'master forgers' who made £1 million supplying fake IDs to criminals jailed for six years

Bilal Iqbal and Ummad Ahmed sold more than 40,000 fake documents over an eight-year period

Economics

40 h. ago Pete Townshend remakes Quadrophenia for a new generation: ‘The world is a dangerous place at the moment’

It may be set 60 years ago, but a new ballet version of The Who’s rock opera asks questions about youth, society and masculinity that still resonate – and it brought its original creator to tearsDeckchairs fly, arms clash, bodies launch into the air as mods and rockers engage in a fierce Brighton seafront battle. But in this east London dance studio – with Zaha Hadid’s Olympic swimming pool visible through the window – young performers in sports socks, joggers and baggy T-shirts are reimagining the Who’s seminal document of the mid-60s Quadrophenia as ballet.Isn’t this 1973 album an unlikely subject for dance? We’ve recently had Black Sabbath: The Ballet, and Message in a Bottle set to Sting, so why not? After all, Quadrophenia is theatrical at its roots. “The closest thing to a grand opera I’ll ever write,” says the Who’s guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend. Set in 1965, the story of disaffected young mod Jimmy looking for meaning in life via music, amphetamines ...

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55 h. ago Boys aged 14 and 15 deny launching chair 50 feet off top floor of Westfield Stratford shopping centre in internet prank

The boys, aged 14 and 15, were arrested after a viral video showed the incident at Westfield, east London , on March 1, where a chair was thrown and narrowly missed shoppers walking below.

Economics

60 h. ago Hackney Half marathon in pictures as 25,000 people race through iconic streets

The Hackney Moves festival took place in east London at the weekend, with more than 60,000 people enjoying the event

Sport

60 h. ago Residents 'trapped in flats' for week after lifts at iconic East London towerblock breaks down

Tenants in Balfron Tower, including those with disabilities, have claimed they are living in a ‘death trap’

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61 h. ago Warning over chicken salad sold by major supermarket after woman finds COCKROACH

After tucking into her chicken ceasar salad meal, 23-year-old Amberleigh Webb from east London, said she saw the bug and 'screamed'.

Events

3 d. ago 'Millions of bees' leave residents 'trapped in homes' like 'something from a horror film'

Worcester residents are having to live with large swarms of bees for up to six months out the year as one homeowner described is as like something out of a horror film

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3 d. ago Fury as residents left 'trapped' in iconic London tower block after the lifts break for nearly a week

Those living on the top floor of the Grade II listed Balfron Tower have had to trek 84 metres up and down stairs - the height of 17 double-decker London buses - every time they need to leave their homes.

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3 d. ago Woman who used wigs and false papers to take UK citizenship tests jailed

Josephine Maurice, 61, appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London, via video link.

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3 d. ago Industrial balance of power tilts northward as London and the South East’s pricing crown slips

Industrial balance of power tilts northward as London and the South East’s pricing crown slips  CoStar

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3 d. ago Disabled people at iconic London tower 'trapped inhumanely inside' after lifts broke

Disabled people at iconic London tower 'trapped inhumanely inside' after lifts broke  Metro.co.uk

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3 d. ago Romanian national remanded in custody over fires at properties linked to Starmer

Romanian national Stanislav Carpiuc, 26, from Chadwell Heath, east London, appeared in court accused of arson with intent to endanger life.

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3 d. ago Toddler, two, dies after falling from height as police launch unexplained death investigation

Police and paramedics were called on Sunday to an address in Forest Hill, near Lewisham, south east London.

Events

3 d. ago Tragedy as toddler, 2, dies after 'falling from height' as investigation launched

The two-year-old boy died after falling from height in Forest Hill, south east London - he was treated at the scene but died in hospital a short time later, police said

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4 d. ago London leaver: Our Hastings restaurant dream would have been impossible at London prices

Kim Duke swapped south-east London for a new partner, home and career on the south coast

Politics

4 d. ago Man's body identified 10 years after he was hit by car yards from east London home

Bryan Woolis was hit by a Mercedes close to his home in Walthamstow in January 2015

Events

5 d. ago Top US supermodel stuns onlookers as she's spotted coming out of popular East London chicken shop Morley's

Top US supermodel stuns onlookers as she's spotted coming out of popular East London chicken shop Morley's  The Sun

Culture

6 d. ago Police release major update after five people stabbed at UK music event

The Metropolitan Police have made five arrests after five people were stabbed after a party in South East London in the early hours of this morning and were rushed to hospital

Events

6 d. ago Police arrest five wounded men in hospital after 'knife fight' at music event

Officers were called after reports of multiple injuries following a music event in the early hours of this morning at a commercial property in Nathan Way in Thamesmead, south east London.

Events