6 h. ago EastEnders icon Jessie Wallace stuns fans by getting to work in east London café

Fans of EastEnders - and more specifically, Jessie Wallace - were shocked to see the Kat Slater actress steaming up hot milk behind the counter of an East End cafe

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21 h. ago More than 94 per cent of Tower Hamlets students get place at preferred school

More than 94 per cent of Tower Hamlets students get place at preferred school  East London Advertiser

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21 h. ago The east London school hailed for its 'outstanding international outlook'

The east London school hailed for its 'outstanding international outlook'  This is Local London

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30 h. ago 'I went to a south east London fancy town that immerses you in its wild adventure'

'I went to a south east London fancy town that immerses you in its wild adventure'  News Shopper

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38 h. ago The disturbing case of a Tantric yoga guru and his followers

Under the guise of spiritual leadership, Gregorian Bivolaru allegedly exploited hundreds of people through an international network of yoga camps and retreats. Now he’s awaiting trial, accused of kidnap, trafficking and rape. Here, one of his victims reveals how she broke freeFrom the outside, Tara Yoga Centre looks like a normal, welcoming yoga studio. A pleasant building in an expensive east London postcode, with another popular branch on an Oxford high street. There are positive, even gushing, Google reviews. The website is professional, with photos of smiling people stretching on matching purple yoga mats. It promises “rapid and integral transformation”, as well as “an invitation to awaken now”.When Miranda, from Oxford – who has asked to go only by her first name – was in her late 20s, she visited India to practise yoga. It was 2015 and yoga was already a booming industry in the UK. She was working as an English teacher at a London school and gravitated to yoga for the same rea...

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60 h. ago Jack White review – rock’n’roll showman makes believers of us all

Troxy, London Touring his 2024 solo album No Name in a barnstorming gig, the former White Stripe plays fast and loose with the truth but is absolutely the real deal“Do you believe me yet?” yells Jack White from the lip of the stage, a few songs into his second night’s work at this classy art deco venue in east London. It’s a very Jack White kind of location: highly stylised, lovingly restored, but not entirely removed from its unglamorous surroundings.Lit in deep blue and strobing white, the colour palette of his solo career, White and his band have played tracks from his most recent album, the surprise-released No Name, first handed out free on white-label vinyl to unsuspecting shoppers at Third Man stores in Nashville, Detroit and London last summer (Third Man Records is White’s own imprint). It’s Rough on Rats (If You’re Asking) is a particularly rousing workout full of guitar shock and awe, from an album that has drawn relieved and delighted comparisons to White’s first band, th...

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61 h. ago UK's 'Ratland' town where residents 'ashamed' to live alongside 'dirty' vermin

Olivia Virag, 55, is 'ashamed' to call the East London town her home due to the mounds of litter left on the street - which has attracted rats that 'scurry around daily'

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3 d. ago On the Paris runway, Kenzo’s punk revival puts a British spin on streetwear

At Paris Fashion Week, Kenzo’s latest evolution trades its signature jungle prints for something sharper: punk-infused tailoring, underground energy, and a touch of British irreverence

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3 d. ago UK city pub fined over £20k for blasting out ‘loud pop music with a heavy bass'

An East London pub has been fined after noise complaints from a local, claiming there was 'loud pop music with a heavy bass' - council warnings were continuously ignored

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3 d. ago Wretch 32: ‘It’s a difficult ride for Black people in this country’

The north-east London rapper’s new album mines his family’s past and society’s present to explore what it means to call a place homeOver the past two decades, Wretch 32, real name Jermaine Scott, has established himself as a pioneering figure in British rap. From his rise in the underbellies of an early-millennium rap and grime scene, to his mainstream success and songs with the likes of Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sandé, Stormzy and Giggs, he is among the handful of UK rappers who have scaled the heights of the British music scene while maintaining a deep connection to their communities.At 39, Scott is ready to release his seventh album, Home?, a soul-searching record that reflects on his relationship with that word. “I feel like it always moves. I feel like it always changes,” he says of his relationship to “home”. “I’m still trying to put an exact location on it but as it stands it’s more who I’m with. I feel like I could make a home in any house.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Rogue landlords who crammed up to 23 people into two bed flat where man died in e

Father-of-two Mizanur Rahman, 41, died from the effects of smoke inhalation after the fire in the flat in Shadwell, east London

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4 d. ago Landlord duo learn fate after 'grossly overcrowded' London flat fire killed dad

Husband and wife landlords Sofina Begum and Aminur Rahman have been fined after a fatal fire at a home in east London, licensed for three people was found to have been occupied by 23

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5 d. ago Terrifying moment thug hurls seat from top floor of Westfield Stratford narrowly missing shoppers

Boys aged 14 and 16 held as viral video shows chair being dropped from third floor of shopping centre in east London

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5 d. ago A moment that changed me: I was 16, gay and bullied for it. Then my father wrote to the Guardian

Britain in the 90s seemed to see homosexuality as something shameful. My father told the world how proud he was of meGrowing up gay in the 90s was incredibly difficult. In 1998, I was 16 and living in east London, only out to my parents, my sister and a few friends I had made online. I’d already been the target of homophobic bullying and didn’t feel safe coming out to the rest of the world.I was lucky to live in a loving and supportive home. It was also a political household; my dad, in particular, was always active in expressing his beliefs and principles. Both my parents stood for things, cared about others – and they cared about me. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Moment heroic security guard confronts shoplifter trying to pinch two baskets full of wine in Tesco

This is the jaw-dropping moment a brave security guard launched himself at a shoplifter and grappled him to the ground after he attempted to steal wine from Tesco Express in Forest Gate, east London.

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6 d. ago Teenage ‘super scooter’ rider guilty of fatal shooting outside south London club

Shaquille Graham was shot dead outside a nightclub in south-east London last March

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6 d. ago The Rainham volcano: a waste dump is constantly on fire in east London. Why will no one stop it?

Under Arnolds Field, tonnes of illegally dumped waste have been burning for years, spewing pollution over the area. Locals fear for their health – and despair that no one seems willing to helpOne afternoon in July 2011, an 11-year-old boy named William Knowlden was out cycling with friends when he came upon Arnolds Field, an expanse of green land in Havering, east London. The site spans about 17 hectares, or 24 football pitches, and around its perimeter runs a wooden fence, with two access points through which vehicles can pass. Arnolds Field rises much higher than the surrounding land. Its surface is lumpy and undulating, like a blanket thrown over a heap of cuddly toys. The land is overgrown. It has been decades since animals grazed there, and few people have set foot on it in recent years. But every so often, it is mistaken for a safe place to explore.As Knowlden descended a hill, he lost control and was thrown over the handlebars. When he came to, he was lying in a small crater ...

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7 d. ago Gang carried out a £2.8m heist weeks before they shot the man behind Britain's biggest ever armed robbery in his luxury home, court hears

Convicted armed robber Paul Allen was paralysed for life after two bullets were fired through the kitchen window of his rented home in Woodford Green, East London, on July 11 2019.

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7 d. ago Teenage ‘super scooter’ rider guilty of fatal shooting outside club

Shaquille Graham was shot dead outside a nightclub in south-east London last March.

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7 d. ago Three men 'plotted to murder career criminal convicted of Britain's largest cash robbery' after 'snatching Ming dynasty antiques from Swiss museum'

Convicted armed robber Paul Allen was paralysed for life after two bullets were fired through the kitchen window of his rented home in Woodford Green, East London, on July 11 2019.

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