6 h. ago Sunniest spring on record could close with temperatures hitting 27C

The Met Office said 630 hours of sunshine were clocked up across the UK between March 1 and May 27.

Events

11 h. ago Asian restaurant in Poplar up for sale only four months after opening

Asian restaurant in Poplar up for sale only four months after opening  East London Advertiser

Politics

11 h. ago Investigation as east London grandmother found dead from painkiller overdose

Investigation as east London grandmother found dead from painkiller overdose  Newham Recorder

Events

12 h. ago Diller Scofidio + Renfro transforms London hangar into V&A East Storehouse

Diller Scofidio + Renfro transforms London hangar into V&A East Storehouse  Dezeen

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12 h. ago V&A east storehouse by DS+R opens in london, bringing museum storage into public view

V&A east storehouse by DS+R opens in london, bringing museum storage into public view  Designboom

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23 h. ago ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts• ‘Pop a masterpiece in your basket’: our art critic reviews the Storehouse‘We used to have something called social housing,” you will be able to tell your grandchildren, should you ever take them to V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new outpost in east London. High up in the atrium, at the centre of this huge open-access repository of 250,000 objects, hangs a chunk of Robin Hood Gardens, a brutalist council estate in nearby Poplar that was recently bulldozed to make way for less affordable housing. Deftly suspended from the gantry, the poignant fragment now seems as much a relic of a bygone age as the 15th-century Islamic dome from a Spanish palace that is displayed across the hall. The estate’s precast concrete panels have been reassembled with ju...

Events

30 h. ago Prolific teenage burglar jailed for over 50 crimes across east London and Essex

Prolific teenage burglar jailed for over 50 crimes across east London and Essex  Romford Recorder

Events

32 h. ago Uber has revealed plans to run trains to Europe from Stratford in east London

Uber has revealed plans to run trains to Europe from Stratford in east London  Time Out

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33 h. ago This east London borough is officially the city’s worst place for bicycle thefts

This east London borough is officially the city’s worst place for bicycle thefts  Time Out

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33 h. ago The East London Borough That Is The City’s Worst Place For Bicycle Thefts

The East London Borough That Is The City’s Worst Place For Bicycle Thefts  Time Out

Politics

36 h. ago UK's richest street outside of London where homes cost a staggering £8million

The UK's most expensive street outside of London has been revealed as East Road in Weybridge, Surrey, where houses cost an eye-watering £8 million on average

Economics

60 h. ago Serial killer's 'death bath' where six victims' bodies were brutally dismembered

John Childs, who called himself the 'East London Butcher', would shoot his victims before dismembering them in the bathtub of his flat in Poplar, with one victim being just 10 years old

Events

60 h. ago Thousands of east London families to receive school uniform grant

Tower Hamlets has set aside £3million over the next three years for the grants

Politics

64 h. ago East London man wins back ownership of farm after long legal battle

East London man wins back ownership of farm after long legal battle  Daily Maverick

Events

66 h. ago The hilarious results if south east London’s busiest roads had a personality

The hilarious results if south east London’s busiest roads had a personality  This Is Local London

Transport

3 d. ago East London gangsters sent drug addict into police station in hopeless ruse to get Nokia burner phone back

East London gangsters sent drug addict into police station in hopeless ruse to get Nokia burner phone back  MyLondon

Events

3 d. ago They knock on the door, claim to be cleaners then snatch jewellery worth thousands. Inside the Romanian gangs targeting London's most desirable homes

In a terraced street in the suburbs of East London a young couple were locked in a heated discussion. To those who overheard them, it would have sounded like a familiar argument.

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4 d. ago East London council unveils major changes to housing service saying 'we know we got this wrong'

East London council unveils major changes to housing service saying 'we know we got this wrong'  MyLondon

Politics

4 d. ago ‘We trusted them’: East End fishmongers take on the City to save ancient markets

Campaigners say permanent closure of Smithfield and Billingsgate will affect livelihoods and limit access to quality produceIt is a mismatched contest: a handful of east London fishmongers taking on the phenomenally wealthy City of London Corporation.But the market traders and a food poverty charity have teamed up to battle City of London Corporation over its plans to close the capital’s ancient fish and meat markets for good. Continue reading...

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5 d. 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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