Nick Clark, LDR Reporter

London

All Points East organisers apply to use Victoria Park for 75 days

AEG has run All Points East in Victoria Park annually since 2018, and launched LIDO festival there last year

9 Jun 2026
London

Plans to transform East London strip club into boutique hotel and pub

The Nags Head on Whitechapel Road has been operating as a strip club since 1980

8 Jun 2026
London

Newham Council evicts single mother after failing to charge her rent

Newham Council has admitted to ‘a number of failures’ in its handling of the case

5 Jun 2026
Property News

Tower Hamlets approves new block of flats with no affordable homes

The development will include one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom flats

4 Jun 2026
Property News

More than 2,100 new homes planned for East London shopping centre site

The council has long hoped to redevelop the Vicarage Field Shopping Centre site with previous plans falling through in 2022

4 Jun 2026
London

East London Muslim centre told to shut down over planning permission

Newham Council said the headquarters of the East Africa Muslim Cultural Group was ‘in use as an unauthorised community centre, including as a place of worship’

21 May 2026
London

Candidate suspended over antisemitic social posts elected to council

Abul Monsur was officially elected on behalf of the winning Aspire Party, but had been suspended from the party ahead of the election

10 May 2026
Politics

East London council candidate suspended over antisemitic posts

Facebook posts by Abul Monsur – a candidate in Lansbury ward, Poplar – included Holocaust denial and apparent approval of Adolf Hitler

2 May 2026
London

Huge new 1,600-home neighbourhood in east London gets green light

Major new development in Silvertown approved but developers face criticism over small percentage of affordable homes

29 Apr 2026
London

More than 900 student flats in east London get green light

The flats are planned for three tower blocks, two of 28 storeys and one 14 storeys high

3 Apr 2026
London

Council fails to collect £500k in tax 'due to cost of living crisis'

A report to council leaders this week says the collection rate is 0.5 per cent behind what it was last year

30 Mar 2026
London

Vision for 10,000 homes at London's Billingsgate Fish Market

Tower Hamlets says it’s working on plans to redevelop the site once the market moves to the Royal Docks in Newham

27 Mar 2026
London

China sent wine and biscuits to councillors in push for new embassy

Council turned down the controversial new embassy before it was given the green light by Government

9 Mar 2026
London

East London council misused £2m of government grant, councillors told

The grant from the Department of Health and Social Care was supposed to be spent on improving public health

13 Feb 2026
Council counter fraud and risk manager Kevin Key said the case involved “multiple” housing blocks. He said fraudlently let homes had been used for “anything you can think of that is linked to housing, tenancy fraud”.
London

Probe into council housing scandal 'points to mass organised fraud'

Police say ‘hundreds’ of Barking and Dagenham Council-owned homes could have been fraudlently let

17 Jan 2026
Tower Hamlets Town Hall
London

Police probing suspected fraud at Tower Hamlets council

The council says the alleged crimes date back to 2018 and that a police investigation is ongoing

29 Dec 2025
Tower Hamlets Town Hall
London

Major London council set for £19 million overspend

Borough mayor Lutfur Rahman told his cabinet: ‘you can’t live on handouts’

18 Dec 2025
London

Newham primary school to close due to lack of pupils as crisis grows

Newham Council says falling pupil numbers and a £1.1million budget deficit means it can’t afford to keep Calverton Primary School open

17 Dec 2025
London

'Vaccine fatigue' behind low jab uptake as super flu sweeps London

NHS London ‘pulling out all the stops’ to make sure people get the flu jab as hospitalisations surge

12 Dec 2025
 Roding Primary School Hewett Road
London

School site in east London to close amid capital's pupil exodus crisis

Primary school downsizes due to falling pupil numbers in latest development in London’s school closure crisis

12 Dec 2025
Politics

£22m 'black hole' in London council's finances sparks tax hike warning

Council leader says town hall’s situation is ‘incredibly difficult’

11 Dec 2025