Nick Clark, LDR Reporter
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
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
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
Tower Hamlets approves new block of flats with no affordable homes
The development will include one-bedroom, two-bedroom and three-bedroom flats
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
Major London council set for £19 million overspend
Borough mayor Lutfur Rahman told his cabinet: ‘you can’t live on handouts’
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
'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
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
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£22m 'black hole' in London council's finances sparks tax hike warning
Council leader says town hall’s situation is ‘incredibly difficult’