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Fears from local businesses that the new Sainsbury’s in Wapping Lane will kill off the traditional high street

One year after Sainsbury’s opened in Wapping Lane, residents and organisations say the high street is barely hanging on and

The first extensive photobook by legendary riot photographer David Hoffman shows the hard and soft sides of daily life in

The Council has announced the official times and rules of the new refuse collection service that will collect rubbish twice

A Freedom of Information inquiry found that the council had the fourth-highest unused funding amounts from housing development projects. Six

Pensioners on the street are confused about the scheme that promises 5,000 pensioners living in the borough a one-off payment

Weathering incendiary bombs, a flood of bobbies and a cut-throat recession The Peacock Pub has outlived even its street name.

The plans by the NHS property service were drawn up alongside Barts Health and the Queen Mary University of London,

Tower Hamlets’ largest trade union suspects its pension fund supports companies linked to the Israeli government’s occupation of Gaza, and

The proposed redevelopment of 1-2 Minster Court has brought up concerns that the Tower of London World Heritage Site could

Post-war Prime Minister Clement Attlee saw Stepney as his spiritual home and his horror at the squalor in the East