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Extra, Extra

Image by M@. Southbank Centre and Waterloo station denied listed status. Lutfur Rahman ejected as Labour candidate for Tower Hamlets mayoral election by the party. Brixton bus depot goes up in flames. Vans/minibuses get reprieve from emission zone till 2012. Non-controversial new portrait of queen …

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This Event Is Cancelled, Courtesy Of Tower Hamlets

Looks like bad news for all those into their funky house and dirty pop, if this poster on Old Ford Road is anything to judge by. The ‘new era of club culture’ in the East End, with “massive DJ’s/PA’s” (sic) every Friday night, has been …

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Fox Beaten To Death In Victoria Park

Police in Tower Hamlets have begun an investigation after a video that appears to show a masked gang beating a fox to death was posted online. The clip, which was briefly available on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook before being deleted, shows the drugged animal being …

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Preview: Spitalfields Music Summer Festival

Christ Church by Matt From London Spitalfields Music started as a small classical music festival in Christ Church, east London, 1976. In the following three decades, the festival became an annual Winter and Summer Festival covering other genres, including events, workshops and participation across Tower …

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Victoria Parks Wins Lottery Money For Revamp

Tower Hamlets council has been successful in its application for a Lottery grant for Victoria Park, meaning that the planned £12 million regeneration of the east end greenspot will go ahead in time for the Olympics. The pockets of Britain’s legion Saturday night scratchcard addicts …

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Setback For Brick Lane Arches

A short notice on Tower Hamlets council’s website reveals that, “due to the large amount of public interest”, the planning application for the Islamic-flavoured arches at either end of Brick Lane has been temporarily withdrawn. The council, which was recently the subject of a Dispatches …

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Brick Lane Sculpture Not Popular With Locals

The “hijab gates” planned for the north and south end of Brick Lane have attracted 158 letters of complaint from local residents, and not a single missive of support, according to a report by Tower Hamlets council. Blithely ignoring these sentiments, TH are pressing ahead …

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Criticism Over Planned Islamic Sculpture For Brick Lane

Photo / Tanya N A plan to build a hijab-inspired gateway at the entrance to Brick Lane has upset local residents and the Spitalfields Trust. Tower Hamlets council is eager to increase the number of tourists (for which, read: richer folk) who pass through the …

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Have Your Say On The Future Of Victoria Park

Being one of the key routes toward the Stratford site, Victoria Park is due for a £12 million refurbishment ahead of the 2012 Olympics. As revealed earlier in the year, the plans include giving the current facilities a bit of a spruce-up, while some of …

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Extra, Extra

Thames Water have won the right to keep on increasing our water bills. There’ll be some muttering mandarins this evening with the announcement that they are to be scattered to the regions. The O2 is soon to be alive to the sound of…Julie Andrews. The …

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How’s Swine Flu Doing In London?

Photo by Herschell Hershey from the Londonist Flickr pool Swine flu is starting to creep back into the news agenda, as London apparently has more severely ill patients than anywhere else in the country (though note the final line of the Standard’s story: we have …