Under the arrangements set by the previous Labour administration, there is no requirement — and has been no discussion — about applying the council’s Climate Action Plan to the redevelopment of the ...

Andy Burnham “gets it” when it comes to devolving power to mayors and ensuring London’s success will benefit the whole UK, Sir Sadiq Khan has said. However the Mayor of London says he won’t be afraid ...

Around 70 firefighters and ten fire engines were called to a hotel fire on Amhurst Road yesterday afternoon, in an incident that forced the evacuation of 16 people but no injuries were reported. The ...

Homerton hit its four-hour A&E target this year — but the four-hour target itself has been accused of steering hospitals towards the patients who are easiest to treat, while the sickest wait longest ...

Ishaque Ali. Photograph: supplied by Ansar Ahmed Ullah. The racist murder of Altab Ali in May 1978 is widely recognised as a turning point for the Bengali community in East London ...

Hackney has joined Tower Hamlets and Lewisham in a legal challenge against the Mayor of London over his decision to cut the capital’s affordable housing target from 35 to 20 per cent. The three ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah recovers it ...

Stephen McKay. Hackney Council bought 43 homes for temporary accommodation over two years without recording whether anyone was living in t ...

The council is one of a dozen London authorities buying up properties for emergency housing with no knowledge of whether tenants were evicted to make way for the sales, an investigation has found ...

Speaking to the LDRS, Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Leader of the Labour Opposition, said: “Thank you to all those who voted Labour on what was the hottest day of the year. We came close to winning in ...

Cllr Jacob Cable (Green), newly-elected NLWA chair, with Cllr Madeline Church (Green) from Enfield and Cllr Peter Zinkin (Conservative) from Barnet who were elected as Vice-Chairs. Photograph: NLWA ...

Tower Hamlets Council has launched a competition for residents to win free VIP tickets to August’s All Points East festival in Victoria Park, despite the fact that planning permission for the event ...