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The weightlifting club, thought to be London’s oldest, has produced Paralympic champions but now faces eviction. A weightlifting club in

Mildmay Mission Hospital: The history of a former cottage hospital delivering compassionate care one crisis at a time

Set up as a Christian mission in 1866, Mildmay Hospital has specialised in helping those facing the greatest stigmas in

Censorers and pearl-clutchers beware – Scarlett Letters is bringing radical voices to the high street and a determination to survive

The courts have ruled that Tower Hamlets’ LTN removal was lawful, raising questions about what is required of councils who

The three local LTNs had stayed in place pending the outcome of a legal battle which has been brewing since

With a new campaign gathering speed to save one of Bethnal Green’s most original venues, the club’s fate is not

From the unsung heroes of the Mildmay Mission Hospital to the history of the Spitalfields Silk Weavers, the Overground’s newly

The SOSS campaign against the council’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods has hit a bump in the road as the court case

Storm Simon, a homeless care leaver has been aged by struggles most of us never encounter, but her youth and

After years of clashes and controversy, Save our Safer Streets is confident in a win after their High Court case

Just as the bleak streets of New York inspired the birth of street photography in the early twentieth century, the

‘I like the fact that sketches from life have an authenticity and are affected by everything going on in the