It was with great pleasure that I took part in the Lord Mayor’s Show on Saturday, on board the Epping Forest float.

An environmental group has warned that a proposed datacentre on Havering's green belt would set a “dangerous precedent”.  

Barking's Christmas tree lights will be switched on at the end of a festive day of events in the town next month.

A pub in Welling will be launching a free soup kitchen to give back to the community despite the ongoing cost-of-living crisis.

The winner of Dartford Borough Council’s Christmas colouring competition will help to switch on Christmas lights with stars from the Orchard Theatre pantomime on Saturday (November 19).

Sue Barker, 66, has been at the forefront of the BBC’s tennis coverage for three decades.

Children In Need's Spotacular campaign is raising funds to help tackle the effects the cost-of-living crisis is having on children and young people.

Pudsey returns to our screens for the 2022 live appeal show. Here's everything to know about the country's beloved bear.

From the contemporary to the modern, from the extravagant to the moderate yet indulgent, here are the best Christmas hampers by London retailers.

From the loud and raucous to the less loud and raucous, here are the best pubs, spots and big screens to watch the World Cup in London... 

General release tickets to see the much-loved contemporary artist, writer and broadcaster Grayson Perry when he comes to London as part of his 2023 UK tour will go on sale Friday, November 17.

‘Stay single and drink doubles’ is the laconic advice of Bohemian anti-heroine, Her, in Joe White’s brave play about alcohol addiction.

Betelgeuse, a star 764 times the size of the sun, is in the last stage of its life.  The great star is only 10 million years old is at a milestone of its existence called Red Supergiant. These are dying stars that nearing the end of their evolution ...

From dusk until 8am in the morning, members of the public have been locked out of Bushy Park. This is because of the annual deer culls that occur in the grounds. A deer cull is a method of reducing population of deer in parks in England, such as Bush...

A man is fighting for his life after a stabbing in Woolwich.

On November 11th 2022, the highly anticipated movie Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, finally made its way to the big screen- and there is much to say.

A Section 60 order has been authorised and will be in place in the SE18 area until tomorrow morning.

Plans to relocate Billingsgate and Smithfield wholesale markets to Dagenham are set to go to Parliament.

Bromley town centre, Vauxhall and Woolwich have been named as London’s three new Night Time Enterprise Zones by Sadiq Khan.

A Team GB hero cut the ribbon at a new Romford Aldi with help from pupils from a local school. 

Islington council has announced that two of its low-traffic zone trial schemes will be made permanent.

A man jailed for making and supplying fake identity documents must pay back more than a quarter of a million pounds.

Free parking is a thing of the past due to new restrictions - but not everyone is happy.

Pupils in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest are to view objects from the V&A Museum's collection in school for the first time in the institution's history.

Local authorities will be able to to raise council tax by 5 per cent without holding a referendum - but London Councils says even this would not fill the funding shortfall.

A Rainham secondary school celebrated after rising from Ofsted's lowest rating to its second highest.

Security minister Tom Tugendhat has been banned from driving for six months after being caught with his mobile phone in his hand while at the wheel.

The average council tax payer in Havering could be forking out more than £2,000 a year following the chancellor’s autumn statement.

Police were called to a chaotic council meeting about low-traffic neighbourhoods on Tuesday evening (November 15).

IN Britain we have five species of butterfly that spend the winter in hibernation. These are the brimstone, small tortoiseshell, red admiral, comma and peacock. Occasionally, as our winters warm up, painted ladies may also hibernate.

Mayor Sadiq Khan has condemned the racist bullying of London Overground workers, revealed by an employment tribunal against Arriva Rail London.

A suspected drug dealer has been charged after police stopped a car for having no working brake lights.

An elderly man who is missing from Croydon may “appear confused”, police say.

People on benefits have described feeling like “the walking dead” as they voiced fears Jeremy Hunt’s expected announcement of a payment increase in line with rising prices will come too late.

Chaseview Care Home in Rush Green has apologised after inspectors called it 'inadequate' and placed it into special measures.

Detectives are releasing images of a man they would like to speak to in connection with a "horrifying" alleged rape.

A construction company has been fined after a worker fell through a skylight and was left in a coma for six weeks.

From hot dog fingers to rock with googly eyes, how Everything Everywhere All At Once takes an existential look into the mother daughter relationship.

Solar panels are not currently functional at a quarter of Haringey Council sites, with some not switched on for two years.

A knifeman in a Tesco jacket threatened a woman holding a child in a video released by the Metropolitan Police in a bid to trace two suspects.

A satisfyingly knotty follow up to the hugely successful Knives Out starring Daniel Craig is among the week's releases

Since the long-awaited release of the first Black Panther movie, fans across the black diaspora have felt empowered and seen, and that is why the sequel, Wakanda Forever, brought in a wide range of black people right from the release date on Friday -...

Concerns have been raised that an asylum seeker accused of raping a teenage boy has reportedly “gone missing”.

A man has appeared in court charged with attempting to murder another man near Tower Hill.

Barking and Dagenham Council is still forecasting a "significant" £13.6million budget gap despite reducing its predicted overspend.

Homeowners in four blocks of flats have been given the all-clear over cladding - but an MP says others still face doubts over the safety and the saleability of their property.

Alexandra Park, N22

South London councils have hit out at plans to burn thousands more tonnes of rubbish a year at the Beddington incinerator.

Half of the primary schools in a South London borough could see their roads closed to traffic at pick-up and drop-off times by 2025.

A South London nursery with a floor so cluttered babies struggled to move around has been blasted by an inspector.