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outside the greedy cow restaurant Mile End
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The Greedy Cow to shut its restaurant after 14 years of service

January 8, 2023January 13, 2023 Alice Bourne 0 Comments News

Local residents mourn the loss of the much-loved Mile End burger restaurant Greedy Cow as its sit-in restaurant is closed

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Outside of Morpeth Secondary School in Bethnal Green.
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Tower Hamlets becomes first London borough to extend universal free school meals to secondary school students

January 6, 2023January 19, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

With more than half of children in Tower Hamlets suffering from food insecurity, annual funding of £3.7 million will make

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Del Downey, at his fishmongers' stall on Globe Town Market, Roman Road, East London, in 2018.
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Goodbye Del Downey: Globe Town Market waves farewell to the East End’s longest-serving fishmonger

December 19, 2022December 30, 2022 Polly Nash 9 Comments News

Soaring overhead costs, dwindling footfall and market square construction: How the Downey Brothers fishmonger was forced out of Globe Town

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Gingerbread men decorated in drag, by Kween Kream bakery.
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London’s first openly queer bakery opens in Hackney Wick

December 3, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Gingerbread in drag, kinky cakes and sexual slices, the baked goods you can find at Ru Paul’s go-to erotic bakery

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A man holding up a sign of the new East End Trades Guild guide with English writing and in Bengali, at the Bishopsgate Institute, East London
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Milestone celebration for East End organisation which campaigned for fair business rents during pandemic

November 29, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments News

East London’s largest network of independent businesses has reached a milestone birthday, after it recently celebrated its ten-year anniversary. The 

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Jungle Electric vegan cafe on Roman Road.
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Jungle Electric leads movement to make Bow safer for women and girls

November 23, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Jungle Electric becomes Roman Road’s first certified ‘Safe Place’ on the SafeUP app which aims to make women and girls

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Front cover of The Slice Tower Hamlets autumn/winter 2022 issue, featuring Repton Boxing Club.
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Third issue of The Slice magazine is here

November 7, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Celebrating one year since its inaugural edition, the next issue of Tower Hamlets’ only independent free magazine is now available

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Royal Mail Bow delivery office postal workers outside the delivery office, East London
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Bow Royal Mail postal workers join national strikes over pay and conditions

October 26, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments News

Drastic cuts to sick leave pay and plans to make Sunday a working day with no extra pay, Bow Royal

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Globe Town Market Square, 2019
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Works start on Globe Town market square transformation

October 21, 2022December 13, 2022 Victoria Miller 0 Comments News

Diggers, drills, and barriers in Globe Town square signal the start of works to transform the borough’s smallest market. If

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Roman Road lights, Christmas 2020, by Phil Verney
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‘Closing on Mondays for the first time in 11 years’: How East End businesses are cutting down energy costs

October 13, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Cost of living, News

Faced with rising prices, businesses of all sizes are scratching  their heads about how to reduce energy usage, but what

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a large group of protestors holding up placards saying 'save our safer streets' on Antill Road, Bow, East London
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Consultation receiving six objections led to removal of Antill Road traffic filter

September 30, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 0 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

Freedom of Information request reveals Liveable Streets reversal was based on six individual objections, amid residents’ growing frustration at a

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Teasdale Street with road block
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Liveable Streets: The case for reversal

September 23, 2022December 13, 2022 Polly Nash 5 Comments Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, News

We hear from those supporting Mayor Rahman’s plans to reopen our roads Since its inception in 2021 Liveable Streets has

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