Hairdresser Patrick Phipps has come a long way since he opened the doors of the barber studio Cut Above the Rest at 339 Barking Road 30 years ago.
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Newham Council is looking for people to join the Newham Race Equality Alliance
The Mayor of Newham has offered Borough support to help resettle Afghan refugees
Young people with disabilities and autism are being offered internships with Barts Health NHS Trust as part of the Newham Supported Internship Programme.
Sitting just outside Stratford library is a memorial stone for a man classed as one of England's greatest poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mickey Ambrose praises the heroes of Tokyo and celebrates a winning West Ham start.
View of East Ham South by Councillor Susan Masters.
When local residents Lloyd Jeans, Myanah Saunders, Paul and Karin Holloway, Yasmine Curpen and Hugh Barnard discovered a rundown site close to the town centre...
All the winners in Newham’s £800,000 community projects ballot.
Phil Mellows is looking forward to cask ale week later in the month, but he can’t wait that long for a good pint!
Newham residents had the chance to indulge their love of art after joining an online course run by the Mary Ward College for adults.
Entering West Ham Park from the main entrance on Upton Lane, you pass a house on your right. Immediately after this is a path off to the right where you may...
Unpaid carers have been pushed to their limits every day caring for loved ones throughout the pandemic.
It’s time to play the long game. Cecilia Cran already has her eye on a colourful Spring.
East Ham MP Stephen Timms, who has been appointed a government trade envoy to Switzerland, aims to use his new role to protect and create more jobs for East...
The City of London is facing a major battle over its plans to build blocks of flats on a corner of West Ham Park where the plant nursery used to be.
Dave and Carol Richards, veteran champions of community rights in Newham, are moving on after 31 years at St John’s Church in Stratford.
Local author Carole Payne was born in Forest Gate in 1950, the second of six children, after her family fled India, the country that had been their home for...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Abuse, Neglect and Fire in a London Children’s Workhouse is a new book from Forest Gate resident and author John Walker.
Thana Narashiman is one of 225 people in Newham known to be suffering from long Covid. He argues for action to recognise and treat the condition.
The Newham Bookshop in Barking Road tells us these are the top sellers this month.
A milestone birthday prompted author Pamela R Haynes, who grew up in Canning Town, to write her first novel, Loving the Brothers. Three years later, she has...
Newham fixers put a smile on the face of refugees
Newham actor Jo Martin, star of Dr Who and Holby City, is one of the top contenders to become the 14th ‘doctor’ when Jodie Foster leaves the programme this...
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