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Major tube strike to follow Queen's Platinum Jubilee long weekend

The Hammersmith and City line is part suspended between Barking and Moorgare File pic: Katie Collin

Transport for London

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Thousands of London tube station workers are preparing to strike on the Monday after the Queen's Platinum Jubilee long weekend.

A spectacular bolt of lightning ove the Suffolk coast as a huge thunderstorm brought an end to the s

London Weather

Thunderstorms to hit London this evening warns Met Office

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EMBARGOED TO 0001 SATURDAY APRIL 30 File photo dated 18/06/19 of a plane coming in to land at Liverp

London Live News

Romford West Ham fan accused of harassing Jewish man on flight

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Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

9 great ways to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

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Jailed burglars: Anthony Lascelles, Christopher Sargent and Ajaypal Singh

Gun crime

Burglars jailed for violent Upminster burglary where boy, 11, was shot

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Influential Role Model and Mentors Award 2021

Awards 'inspired by Mother Teresa' look for unsung heroes

Greg McNeill-Moss

The Queen and Prince Philip on their tour of Mayflower School

The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

Celebrate Queen's Platinum Jubilee with souvenir magazine

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A woman passing a mural of a frontline worker in Dublin

Coronavirus

Covid patient numbers continue to fall in east London

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An aerial view of terraced houses in London

London Live News

7 of the cheapest streets in each east London borough

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John Empson started at Network Rail back in 1974, after responding to an ad in the Romford Recorder

Romford’s Network Rail section manager retires after nearly 50 years

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Kashif Mushtaq, 38, of Heaton Close, Romford, was found guilty of Class A and B drug importation

London Live News

Jailed: Gang who smuggled £3.5m worth of drugs from Jamaica

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A nurse puts on PPE in a ward for Covid patients

Coronavirus

More Covid patients on ventilators this week in east London

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Ilford Road Baptist Church has been praying for doctors and nurses caring for Covid patients

Coronavirus

Drop in Covid cases in east London this week

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London Underground sign

Transport for London

Severe tube delays after person hit by train

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The bikers rode across east London to deliver the Easter eggs

Charity News

Bikers deliver hundreds of Easter eggs for charity appeal

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Maya Joseph and Orla Sheehan, both four, at the Easter bonnet making workshop 2022 at Romford Shopping Hall

Easter

Easter in east London: 7 family-friendly outings to try this half term

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Kashif Mushtaq, 38, of Heaton Close, Romford, was found guilty of Class A and B drug importation

London Live News

Guilty: Gang smuggled £3.5m drugs from Jamaica in sweet potato deliveries

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A BP service station in Chelmsford, Essex

London Live News

Fuel hikes: Average cost of filling family petrol car exceeds £90

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Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

Sadiq Khan: 'Rents are forcing two-hour journeys for London workers'

William Mata

Christine Fenwick has been taking in lost and stray cats for 28 years

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IWD: Meet the east London grandma who has fostered almost 1,000 cats

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Disruption on Greater Anglia trains to and from London is expected to last until further notice.

London Live News

Man arrested amid train chaos after railway trespasser 'assaults police'

Andrew Brookes

A jury deliberated for more than two days to find Pc Daniel Bowen not guilty

London Live News

Cop cleared over death of pensioner in crash

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Storm Eunice caused a tree to fall on a car on Wilberforce Rd at Mountgrove Road

Storm Eunice

Major incident: London Fire Brigade inundated with hundreds of Storm...

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Daniel Joslin, 40, is wanted after failing to comply with a registered sex offender notification and a breach of court bail

London Live News

Absconding registered sex offender last seen in east London

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File photo dated 03/10/14 of an NHS hospital ward. The Stay At Home messaging employed by the Govern

London Live News

Latest Covid patient numbers in east London hospitals

Andrew Brookes

Voting for the British Kebab Awards are now open, with winners announced on March 1

London Live News

5 best kebab shops in east London as voted by locals

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Donald Lardner with wife Beryl.

Obituary

'A kind, gentle man': Tributes to retired printworker and beloved father

Daniel Gayne

Commuters during rush hour at Westminster underground station in central London, the day after Mayor

Transport for London

'Government should rethink their plans': Masks still required on TfL

Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter

Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, co-founder and co-artistic director of hip-hip dance company Boy Blue.

Theatre

East London hip-hop dance director Michael Asante made MBE

Daniel Gayne

Delays on trains between Liverpool Street and Shenfield, including at Seven Kings, Goodmayes, Ilford, Romford and Forest Gate

London Live News

Severe delays on TfL rail due to faulty train at Stratford

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