• One cornerstone of official housing policy is a plan to build about 120, 000 homes in the Thames Gateway to the east of London.

    ECONOMIST: Most Britons want their own homes, and green spaces too

  • Freud, the son of an architect and older brother of the late broadcaster Clement Freud, went to the Central School of Art, in London and then to the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing and London's Goldsmiths College.

    BBC: Painter Lucian Freud dies aged 88

  • Other transport projects anticipated this year include work on a new Isle of Dogs Crossrail station, "intensification" of the work to extend the East London Line and a host of initiatives to help smooth traffic flow.

    BBC: TfL budget heralds major works

  • On Wednesday, she will be joined by the Duke of York in east London to visit the offices of creative agency Mother and business social network site Yammer.

    BBC: Queen to resume official engagements after illness

  • In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" -- the East India Company.

    CNN: Tuesday,

  • "We do know of a number of boroughs that have a higher than average number of Romanians so I would expect to see influxes in the east of London, which is predominantly where they are now, " he said.

    BBC: Eric Pickles: New EU 'influx' may add to housing problems

  • It means a slowing of the pace of growth to the west of London, giving way to more business and population growth in... the east of London.

    BBC: Mind the gap on the Northern Line

  • The National Casino Forum said it was set to be the second of these to open following the opening of Westfield casino, next to the Olympic Park in east London, in 2011.

    BBC: Work starts on ?150m casino complex at NEC, Birmingham

  • He was there again this week, struggling to turn back a Conservative tide which has engulfed a swathe of small cities and rural areas across the centre of the province, from the outskirts of Ottawa in the east to Niagara Falls in the south and the university town of London in the west.

    ECONOMIST: Canada's election

  • Organisers also pledged to regenerate the poor East End of London with jobs and homes.

    ECONOMIST: The city is trying to pull off a mightily ambitious games

  • "The scale of it is truly extraordinary, " said Dr Toby Butler from the University of East London who is leading a project to record the memories of survivors and rescuers and the relatives of those who died.

    BBC: Bethnal Green Tube disaster marked 70 years on

  • The Thames Tideway Tunnel will be the width of three London buses and will run for 20 miles from west to east London, connecting up the 34 of the most polluting sewer overflows.

    BBC: Thames Water bills rise to pay for Thames super sewer

  • In a speech in Oxfordshire, Mr Cameron described the disorder that spread from London to parts of the East and West Midlands, Merseyside, Bristol, Manchester and Gloucester as "a wake-up call for our country".

    BBC: England riots: Broken society is top priority - Cameron

  • In 2007 he was moved out of his home on the Clays Lane Estate in Newham, east London, to make way for the site of the Olympics.

    CNN: Staying out in the cold: Olympic killjoys?

  • Sailing boats that were too tall to pass under the 14 bridges along the river pageant route lined the river from London Bridge to Wapping, in the east, creating an avenue of sails set against the Tower of London and the city's financial center.

    CNN: Eyes of world on spectacular Thames royal pageant

  • Westminster University came bottom of the table, with the University of East London second to last.

    BBC: Loughborough voted top university by students

  • The conditions led the Met Office to issue an extreme weather warning for London and the south east of England.

    BBC: Heavy snow disrupts London travel

  • She said the Games had been a "huge success" but there were "serious doubts" about whether the promise of benefits to neighbouring east London communities would be kept.

    BBC: Olympic legacy 'hanging in the balance', says peer

  • But in the meantime, residents of East London will be left to marvel at the brand new stadium in their neighborhood, and wonder when they can actually go inside.

    FORBES: After Hosting A Successful Olympics, London Hits A Snag

  • London School of Economics scholar Dick Hobbs, who grew in a hardscabble section of east London, traces yobism in large part to the decline of blue-collar opportunities throughout Britain.

    FORBES: New Geographer

  • "The government has made a lot about the benefits which will flow from the Olympics, not just to east London but right across the country, and one of the principal benefits should be to benefit tourism, with people seeing around the world what Britain has to offer, " he added.

    BBC: Anger at pre-2012 tourism budget

  • Men of working age in the East End of London are twice as likely to die from heart disease as men in Surrey.

    BBC: News | UK Politics | Frank Dobson's speech in full

  • Rio and London carnival artists collaborated for the Hackney One Carnival to welcome the Olympic Torch Relay, screenings of restored Hitchcock films at east London venues and a fantastic program of theater, dance and outdoor events at the Barbican and with the Create festival.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Mr Ellam, who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, thinks detectives could have caught Napper for the spate of up to 70 sex offences in south-east London parkland, which became known as the Green Chain rapes, a year earlier.

    BBC: 'Jazmine would have been 19 now'

  • Third, and most controversially, Mr von Clemm was among the earliest to spot the commercial potential of the redevelopment of the derelict docklands area of east London, where the skyline is now dominated by Canary Wharf, a building designed by Cesar Pelli which ranks among the tallest office blocks in Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Michael von Clemm

  • The proposals for Lewisham are part of a bigger plan to restructure the hospitals in south-east London.

    BBC: Thousands march to save Lewisham A&E and maternity unit

  • Mr Rose, who as an historian of the book belongs to a growing sub-discipline, has written a masterly account of the way in which the British working classes (and that term must remain emphatically plural, since Mr Rose moves from the landlocked rural poor, to London's Jewish East End, to the clattering factory towns of north-western England) have taught, soothed and entertained themselves through their own intellectual resources.

    ECONOMIST: Cultural history

  • Regardless of its future legacy, the Olympics are here now, and east London has much to be proud of.

    CNN: Why gritty East End is London's gold standard

  • There is even a tunnelling academy in east London dedicated to teaching the art of boring.

    BBC: London's underground boring renaissance

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