A 24-hour musical marathon managed to raise £1200 this bank holiday in aid of a local charity.

Reporters' live updates from counts across east London and west Essex throughout the night

Thousands of people have been kept on the edge of their seats by the hundreds of actors who have trodden the boards at Theatre Royal Stratford East over the years.

A mother-of-two is on her way to pitch to Richard Branson after she was shortlisted in a Virgin business competition.

Labour’s Stella Creasy has retained her seat with a landslide majority in Walthamstow despite her party enduring a “difficult night” in the General Election .

Witness the colour, energy and sheer exuberance of Bollywood as a new musical explodes onto the West End stage direct from sell-out performances in Mumbai.

A college inquiry into allegations two teachers were victimised because of their union activities has been rejected and dismissed by the National Union of Teachers (NUT). 

"I stood, not alone, but with the boys, our boys, my boys, who had fallen by the wayside. With the lads who had given their all for freedom."