A second bid to expand and improve facilities at a special needs school deemed "not fit for purpose" has been given the go-ahead. 

A bitter feud between families erupted in violence as a woman repeatedly beat her neighbour over the head with a claw hammer in an attack from behind, leaving him with a fractured skull and covered in blood. 

A “jealous and controlling” 48-year-old man who used a hammer to smash his way into a residential property and kill a woman in front of her child has admitted murder.

A ‘shrine’ to West Ham legends will close after the club's next game and turned into a flat.

Leytonstone British Legion raise £13,500 for the annual Poppy Appeal last year, it has been revealed.

An Anti NHS cuts campaigner has called the ‘tragic’ placement of Whipps Cross hospital into special measures a ‘descent into chaos’.

A hustings challenge by the first UKIP parliamentary candidate for Chingford and Woodford Green is gaining pace, after the Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates agreed to take part.

A popular community festival which attracts tens of thousands of visitors year-after-year could see a record turnout this year.