The 10-story block of flats on King's Road, Barking, could be anywhere in suburban London. Modern social housing with staggered metal balconies overlook a quiet residential street. The playful shrieks ...

A suburban commuter hub in east London leaves some scratching their heads thanks to a "baffling" feature. Chadwell Heath was founded as a quiet rural hamlet, with a complex background right from the ...

The population of Barking and Dagenham has gone up by 33,000 in the last decade, a rise of 17.7% - far exceeding the increase in London generally, at 7.7%, according to Office for National Statistics ...

A significant planning approval has been granted for the development of 2,977 new homes on the site of a former gasworks in ...

A new study identifies large clusters of food deserts, where residents have limited access to affordable, nutritious food, in East London—particularly Newham, Redbridge, and Barking and Dagenham—and ...

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The government’s housing and regeneration agency has approved a £124million funding package for one of London’s biggest ...

CATONSVILLE, Md. | R.J. Eytle-Rock was 16 and a promising young basketball and soccer star when he left his home, about an hour east of London, to attend Barking Abbey, a notable secondary school in ...

A Ukrainian wine company is standing to make a loss of up to £100,000 after a robbery in London. More than 3,000 bottles ...

LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - The operators of a major gas-fired power station in the east of London have begun negotiations over the facility's closure due to poor market conditions. Because gas prices ...

Barking and Dagenham and Havering have been the east London boroughs with the least crime in each month of 2025 and October was no different. Barking and Dagenham saw 1,702 offences reported - up by 3 ...