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The owner of a Brick Lane property rented out and used for a house party on January 15 has been fined by Tower Hamlets Council.

Mr Pugh, designer of the Scammell Pioneer, driving himself up the wall in 1929 The Watford Observer has teamed up with Watford Museum and its curator Sarah Priestley to take a journey back to the town’s past through items or places of historical significance. Weve reached the halfway stage of our journey through a history of Watford in 50 objects and number 25 was produced in the town for more than 60 years and will always be one of its finest engineering achievements, the Scammell lorry...

London-based The Hummingbird Bakery has been acquired by investment firm Acropolis Capital. Acropolis Capital acquired the bakery and brand, for an undisclosed sum, through a pre-pack administration process, securing the ongoing operation of three of its shops in Notting Hill, South Kensington and Spitalfields which it said protected more than 60 jobs. The bakery also operated sites in Soho, Richmond and Islington, but Acropolis has not confirmed whether these are part of the deal. “We are in...

Historic Spitalfields with City encroachment creeping ever closer. - Credit: Jeremy Freedman Campaigners are appealing this week for people to make their voices heard ahead of the final deadline for a draft Neighbourhood Plan protecting the future of Spitalfields. The consultation ends on Thursday, February 18. The Neighbourhood Forum is urging residents and businesses to add their say online to Tower Hamlets Council in time for a local referendum later this year or next.  The propos...

What do a pair of living sculptures get up to during a pandemic lockdown? I knock on the door of a house in Spitalfields, east London, to find out. Two hundred years ago this narrow Georgian building

Brothers in paint: Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff With the offer of works by both Kossoff and Auerbach in March — as well as by David Bomberg, their tutor of the early 1950s — Alastair Smart explores a connection between two artists that lasted more than 70 years To help pay his way through art school, Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) took a job alongside his classmate, Leon Kossoff (1926-2019), in the latter’s family bakery in the East End of London. Auerbach would serve o...

“ Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!” With these words, Queen Victoria described her wedding day in her diary – 10 February 1840, writing up the event for the day’s entry from Windsor Castle. It marked the beginning of her marriage to her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The opposite date of this ecstatic exhortation of joy on behalf of the Queen was unquestionably 14 December 1861; the day of the death of the Prince Consort at Windsor Castle, after which there was a h...

10th February 2021 Queen Victoria’s wedding dress is a powerful symbol of what she would refer to in her journal as the ‘ happiest day of my life’. Most probably, it represents more than any other item of clothing or object, the Queen’s identity as a royal bride. Certainly, she chose to wear it again in 1847, when she was painted in her wedding attire by the fashionable portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, as a gift for Prince Albert on their seventh wedding anniversary. The simplici...

A man who spat at and kicked a woman police office while being treated in hospital has been jailed.

Published: 7:48 AM February 2, 2021    24 males were found by police hiding in a space between buildings during the raid in Shadwell. - Credit: Google Maps Twenty-four males who tried to flee a suspected cannabis café face fines of up to £200 for breaking Covid-19 rules. People got into the suspected café in Spitalfields using an intercom. They even had CCTV set up to monitor those who wanted to get inside. Officers carrying out a misuse of drugs warrant raided a commercial premises in ...