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Fire engulfed a flat in east London early this morning, forcing about 100 tower block residents to flee their homes. Fire crews were called to the building in Leather Gardens, Stratford after a fire began in a 17th floor flat at 1.20am.more

A Spanish woman was grabbed by her hair and racially abused in a shocking attack on a Central line Tube train. The 24-year-old was talking Spanish with friends in the early hours of last Saturday when two women started shouting at her.more

Brits are set to bask in glorious sunshine next week with temperatures expected to hit the low 20s by Thursday.more

Security scanners and working baggage carousels are going under the hammer this month as part of an unusual auction which will see the remains of Heathrow's Terminal One sold off.more

Yes, as of the weekend the UK could be basking in temperatures of up to 22 degrees (that's hotter than the likes of Barcelona and Paris).more

The problem emerged when around 30 delayed flights landed at the Essex airport between midnight and 3am amid poor visibility.more

A west London council has unanimously voted in favour of creating a buffer zone around an abortion clinic to shield women from anti-abortion protesters, in a move that could pave the way for councils across the country to take similar action.more

A purge of potential terrorists working on London's transport system is being carried out to protect the public from another Islamic State attack, Britain's security minister revealed today.more

Over 30 exhibitors representing leading authors of Polish literature are present at the Polish stand during the London book fairs that were opened yesterday, which are considered one of the most important industry events in the world.more

The 24-hour walkout, organised by the Aslef union, will affect District line services on Friday, in a dispute over the treatment of a driver.more

Scotland Yard officers were called to investigate a white Ford Transit van which was stopped just metres from the palace gates.more

A man was shot dead by armed officers after he called police to make threats and claimed he was armed with a gun. Police received a call from a man, aged in his 40s, who claimed he had a firearm at an address in Romford in the early hours of Monday.more

Over 150 participants took part in the fifth Congress of Polish Women in Great Britain on Saturday, which was held under the slogan "Equality: obviousness or challenge?".more

London was the hottest place in the UK on Saturday as temperatures soared to 18C, amid fine and bright weather across swathes of the country.more

Some 300 extra officers are being deployed in badly hit parts of London amid a spike in deadly violence.more

First he compared its run-down river frontage to a "Barcelona on Thames." Now London's most ambitious town hall boss wants to transform Barking's depressed and downtrodden town centre into a gleaming "mini-Manhattan".more

A tourist bus crash which left four sightseers in hospital including one man with a severed ear was caused when the driver took his hands off the wheel to look at a map, it has been revealed. more

Two men whose tussle on the Tube tracks could have resulted in their deaths have been charged with endangering the lives of the heroes who pulled them out of the way of an oncoming train.more

A wet and cold March has given way to a warm early April as forecasters predict double-digit temperatures across the UK heading towards the weekend.more

A boy who is just 13 is among the latest victims of knife crime in London as violence continues to blight the city.more

A stalwart of Islington's Polish community, Aleksandra Podhorodecka MBE is organising a 'heritage day' at the Parish of Our Lady of Czestochowa and St Casimir in Devonia Road. She speaks to the Gazette.more

London is set to retain its dominance as the world's premier financial centre despite Brexit uncertainty, according to analysis of company flotations data by EY.more

Two shootings in London in the space of an hour have left a 17-year-old girl dead and a boy, 16, critically ill. The teenage girl was found with a bullet wound in Tottenham on Monday night and pronounced dead at the scene.more

Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix's sales pitch was simple and powerful: his firm's personality-profiling ability would let politicians win votes by tapping into people's deepest fears and desires.more

For the first time in almost 50 years brown bears have been spotted in Richmond Park.more