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Poplar activist Sangeeta Pillai is on a mission to break taboos for South Asian women using a microphone as her

From Limehouse to Los Angeles: Muhsin Mahmud just walked the Emmy red carpet at the 44th College Television Academy Awards

Muhsin Mahmud has just returned from the glitz and glamour of the Academy Awards, where his passion for media started

In the wake of founder Tony Haynes’ passing, the latest branch of East London’s Grand Union Orchestra creates a genre-defying

Officially opened by the Prince of Wales in 1897, the Blackwall Tunnel’s construction process was far from smooth, with changes

Affable and down to earth, Asuquo uses everything from kids’ books to reels to teach normal people about their finances.

Tower Hamlets street markets have long adapted to its changing, entrepreneurial population. 800 years old, what does the fish market’s

This year’s festive trip to Poplar with our favourite midwives from Nonnatus House will be a double-bill special. The BBC

Henry Moore carved his ‘Draped Seated Woman’ for a Stepney Council Estate, so is its current home in Canary Wharf

Anything goes at this gem of a theatre on the Isle of Dogs treasured by emerging writers and performers –

Luba Lukhanina, who fled Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022, reminisces about her childhood along the Dnieper River, the

From warehouse worker to housing advocate, octogenarian Derrick Cutler has seen Limehouse transform in real-time and fought on behalf of

The first in a four-part series about the threat to Poplar’s pioneering social housing, we look at how post-war architects