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Met officer dismissed after inappropriate contact with teenagers

Paul Summerson, 43, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court. Picture: Met Police

Metropolitan Police

Holly Chant

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A Met officer from Barking has been dismissed without notice after he was found guilty of arranging meetings with teenage girls.

The bottomless brunch at Issho-Ni in Bethnal Green Road

Food and Drink | Review

Bottomless Japanese brunch in an elegant setting to kickstart the weekend

Rashmi Narayan

Woman with nose piercing and hijab taking a selfie

London Live News

Plea date set for man accused of Yasmin Begum killing

Cash Boyle

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Woman with nose piercing and hijab taking a selfie

London Live News

Man charged with murder of woman in Bethnal Green

Cash Boyle

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London Remix returns to Richmix Friday and Saturday nfght, Febriuary 2 and 3. Picture: Alejandro Tam

Music

'Winter warmer' of a festival returns to Shoreditch with 'amazing'...

Holly Chant

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Pub philosopher Bryn Williams

Pubs

Pub philosophy revived in east London

Holly Chant

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Emergency services outside the Two More Years bar and restaurant studios at Fish Island, Hackney

London Fire Brigade

People injured after pub collapses in Hackney Wick

Holly Chant

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Flour and Flowers café has moved to Cambridge Heath

Food and Drink

Shoreditch floral café blooms at new premises in Bethnal Green

Mia Lyndon

Mel Pinet, of Bethnal Green's Wrap a Hug, with her baby in a sling

Victoria Park

Wrap a Hug: baby slings bring east London parents together

Mia Lyndon

The Sober IS Fun comedy night is being held in Bethnal Green at Backyard Comedy Club

Comedy

An afternoon you will remember: Alcohol-free comedy club returns to east...

Mia Lyndon

SliderCuts Hackney is offering free appointments to people participating in Movember

London Live News

Free Movember 'shave down' at Hackney salon

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Hackney's Yes Please Productions first lyric video was for the Rolling Stones' song She's A Rainbow

Music

East London couple's Rolling Stones lyric videos are a lesson in visual...

Holly Chant

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Blend of TS Eliot and Kazi Islam at Rich Mix centenary

TS Eliot blends with Indian culture at Rich Mix 100 years on

Mike Brooke

Modest street in Bethnal Green where houses now fetch £1m-plus on property market

Flat going for £2.5m in Bethnal Green as property prices hit the roof

Mike Brooke

Abel Selaocoe plays The Jago in Dalston on December 4

Music

Clubs swap Skepta for Bach as classical stars come out of the concert hall

Bridget Galton

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Hero lifesavers... Pc Ryan McCarthy (left) and Pc Mabz Rahman

Metropolitan Police

Police officers save lives in two sperate emergencies on same shift

Mike Brooke

Ace Corner shop for pot noodle treatment

Therapy rooms pop-up in Shoreditch to 'treat' fast food addicts

Mike Brooke

Independent films like Sweet Disaster will be showing in east London as part of 29th Raindance Film Festival.

Film

The UK's biggest indie film festival is coming to east London

Holly Chant

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The east London Scouts have launched an early years programme for four to five-year-olds called Squirrels.

Education News

Scouts roll out new early years Squirrels programme across east London

Holly Chant

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The Repair Shop's Jay Blades became a bingo caller for a day at an east London event.

BBC

Repair Shop's Jay Blades hosts bingo for older Londoners

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Common tattoos convicts wore in 18th and 19th centuries

18th-century convict tattoos offered free in Shoreditch

Mike Brooke

Mystery of who was behind the camera

Professor dates Regent's Canal blaze snaps - but who took them?

Mike Brooke

Slider Cuts founder and top barber Mark Maciver.

Arts & Culture

Hackney barber to Lebron James and Anthony Joshua has skills recognised

Holly Chant

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The first Zero meal event at The Beehive in Bethnal Green.

Climate Emergency

Charity puts on community feasts to tackle food waste

Holly Chant

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Men convicted or jailed in east London this week

Guilty: Who was convicted or jailed in east London this week?

Cash Boyle

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The canalside blaze some time in the 1970s

Do you remember this blazing inferno on the Regent's Canal?

Mike Brooke