The Arnolds Field in Launders Lane - dubbed the Rainham Volcano - was officially declared contaminated following a judicial ...

Two separate applications for a total of 75 homes in Kent have been given the green light. Schemes for 42 flats in the centre ...

Baroness Jacqui Smith visited New City College’s Rainham campus to promote technical education, praising staff and apprentices.

Anthony Denney, 1913-1990, was ubiquitous across Condé Nast’s glamorous collection of magazines, Decorations Editor for British Vogue for two decades and a photographer for House and Garden. The ...

The people of Rainham in east London are bracing themselves for fire season. Under Arnolds Field on Launders Lane, tonnes of years-old and illegally dumped toxic waste have been smouldering beneath ...

Part of a busy road has been forced to shut while emergency roadworks take place – just weeks after it reopened. Lower Rainham Road, at the junction with Pump Lane, in Rainham, will be closed to allow ...

More and more children at Rebecca Stewart's east London playgroup are using asthma inhalers, she says. It was about one in 40 - but now, she says, it is more like one out of every four. "I do think it ...

More than 100 firefighters are tackling a blaze at an industrial estate in east London. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called to Ferry Lane in Rainham at 13:11 BST where a warehouse ...

East London isn’t flush with National Trust properties. It has two, to be precise; Hackney’s Sutton House, real-life home to Wolf Hall’s Ralph Sadler, and Eastbury Manor House, that Elizabethan ...

An environmental group has launched legal action against Havering Council amid claims that a lack of action over an illegal landfill site is causing residents to breathe toxic, polluted air. A toxic ...

It has been some time since we last had an entry on the online diary, but here we are back again, for yet another instalment of the comings and goings of this unique and vibrant nature reserve. Kate ...

A series of interventions in the town of Rainham – often quite modest in scale – have had a profound cumulative effect, writes Ellis Woodman Lying a 25-minute train journey east from Fenchurch Street ...