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.

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 ...

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 ...

Voters in Gillingham and Rainham have gone to the ballot box in the general election 2024. A new Member of Parliament is being elected for the Kent constituency which includes the wards of Gillingham ...

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 ...

Rainham residents and business owners are being asked to help shape plans to transform the town centre. Medway Council said it was looking at the future of Rainham town centre and wanted to hear from ...

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 16-year-old girl has been missing over the Christmas period as she was last seen in Rainham nine days ago. Brodee, whose surname has not been shared, was reportedly seen on December 20 ...

Rainham Marshes is one of the first RSPB nature reserves to be located in an urban environment. Nick Bruce-White is the Trainee Site Manager. Nick will be sharing his experiences of running the ...

Ongoing fires in Rainham have affected people's physical and mental health [Reuters] An east London council is moving forward with plans to put an end to perennial fires at a former illegal landfill ...