The original market traded in Lower Thames Street in the City for 900 years, before moving to its current site in Poplar, east London, in 1982. It provides fish to businesses including fishmongers ...

Call the Midwife icon Jessica Raine was the first character to be introduced to viewers in the hit BBC show, but the actress ...

Writer Heidi Thomas has suggested the BBC’s Sunday-night gentle giant might go on hiatus. It would never survive ...

Firefighters have been trying to control a blaze at a 19-storey block of flats in Poplar, east London. Dozens of fire engines are at the scene, with several floors affected. The greenhouse is ...

Call the Midwife has been a hit with viewers since it first launched in 2012 and die-hard fans are certain to remember when ...

Poplar, located in London's East End, suffered extensive bombing during the Blitz, resulting in homelessness, food shortages, and limited healthcare. In the 1950s, parts of the area were severely ...

Dating back to the 1800s, pie and mash shops have been a quintessential staple of high streets across east London. British Pie Week takes place from March 3 to March 9 so there's no better time than ...

was in the east London neighbourhood of Poplar. Once it was finished, Goldfinger and his wife Ursula moved in for two months to learn from the building’s successes and limitations, as well as publicly ...

Lee Hurst grew up with his family in one room of his grandmother's maisonette in Poplar, East London. His first job, aged 16, was as a trainee telephone engineer, . After developing his stand-up act, ...

The BBC series, which charts the early years of Nonnatus House in London’s East End, has been a huge success since it debuted ...

George Ross-Goobey was born in Poplar, east London, in1911, the third son of a shopkeeper and Methodist lay-preacher. He attended Christ's Hospital School, Sussex, on a scholarship, but his family ...