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Grade II listed pub to reopen and will include New York-style restaurant
A historic pub building in Bethnal Green is to return to its former glory and will reopen as part of a new, three-floor venue that will include a New York-style restaurant. Tower Hamlets Council’s licensing sub-committee approved a new premises
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New memorial unveiled to those killed in Tube station tragedy
A small group of relatives gathered at a windswept Manor Park Cemetery to remember 88 people killed in Bethnal Green in one of the worst civilian disasters of the Second World War. They came for the blessing of a new memorial wall to the 88 buried
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Traders shocked by 'bombshell' market closure announcement
“I’m saddened by the fact that at this moment in time people are going to think that London is not going to have a fish market.” Those are the words of Tony Lyons, who has been selling fish at Billingsgate Market for 37 years. His daughter
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Historic Billingsgate Market set to close
The City of London Corporation has agreed to stop running the historic Billingsgate Market in Poplar and pay compensation to traders. The corporation still needs to submit a Private Bill to Parliament to officially withdraw from running Billingsgate
