On Tuesday the 10th of March 2026, Greenwich Council announced a set of proposed constitutional changes as part of the agenda for our next full council meeting on Wednesday the 18th of March 2026. Th...

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Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power

Piet Mondrian found fame, fortune and glory with his grid-like paintings filled with basic colours. But did many of his ideas come from Marlow Moss? Our writer celebrates an extraordinary British tale...

The Green Party has gained a second councillor in Greenwich after a former Labour member joined their ranks with four months to go until the next election.

Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

Labour’s candidate in the Shooters Hill by-election has made “demonstrably untrue” claims about asbestos in a building Greenwich Council plans to sell, according to a community association that wants ...

Greenwich’s Labour councillors have been ordered not to express their support for the Green candidate in this month’s by-election in Shooters Hill.

From nationalising gas plants to boosting renewables, how soaring prices could be tackled

Broadcaster says it does not condone ‘abusive behaviour’ of its creator after repairs to statue of Ariel and Prospero

Yesterday, World Health Day, the London Mayor gifted us the £2.2 billion Silvertown road tunnel. Linking Greenwich and Newham below the river Thames, the tunnel is in one of London’s poorest boroughs ...

Victoria Rance says the ‘1970s technology’ will cause pollution that will damage health for decades, but London mayor and TfL claim it will reduce congestion

The Silvertown Tunnel got off to a quiet start on Monday morning - but passengers on an SL4 Superloop bus found themselves diverted through a council depot.

Transport for London has assured residents that the GLA will monitor dangerous PM2.5 pollution when the tunnel opens. But the GLA's Breathe London monitors are closed.

A 2% wealth tax could raise £24bn, yet we're cutting disability benefits instead. Who are we protecting?

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Research backs schemes that encourage doctors to prescribe time in cultural institutions to boost mental health and reduce loneliness

Researchers spot orange Maori octopus clinging to back of large shark off coast of New Zealand in December 2023

Free speech and right to protest on the line in the United States.

Planet now has 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined

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Letters: Dr Andrew Boswell points out major flaws in carbon capture, utilisation and storage, David Stokes says moving away from it would be no bad thing, while Kate Macintosh thinks it is a poor inve...

Hackney council calls time on Ashwin Street studio, neighbour to newly famous live music venue Cafe Oto

Campaigners are calling on Transport for London to bring in a 'zero-fares system' which is used in Luxembourg and several French cities

As the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life study found Hindus are at the forefront of environmental activism, British Hindu, Muslim, and Christian participants discuss how they reconcile faith a...

The American novelist on James, his Booker-shortlisted retelling of Huckleberry Finn, working with Steven Spielberg and the silliness of the Oscars

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In his first month in office, the president has carried out a campaign of retribution that has little analogue in history.

Researchers found that most birds-of-paradise are biofluorescent – meaning they absorb light through their bodies

TfL has announced that bus trips on routes 129 and SL4, which will use the Silvertown Tunnel when it opens in April, will be free for a year after that. As will trips on the 108, which goes through th...

Keir Starmer vowed to end the 'challenge culture' of spurious judicial reviews that delay major projects such as nuclear power plants, wind farms and roads.

Juan Guillermo Garcés had a brush with death while burning jungle for cattle pasture – now he runs a nature reserve in Colombia where more than 100 new species have been discovered

In his first exhibition in the UK, the American weaver threads political and personal themes into vibrant tapestries that merge the everyday with the allegorical

Conditions for a January firestorm in Los Angeles like this have not existed before now, writes a meteorologist and climate journalist