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DARK SECRETS: Barking - The Real Truth

Skaters launch campaign to save one of London’s only indoor skateparks

Barking Sporthouse announced on Tuesday that it will close its skatepark and replace it with padel courts

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London schools crisis: Why eight boroughs are defying the capital's 'secondary wave' of falling pupil numbers

Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Brent, Ealing, Hounslow and Barnet have all seen school rolls grow

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Shuttered east London theatre to reopen within three years under revamp plans

The venue in Barking town centre was forced to close in January 2024 after RAAC was discovered in the building

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Two charged with attempted murder after east London stabbing leaves man fighting for his life

A man is in a critical condition in hospital following a ‘large fight’ in Barking on Saturday night

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Two men arrested as man fights for life after stabbings in east London

Three men were discovered by emergency crews with stab wounds after a ‘large fight’ on Saturday night in Barking

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Pip Salvador-Jones obituary

Other lives: Legal expert who worked at three London law centres before becoming director of Barking and Dagenham Citizens Advice

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'We'll win Havering,' declares Nigel Farage as Reform targets three more London councils in local elections

Exclusive: Reform UK leader convinced party will win Havering - and could seize Bexley, Bromley, and Barking and Dagenham

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Man left with 'potentially life-changing injuries' after horror crash between two cars and a pedestrian in Barking

A pedestrian in Barking has been left with potentially life-changing injuries after a horror crash on Sunday

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London's top regeneration zones: future new homes hotspots from Hounslow to Barking

London is finally building again. Prudence Ivey looks at the next big regeneration projects set to transform the capital

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Revealed: The London streets where drivers are hit with £2MILLION worth of penalty tickets

Station Parade in Barking, Albert bridge in Chelsea and Bulls Lane in Enfield are streets where most PCNs were issued

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Pro-Palestine protesters’ chants drowned out by crowds during King’s visit to London’s East End

Pro-Palestine protesters made an appearance during King Charles’ visit to Barking and Dagenham, however their calls were drowned out by the noise of the crowd.

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London council housing scandal probe 'points to mass-scale organised fraud and 'criminality at its highest end'

Police say ‘hundreds’ of Barking and Dagenham Council-owned homes could have been fraudlently let

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Shocking moment murderer rams crowd with his car in east London

Trevelle Rowland, 34, drove at security guards in Barking months before killing someone with his car

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White storks to make historic return to London in 2026

Species extinct as breeding birds in Britain since 1416 to be reintroduced in Barking and Dagenham as part of rewilding effort

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Is London’s next superclub this warehouse by a sewage works in Barking?

The 4,000-capacity Eutopia is independently owned and run by clubland veterans – and despite being on the city’s eastern fringe, clubbers say they’re prepared to trek

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Eutopia: New £1.5 million club to open in Barking with 4,000 capacity

Three interlinked warehouses on a former industrial estate have been transformed

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Police offer £20,000 reward to catch killers of young father shot dead in east London

Hanif Redwood, 32, was shot dead outside the Factory 15 Bar in Barking one year ago today - as police appeal for information

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Hundreds of flats get green light in latest phase of 20,000 home 'new town' on Thames

More than 650 new homes approved in the latest phase of the Barking Riverside development

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London Labour councillors quit party over 'Gaza and anti-immigration rhetoric' and defect to Greens

The Barking and Dagenham councillors form the first political opposition to Labour in the borough in over a decade

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Barking lives up to its name with most noisy dog complaints in London

Southwark was the second-worst borough for noisy dogs with 2,144 complaints, while the City of London recorded just six

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Met Police funding shortfall puts Barking and Dagenham units at risk, officer warns

Superintendant Biju Premnath said “frontline” services would be protected but other units were “at risk”

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MP outrage at NHS over 'unfair' closure of only maternity unit in London borough with highest birthrate

Exclusive: Campaigners have warned that shutting Barking Birth Centre puts women at risk

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Revealed: London borough with highest number of tenants threatened with eviction

Exclusive: Analysis of official data has revealed that Barking and Dagenham has the highest rate of possession claims

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Police appeal to find woman missing for seven years as daughters tell of heartbreak of growing up without mum

Stefana Otilia Malinici, 45, has not been seen since she left her home in Barking in September 2017

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Lorry driver wins £5.2m on lottery, quits job, buys vacuum cleaner

Gary MacDonald, of Barking, east London, had been delivering parcels for more than 30 years.

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