FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Barking - The Untold Story

London council launches crackdown on bad parking

Barking and Dagenham Council says population growth and poor health means it needs to update how it manages street parking

Evening Standard · Sep 20

Entire London borough could be covered by controlled parking zones under council plans

Barking and Dagenham Council is proposing to roll out new parking permit zones

Evening Standard · Sep 4

Zero stars for this endless rating game

Brief letters: Online ratings | School holiday scam | Back-row kisses | Barking | Champagne populism

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19

113,000 cigarettes seized in east London in illicit tobacco raid

Barking and Dagenham Council says the raid on a premises in Heathway earlier this month uncovered one of its ‘largest ever illegal tobacco hauls’

Evening Standard · Jul 24

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

Evening Standard · Jul 18

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

Evening Standard · Jun 27

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

Evening Standard · Jun 19

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

Evening Standard · Jun 10

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

Evening Standard · Jun 7

Pip Salvador-Jones obituary

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

The Guardian - UK · May 27