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The Latest Breaking News from Barking and Dagenham Council

Mecca withdraws plans for 24-hour Dagenham bingo hall

Barking and Dagenham Council is holding a public consultation on whether to toughen up its gambling licensing policies

Evening Standard · Aug 18

£22 milllion 'black hole' in London council's finances sparks tax hike and spending cuts warning

Council leader says town hall’s situation is ‘incredibly difficult’

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025

Cat-callers in east London to face £1,000 fines in new crackdown on street harassment

Barking and Dagenham Council has added sexual harassment to its Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO)

Evening Standard · Nov 7, 2024

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Dagenham fire: Council aims to raise £20,000 to help 'distressed' victims 'get back on their feet'

A GoFundMe page for affected families has been set up by Barking and Dagenham Council

Evening Standard · Aug 28, 2024

Warning issued over London council house scam which has seen desperate residents hand over thousands

Fraudsters have promised access to properties controlled by Waltham Forest, Islington, Lambeth and Barking and Dagenham councils on social media

Evening Standard · May 17, 2024

Go-kart company fined almost £120,000 after London schoolgirl strangled by own headscarf

Ruwaida Adan, 15, visited Capital Karts in Barking as part of a day out organised by a youth group

Evening Standard · Apr 9, 2024

Residents shocked after balcony collapses from east London apartment block

Matt Lismore, who lives on the Gascoigne East estate, said it's a "miracle nobody was seriously injured"

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2023

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The local councils that spent the most money on the King’s Coronation

The coronation is set to cost tax payers between £50million and £150million

The Independent UK · May 8, 2023

Mum spends £170 boiling kettles to wash her 4 kids after having no hot water for 12 days

Sarah Wedge, from Barking, east London, was forced to spent an extra £170 on boiling kettles to bathe her children amid soaring electricity costs when the hot water went off

Daily Mirror · Nov 21, 2022

Fine for owners of illegal puppy farm in Dagenham where dogs were ‘chained up and left in cages’

Three men have been banned from pet ownership after pups found ‘in own faeces’

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2022

Vulnerable tenant 'choking on mould' and coughing up own stomach lining in grim flat

Stephen, 46, from East London, is living with numerous health issues and claims he is “trapped” in his Dagenham council flat which is in a “severe state” of disrepair

Daily Mirror · Jul 13, 2022

London elections 2022: Labour wins Barking and Dagenham once again

Londoners went to the polls in local elections on May 5. Joe Talora has the lowdown on the vote in the east London Labour stronghold

Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2022

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