East End News

KOOKY doctor Gunther von Hagens is setting up a UK body-processing plant -after hundreds of Brits offered to donate their corpses.

Shuttered restaurants and abandoned storefronts continue to transform as summer progresses.

State Rep. Dawn Creekmore receives a hug from Mary Jean Busken of Benton on Tuesday; the two worked together this past session to adopt Julia s Law, which is named after the Buskensa daughter, who was murdered.

It's the Kyles' 19th anniversary, and Michael and Jay are busy one-upping each other in the gift department.

A teenage girl told authorities her mother prostituted her to a man for money, including cash for a Dodge pickup and a house down payment, a police report says.

When you go to Ireland, everyone bids you adieu with the same benediction: "Enjoy the Guinness." Fat chance, I thought.

Many of the East Enda s expansive properties provide the perfect setting for outdoor events.

BANISH all thoughts of a low-key season as the Gossip Girls descend on the Hamptons.

We are standing at the end of Seaview Avenue and staring at a small gap in a chain-link fence between us and a bridge that used to go to Pleasure Beach.

''It's urban -- in Welsh terms,'' says Sian Summers, literary manager for the upcoming Studio Theatre reading of Cardiff East , of the piece's namesake city, Wales' capital and home to 300,000 people.

Richard Branson and Kate Moss Sir Richard Branson angered East Enders yesterday by suggesting the London Marathon ditch the area for a more "glamorous" route.

It's been nearly 20 years since a hurricane hit the East End of Long Island and many government agencies and emergency services officials worry that, as the 2009 hurricane season gets ramped up, a sort of "hurricane amnesia" has beset a local populace that has gone through major changes since the last one.

IRAN blocks the BBC signal in Iran. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, twins Tehran with Chicago , says he is the winner and all is hunky-dory. Read his speech in full here .

THREE youths face life sentences after being found guilty of killing Ben Kinsella, the 16-year-old brother of actress Brooke Kinsella.

Only 115 local people have been taken off the dole to build the 1.1billion Olympic Park - despite vows the 2012 Games would aid poor boroughs.

Sweet he is not. But Sir Alan is soon to become Lord Sugar and he will join the Government in a role to promote entrepreneurship.

Nick Cotton has this demon king quality. On Tuesday, wreathed in sulphurous smoke in the flaming doorway of Kaf's caf, he vanished.

Defeating rightwing ideology in inner London relies on educating and encouraging a generation of young people to vote I thought that I should do my bit.

The bodies of a man, woman and child have been found at the foot of Beachy Head in Sussex.

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