A-Level Results Day 2018 | Barking and Dagenham students celebrate another great year

A-Level students across Barking and Dagenham celebrated another stellar year for exam results. Nearly half of all Barking and Dagenham A-level students achieved A* to B grades with three-quarters of students receiving A* to C grades. This follows another successful academic year for Barking and Dagenham, with nine out of ten schools being deemed good or outstanding by Ofsted earlier in the year.

Windrush anniversary celebrated in Barking and Dagenham

To mark the 70th anniversary of it's arrival, Barking and Dagenham Council organised a celebration held at Barking Town Hall. Featuring live music as well as speeches from the High Commissioner of Jamaica and Patrick Vernon OBE, the event focused on the positive impact the Windrush generation had on Britain, especially the NHS.

Barking and Dagenham at Pride London [2018]

For the first time in London Pride’s 46-year history, Barking and Dagenham Council were invited to attend the parade.

As part of the celebrations, two young people from Barking and Dagenham College designed an LGBTQIA+ mural and Pride parade t-shirts for everyone attending the parade to wear.

Watch all of the highlights from the parade here as Barking and Dagenham showed its Pride and support for the LGBTQIA+ community in the borough and beyond.

The woman behind London's new film studio | OBLive

We get behind the scenes of Barking and Dagenham's film industry and meet Head of Film LBBD's (Barking and Dagenham Council's film office) Lisa Dee. Lisa discusses the future of film in London. And talks about the female empowerment movement and what that means for the film industry.