The tales from Nonnatus House may form a huge part of the BBC drama but they are based on real-life events in Poplar, East ...

Call The Midwife was first broadcast 13 years ago and has since become one of the most loved period dramas in British TV ...

A fire that badly damaged the middle floors of a 19-storey London tower block has left two men in hospital. Four children and 38 adults were evacuated from the building in Poplar, London Fire ...

Around 40 firefighters from the London Fire Brigade have rushed to the site of a house fire in East Ham this morning. Six ...

With the new series of Call the Midwife on our screens, the popular BBC One drama set in Poplar, BBC London pays a visit to the real-life midwives of the east London area to see how they're ...

The long running BBC drama 'Call the Midwife' centres around the fictional Nonnatus House in Poplar - home to nuns and midwives. But it's also based on a building that still stands in east London ...

The drama set in Poplar, London first aired on the BBC in 2012 and was originally based on the books by Jennifer Worth and her time as a midwife in the East End of London during the 1950s.

The long-running series, which began in 2012, follows the lives of the midwives working in the deprived Poplar district of London's east End. But it's not all nuns' habits and blue nursing ...