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PASSENGERS USING Custom House Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station had better enjoy the experience while it lasts. Building work to improve the station will begin on Friday, 3rd February and last until the end of the year – resulting in ...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses to a fatal collision which happened in Dagenham at approximately 16.15hrs last Tuesday afternoon, 10th January. The collision involved a motorcycle. No other vehicles were involved. An ambulance attended, but sadly the 20 year old ...

POLICE HAVE asked the public to help find Bobby Russell of Waltham Forest Mr Russell, 24, was last seen at around noon on Wednesday, 11th January on Warren Road, E4.  Police and Mr Russell’s family are growing worked about his ...

THE TOWER HAMLETS Parent and Carer survey remains open for just one more week, until 15th January. Residents are being invited to give their views on a range of services which are used by children or those looking after them. ...

OVER 10,000 owners of VW motor vehicles are planning to launch a group action in the High Court later this month. They are seeking compensation for having been sold vehicles which were programmed to pass emissions tests but exceed emissions limits ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has urged residents to use the New Year to make a fresh start and give up smoking and curb their drinking of alcohol. Labour’s John Biggs promoted the stance by warning residents to pull their socks up ...

INDEPENDENT COUNCILLOR Mahbub Alam saw the seasonal break as a chance to take a few days rest and recuperation from his busy schedule. He and eleven family members booked up a holiday cottage in the village of Rhayader, Powys, in ...

THE RICH MIX team are wishing their supporters a happy new year. The cultural centre is remembered in Tower Hamlets for winning generous public subsidy and in particular for the controversial £850,00 loan it received from the Council some years ...

Emdad Rahman AN EAST END charity is appealing for help to support some of London’s most needy citizens. The Whitechapel based Human Relief Foundation (HRF) is calling on local residents to make generous donations of food as well as other essentials. These will ...

A CANADIAN research team has found that the rate of dementia in the population is higher among those who live near busy roads. The research followed a massive sample – nearly two million people – in Ontario over eleven years ...