Emdad Rahman A CONTROVERSIAL umpiring decision from Valli Patel was telling in a tense yet exciting Barking & Dagenham derby as Barking Cricket Club took the honours and completed the double over their local rivals. Barking had won the toss and ...

COUNCILLOR MAIUM MIAH is in the news again as he once more issues a call for the safety of his Canary Wharf Ward constituents to be taken seriously. The Councillor has launched a public petition calling for the Council to ...

CONOR BOLGER is just 15 years old. Normally he lives in Buxton, up in Derbyshire – but he has not been seen since 7th June. Conor has strong links to Hackney, and some associates report having seen him there since ...

POLICE ARE appealing for help in identifying two men in connection with a serious assault which took place in Poplar in February. The suspects have been at large for the last four months. The assault took place at in the ...

Emdad Rahman “Helping one person might not change the world but it could change the world for one person.” HALF OF homeless people are afflicted with diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or arthritis but do not receive any treatment. It’s a ...

A FIRE BROKE OUT late on Sunday night in a flat in a block on Cassilis Road – in the Canary Wharf Ward on the Isle of Dogs. Ward Councillor Maium Miah (Independent) was immediately on the scene. Cllr Miah immediately ...

DARREN OSBORNE has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. The 47 year old, who is from Cardiff, drove a hired van into a crowd of Muslims who had just left prayers at Mosque early on Monday morning. The ...

THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE (NAO), the government body which scrutinises public expenditure, has criticised the government proposal to build a nuclear energy plant (Hinckley C) in Somerset. This adds criticism of the finances of the plan to earlier concerns about ...

FARMERS ARE struggling to harvest summer crops of fruit and salads as the number of migrant workers prepared to come to the UK has slumped. The UK relies on some 80,000 workers to pick summer produce, most of whom come ...

MINISTER Theresa May has admitted in the House of Commons that tests on tower blocks since the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed that some of them have cladding which is “combustible”. The PM did not reveal details of which blocks ...