LABOUR’S TRISTRAM HUNT has resigned as an MP to become the new Director of the V&A museum. There will have to be a by-election in his Stoke Central constituency and already political commentators in the mainstream media are frothing at ...

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 ...

A TRIP TO BUY A Christmas tree turned out to be an expensive outing for one East London woman. She left her handbag on the driver’s seat of her car as she loaded the tree into the boot. Once the ...

YORK HALL WILL see a “battle of the unbeaten” on 11th March, when local E2 resident Jamie Arlain takes on Southampton’s Jimmy Cooper in the Kevin Campion promoted show “Knuckle 2 Knuckle”. For one of the two lightweights, it will ...

POLICE SERGEANT Weeden’s courage has apprehended a street robbery suspect in Hackney. Sergeant Weeden was patrolling along Stoke Newington High Street near the junction with Tyson Street, N16, just after 5.30pm on Wednesday, 11th January. She saw a man conducting ...

ARE YOU LOOKING after your amygdala? No, we didn’t know we had one either. The amygdala is a small group of cells deep inside the medial temporal lobe (roughly, on the side of your head above the ear). The cells ...

LEN McCLUSKEY, General Secretary of the Unite trade union, has given his full support to a government campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage – but he has warned that sanctions on employers who are found out breaking the ...

GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...