“IT’S TOO LITTLE, too late” claim East London health campaigners in response to Boris Johnson’s cash handout to the NHS. With the Labour Party revealing doubts that the funding includes any new money, health activists say that in any event, ...

TOP HAMMER THROWER Taylor Campbell has opened the second phase of his 2019 season – with a personal best. The Team England player threw 74.26 metres on Sunday, 4th August at the 2019 International Throwing Meeting in Leiria, Portugal. The ...

MALACHI SERVIS is just nine years old. For now. It’s his birthday tomorrow, Monday, 5th August. He is also missing from his home in Homerton. STORY UPDATE: Hackney police have reported that Malachi Servis has been found safe and well. ...

WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. Half ...

A FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT will be held this afternoon to try to give young people in Barking & Dagenham a positive focus – helping the general community campaign against knife crime. The event has been organised by the Hedgecock Community Centre ...

POLICE ARE TRYING to trace a man caught on CCTV after a man was stabbed in a shop on Upper Clapton Road, Hackney, E5. The stabbing occurred at approximately 2.20pm on Wednesday, 10th July. The victim, a man in his ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has been found out refusing to host a charity event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – on the grounds that it might be construed as anti-semitic. An article in The Guardian today has revealed that ...

POLICE HAVE renewed their appeal for members of the public to come forward if they witnessed a collision on Westferry Road between a motorcyclist and a bollard. The incident occurred at approximately 1.30am on Saturday, 27th July, at the junction ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE has confirmed that today, Friday, 2nd August, is the first day of the month of Hajj, Dhu Al-Hijjah. The Day of Arafat will be on Saturday, 10th August. Eid al-Adha will be on Sunday, 11th August. ...

LONDON’S AIR AMBULANCE came in to land at West Ham’s Rush Green training ground earlier this week – to celebrate the Ambulance’s 30th anniversary. The Air Ambulance began its work in 1989. It operates from 8am to sunset every day ...