COUNCILLORS IN Tower Hamlets have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again about how the Council’s housing stock is managed. Their main concern was the very flimsy consultation exercise on which the Mayor relied when he took his recent ...

TEAM ENGLAND notched up some creditable performances at the European Team Athletics Championships held over the weekend in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Richard Kilty came to Poland with two Commonwealth Games medals to his credit. Once at the Championships, he won the ...

POLICE ARE looking for Phillip Durand, 31, as they wish to question him in connection with incidents of stalking and common assault. Durand is from Ilford, but he is known to spend time in Romford and parts of Essex. He ...

ORIENT’S FIRST away match of the League Two season ended in disappointment, as the team came away from Macclesfield Town with a 3-0 defeat. Opinion was mixed about the reasons for the defeat, but – one way or another – ...

A YOUNG, WHITE Norwegian citizen has been charged with murder in the aftermath of a shooting incident at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in the town of Baerum, on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. No one was killed when the ...

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 ...

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A SERIOUS collision with a car last night has put a cyclist in an East London hospital, where he is in a critical condition. The police are appealing for any witnesses to come forward. The emergency services were called out ...

AN INFATUATION with a woman which he failed to control has landed Andrew Costa-Freeman, 24, of Lonsdale Avenue, Newham, a two year jail sentence. The case was brought after a rigorous investigation by police officers at the Stalking Threat Assessment ...

POLICE ARE worried about Mohamed Sharif, 18, who has been missing since 3rd August. He is believed to have links with Tower Hamlets, and in particular with Shadwell. •Anyone who sees Mohamed or has any information about his whereabouts is ...