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 ...

POLICE HAVE APPEALED for witnesses to come forward after a man riding a motorbike was seriously injured when he collided with the kerb and a road sign on the A13. The incident happened at around 8.12pm on Thursday, 1st August ...

A MASSIVE POLICE investigation – Operation Halmist – has secured the conviction of two more men who had been running drugs out of London on the County Lines system. The two were found guilty, after an eight week trial at ...

DESPITE HOPES that the Bangladesh Cricket Team might be able to claw a consolation victory in the last of the three One Day International (ODI) matches, Sri Lanka emerged the victors after a strong batting performance. Sri Lanka had been ...

INDIAN PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi has tweeted his delight at the decision of the India Parliament to criminalise the “triple talaq” divorce allowed in the Muslim religion. In 2017 the Indian Supreme Court declared the triple talaq was unconstitutional. A ...