WITH THE FIFA Women’s World Cup reaching its final stages, there’s a huge welling of interest in football from hundreds of women players – including East End teenagers. And interested teenagers need look no further than to Leyton Orient for ...
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US hate-criminal gets life after Charlottesville murder
IT’S LIFE IN prison for James Alex Fields Jr, 22 – an active member of the far right in the USA. And as he prepared to be sentenced, he apologised for killing 32 year old anti-Nazi protestor Heather Heyer. No ...
Read More »Moeen Ali sets sights on Virat Kohli
ENGLAND MEET INDIA on Sunday in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup. The match is going to be played at Edgbaston – and England all-rounder Moeen Ali has a game plan. Ali is hoping he will be the one to ...
Read More »Dangerous person missing in Newham
NEWHAM POLICE are appealing to the public to help them find Zilvanas Kareiva, who has gone missing from the Newham Centre for Mental Health. A warning comes with the appeal: Kareiva could be dangerous. Anyone who sees him is warned ...
Read More »Police on Lawrence case face investigation
THE STORY OF the murder of Stephen Lawrence isn’t over, as two detectives are now to be questioned in connection with apparent failings in the police investigation of the crime committed over 26 years ago. Stephen was standing at a ...
Read More »Woman dies in collision in Romford
A COLLISION between a motor vehicle and a female pedestrian led to the death of the pedestrian, a 22 year old woman. Her next of kin are aware of the tragedy. The collision occurred just before 9pm on Wednesday, 19th ...
Read More »Is women’s cricket coming to the Commonwealth Games?
SHE CAPTAINED the England Cricket Team which won the Women’s Cricket World Cup held in England just two years ago. Now Heather Knight has welcomed the news that women’s cricket may be one of the new sports being played at ...
Read More »Man arrested after suspicious fires across East London
ARE THEY arson attacks? And are they hate crimes? These are the questions being asked as police investigate a series of small fires which have taken place across East London in recent days. •It began on Wednesday, 19th June, when ...
Read More »Volunteer focus: MFA Zaman
IN 2019, the ICC Cricket World Cup returned to England for the first time in 20 years. Over one million people are expected to attend matches and World Cup action in England and Wales this summer. MFA Zaman became part ...
Read More »The Thames Today
TODAY we look south west from the bridge in the middle of Millwall Dock. It’s a curious mixture of the old and the new. The once proud cranes which towered over the docks, helping to haul the cargo to shore, ...
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