IT IS “thanks to the bigotry of a few” was what rebel Labour MP Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Yardley part of Birmingham told the BBC. She was reacting to a decision by the City Council to ban protests ...

HACKNEY POLICE are looking for people who had their phones stolen in or around Old Street and Pitfield Street on 30th or 31st May. A man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of mobile phones in the area, and ...

THE COUNCIL has a new “Speaker” – Cllr Victoria Obaze, who was elected at the AGM on 15th May. But will she be a dignitary who sits in the Town Hall or one who comes out and confronts difficult issues ...

A MAN WITH A controlling personality finally lost control – and brutally murdered his wife. This is the essence of a longer story which the Old Bailey listened to for ten days – before convicting Muhammad Javed, 59, of Staines ...

HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid is the second leading Tory to be accused of an abuse of power in the last few days. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawer to Shamima Begum, has written to him with the accusation. Shamima Begum was one ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 3 You don’t have to be a millionaire, a big shot, a celebrity to bring about change. If that were the case, then why do many people carry out unpaid service – stating that a simple ...

TWO TEENAGERS both had lucky escapes when they were injured as a large brawl took place in Globe Road, Bethnal Green, E2 on Friday, 17th May – and police are trying to piece together what happened. Police and the London ...

BREAKING NEWS: Police have cordoned off roads outside West Ham Tube Station following a serious road traffic accident which occurred just after midnight. First eyewitness reports indicate that a vehicle was speeding in the area and it then appeared that ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 4 I was supposed to chill before leaving today but, being the great leader that he is, I was invited by Human Relief Foundation big Chief Kassim Tokan to visit the Bourj El Barajne, one of ...

TWO TEENAGERS have been charged with the murder of Alimuz Zaman in St Paul’s Way last Sunday, 26th May. Each teen was also charged with one count of Grievous Bodily Harm in connection with an attack on a second victim, ...