Emdad Rahman A TEAM OF volunteers on the renowned Gascoigne Estate in Barking has launched a new community foodbank to support local people. The Al Noor Cultural & Educational Trust Foodbank is based on the estate, which sits in one ...
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Police appeal for witnesses to fatal collision in Dagenham
A MAN HAS been identified, found, arrested and charged with causing death by dangerous driving after a collision in Dagenham left the driver of another vehicle dead at the scene of the accident. Police were called out just after 6am ...
Read More »Thought for today 14.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. Today is different: here we have a quote from ...
Read More »What3words keeps veg stall going through Lockdown
WHAT DOES a market stall do during a Coronavirus Lockdown? That was the question FruitDesk – a family run business which has sold fruit from a stall in Leather Lane market, near Farringdon, for over 40 years – asked itself. ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 years on/6
POP MUSIC was once so new and daring: it’s shocking to think that it’s over 50 years old. Some standards have been around for over half a century… What, then, were we listening to 50 years ago? It was an ...
Read More »Poplar man jailed for supplying cocaine
IT TOOK eight months for Perry Rickenberg, 23, of Ricardo Street, E14 to be sentenced – but pleading guilty to charges related to the supply of drugs has now seen him sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. ...
Read More »Thought for today 13.05.20
WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. One of the biggest dangers in creating the new ...
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