TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has defended its practice of asking residents to sign into its website before completing online surveys – claiming the practice is more convenient and “robust”. A few days ago we reported that Tower Hamlets Council was asking ...

A LARGE TEAM from the Island Network has delivered support to Isle of Dogs residents who live in sheltered housing in E14. The team, led by Island Network Chair Md Maium Miah, visited John Tucker House, Mary Jones Court and ...

POLICE ARE investigating a strange incident which took place in Homerton High Street in the early hours of 20th May. Police were called out after shots were heard. They arrived at the scene and found an abandoned BMW motor vehicle, ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

A MAN HAS DIED after being shot in Clapton late on Friday night, 5th June. The incident occurred in Brackenfield Close, E5 at approximately 11.30pm. The victim is thought to be in his 20s. The police and the London Ambulance ...

WHILE scientists and politicians weigh up the reasons why Black and Ethnic Minority communities are suffering disproportionately high infection and death rates from Coronavirus, the healthworkers’ campaign Medact has revealed that some black and/or migrant patients are being questioned over ...

IT SEEMS to have been an unprovoked attack, carried out by a group of young women in Shoreditch Park, N1, at approximately 7.30pm on 27th February. The victim was also a woman – in her 20s. The victim was walking ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? This month we have been considering “thoughts” from various iconoclasts who are looking for, or have worked for, change – in favour of freedom, equality and justice for the many. Can we grasp ...