BREAKING NEWS: An elderly woman remains in shock this afternoon (Thursday, 17th September) after two men tricked their way into her flat on the Ocean estate. The men were both white and described themselves as legitimate visitors. It is not ...

THE STORY OF yet another East London stabbing is heading towards the courts, as police conclude their investigations by charging two young men with murder. Mohammed Mirza was murdered nearly a year ago – he was founded stabbed in Fullwell ...

IT’S  SEPTEMBER. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900 •Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

IT’S TIME TO TALK! After months of insisting that it was the end of the road for negotiating over new contracts for Council staff, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has agreed to meet Unison to talk about the ongoing ...

IT WAS life imprisonment for Aman Vyas, 36, sentenced at last for a series of assaults and rapes and, finally, murder. It took a painstaking police operation that went on for over a decade to bring him to justice. Vyas ...

AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what has been said about ...

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 ...

POLICE STOPPED a minicab as it went through Epsom on 19th March this year – a stop that was part of an operation against firearm offences. Immediately, one of the two back seat passengers admitted he had a gun in ...

AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what has been said about ...

AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what has been said about ...