WE ALL WANT the Metropolitan Police to become more aware of what kind of service women and girls living in London want from their officers. For their part, we know the Met are keen to regain the trust of the ...

Jebu Rahman LENA PIERCE (96) was only 13 years old when she gave birth to Eva May in a New York hospital on 11th February 1933. Pierce was a ward of the state, and her child was taken away from ...

ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...

Emdad Rahman Sadrul Amin is using April to take part in a solo charity feat to raise awareness and also funds for charity. The 35 year old from Newham has only been running for three years and started doing so ...

LAST SEPTEMBER the Home Office launched a scheme called StreetSafe in an attempt to make London’s streets safer for the public. Just eight months later, the Metropolitan Police have had 3,272 reports of unsafe areas – nearly 75% of which ...

ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...

LONDON RIDERS will be playing in the National Cricket League for the first time this year. Jumma Khan, a cricketer and owner of the newly created Cricket Club, hopes the community will support the team during its first season. Khan, ...

HE’LL BE detained for a decade, after Snaresbrook Crown Court sentenced him to seven years in prison and three further years on licence thereafter – for a series of stabbings carried out at random in Hackney. The jailed man is ...

Muhi Mikdad FOR THE PAST seven years, Ashid Ali, principal of the London Enterprise Academy (LEA), has been organising the many cultural events held at the school. Mr Ali is one of the few British-Bangladeshi headteachers in the UK. To ...

A HACKNEY MAN has been charged with the murder of Yasmin Begum, 40, who died in Bethnal Green on 24th March. The man who was charged has been named as Quyum Miah, 40, of High Street, Homerton. He was also ...