START 2022 as you mean to go on – not being a potato on your couch, but going for a bracing run. East Londoners need look no further than Victoria Park to stretch their legs on a 5k, 10k or ...
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Don’t pass the smoking habit on to your kids
IT IS OFFICIAL: children whose parents or carers smoke are more likely to take up smoking themselves, as teenagers or even in later life. That’s another good reason to start the New Year by stopping smoking. Non-smokers will often describe ...
Read More »Find man wanted in connection with indecent exposure
BUS PASSENGERS should be able to travel safely, without being threatened by predatory men. This is why police are keen to find a man who exposed himself on an East London bus last month. The incident occurred between 7.30 and ...
Read More »The Thames today
TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...
Read More »One Bill; one Mosque; and two MPs
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS has managed to pass the Government’s controversial Nationality and Borders Bill, which is now being debated in the House of Lords. It remains to be seen whether the “revising chamber” of Parliament will amend it before ...
Read More »Newham murder: man appears in Court
ON BOXING DAY, a woman was killed in Newham. Just two days later, on 28th December, a man appeared at Thames Magistrates Court, charged with murdering her. The victim’s body was found at a residential property in Earlham Grove, E7. ...
Read More »The Thames today
TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...
Read More »Medact plans campaigns on climate and health
ACTIVIST MEDICS are appealing for funds to help them continue work on the effects of climate change on human health. The campaigners are looking to raise £10,000 to continue their work after a disappointing COP26. Medact’s roots are in the ...
Read More »The Thames today
TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...
Read More »Redbridge Town Hall tops Xmas vaccine table
OVER 200,000 anti-Covid vaccinations were undertaken across the UK over the Christmas break – with Redbridge Town Hall dishing out the highest number of vaccinations of any site in the country. In London, 54,307 vaccinations – including 3,478 first doses ...
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