HE DOESN’T always get it right. He has allowed architectural vandalism on Fish Island in Bow and equivocated over giving tenants power to resist developers making a profit out of them. But on Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE has issued the following statement. Eid Mubarak! The Co-ordination Committee of Mosques and Islamic Centres in London has announced: Eid al Fitr is on Tuesday 4 June 2019. May Allah forgive us and grant us a ...

HE WAS convicted of raping a young woman in the Spitalfields area of Tower Hamlets last year. And now Jonathan Graden, 29, of Hackney has had to admit to an earlier offence of a similar nature. Graden is currently in ...

EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...

THE LONDON FIRE Brigade has warned everyone to take care when holding a barbecue outdoors – or when discarding cigarettes. Last year London endured a spate of grass fires as the grass dried out and residents forgot how easily it ...

A MAN HAS been charged with Grievous Bodily Harm after an assault in Plaistow Park, E13, left a 61 year old man with a serious head injury. The incident took place in broad daylight, with police being called about at ...

IT IS “thanks to the bigotry of a few” was what rebel Labour MP Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Yardley part of Birmingham told the BBC. She was reacting to a decision by the City Council to ban protests ...

HACKNEY POLICE are looking for people who had their phones stolen in or around Old Street and Pitfield Street on 30th or 31st May. A man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of mobile phones in the area, and ...

THE COUNCIL has a new “Speaker” – Cllr Victoria Obaze, who was elected at the AGM on 15th May. But will she be a dignitary who sits in the Town Hall or one who comes out and confronts difficult issues ...

A MAN WITH A controlling personality finally lost control – and brutally murdered his wife. This is the essence of a longer story which the Old Bailey listened to for ten days – before convicting Muhammad Javed, 59, of Staines ...