ARE THEY arson attacks? And are they hate crimes? These are the questions being asked as police investigate a series of small fires which have taken place across East London in recent days. •It began on Wednesday, 19th June, when ...
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TODAY we look south west from the bridge in the middle of Millwall Dock. It’s a curious mixture of the old and the new. The once proud cranes which towered over the docks, helping to haul the cargo to shore, ...
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EAST LONDON football team Leyton Orient has announced details of its youth season ticket schemes, which offer a very affordable way of getting young people involved in live football. The Club is helping all those parents who are trying to ...
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A MAN WILL appear at Snaresbrook County Court on Friday, 28th June in connection with the death of Steven Kennedy on 30th May. Mr Kennedy, 61, died after being assaulted in Plaistow Park. The man due to attend court is ...
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IT IS JUST OVER 70 years since the National Health Service (NHS) was established in the UK. It clung to one basic principle: everyone pays in according to their income; everyone receives healthcare according to their need. In recent years ...
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TOWER HAMLETS police are feeling the pinch of Tory Government cuts – and Limehouse Police Station is now closed to the public, making it much harder to report non-emergency crime. The Limehouse Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) is trying to keep ...
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TWO CHILDREN have lost their mother after a series of medics failed to spot that she had a life-threatening condition – sepsis. The terrible story was revealed at an inquest into the death of Shahida Begum, which happened last July. ...
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THIS BEAUTIFUL partnership of housing and water calms the soul and must be peaceful to live in. The homes, reflected in the water, create an air of symmetry and order. The water is a short outlet from Blackwall Basin that ...
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WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. Half ...
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A GROUP OF MEN disturbed the peace in Stepney… by launching an attack on a vehicle. The men were armed with machetes and axes. Fortunately police officers from the Metropolitan Police Response Team B turned out quickly. The driver of ...
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London Bangla A Force for the community…