CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...

THERE WAS A serious assault in Chingford last October – and police have not given up their quest to find their suspect. Detectives undertaking the investigation have now released CCTV footage of a man they wish to question. It was ...

AMID VERY difficult economic circumstances, public sector bodies have come together across East London to help young people aged 16 to 24 who have a learning disability to find employment. The partners in the scheme – Project SEARCH – are ...

BREAKING NEWS: Reports are coming in of an accident on Mile End Road near the junction with Southern Grove – just before Mile End Tube Station. There is no information on what happened or whether anyone has been injured. Drivers ...

IT HAS BEEN a long and painstaking investigation – but the work of the Metropolitan Police has finally paid off as two further men have been convicted of killing Raja Ali in Dagenham in 2016. The two new convicts are: ...

A NEW INITIATIVE has been set up to encourage London residents to use their parks. Working with the slogan #GoParksLondon, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the London Friends of Greenspaces Network have come together to popularise parks. The ...

A MAN WHO committed robberies across East London, as well as carrying out two bomb hoaxes, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week – with an order that he serve at least seven years. Omar Farooq, ...

THE ANTI-WAR movement across the UK was true to its word – turning out protestors in their tens of thousands to demonstrate that US President Donald Trump was not welcome in the UK. Trump hopped around Britain, avoid the protests ...

BURGLARY WENT wrong – but, even so, Paul Hensley, 57, of Code Street, E1, was given a six year prison sentence. Hensley appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court last Friday, where he was convicted of attempted robbery and possession of an ...

COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...