TWO MEN were arrested at a property in Willoughby Drive, Dagenham at the end of last month. The arrests came after the police obtained search warrants and conducted an early morning raid on the property. The police found a shotgun, ...

WORRIED MOTHERS are asking where the Council consultation on closure of the Local Authority Day Nurseries (LADN) is – not least because the Cabinet report proposed to begin formal closure in “late July 2018”. “We’ve had a week already,” said ...

TEN PEOPLE escaped injury when fire broke out in the basement of a property in Clissold Crescent, Hackney, on 20th June. An investigation revealed the fire was started deliberately – and police are now looking for a suspect who was ...

IT WAS SIX YEARS for conspiracy to rob and three years for conspiracy to steal when Richard Flanagan, 27, of Heathfield Park Drive, Romford, was sentenced at Snaresbook Crown Court last month. The sentences are to run concurrently. The Court ...

BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters and police are attending a fire in Ramsey Street, Bethnal Green. Ramsey Street is in the north-west corner of the junction between Vallance Road and Three Colts Lane.  It is thought that the fire broke out shortly ...

THEY MAY HAVE come out in their  thousands to vote for him in two months ago – 44,865 of them, up from just 32,754 in 2015 – but Tower Hamlets voters were not coming out to Executive Mayor John Biggs’s Ask ...

A FURTHER ARREST has been made in the investigation of an incident which took place in Shacklewell Lane on 6th May – during which a noxious substance was used as a weapon. This brings the number of arrests to seven. ...

A COLLISION took place between a pedestrian and a No. 23 bus in the High Street in Stratford at approximately 1.30pm on Wednesday, 20th June. The emergency services, including the air ambulance, attended – but sadly the pedestrian, a 63 ...

JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...

A MAN WHO launched a premeditated, vicious attack on his girlfriend which killed her within minutes has been convicted of murder and jailed for life – with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 28 years. The jury took ...