WITH EID HAVING been celebrated last week and the summer weather beckoning everyone outdoors, it’s fortunate that at least two major cities will be holding outdoor Eid Festivals this weekend. The Eid Festival at Old Trafford in Manchester is also ...

A MAN WHO terrorised families in a shopping centre as he sought to attack a man with a large hunting-style knife was sentenced to 18 months in jail at Snaresbook Crown Court earlier this month. During a hearing at the ...

“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s going ...

COREY JUNIOR DAVIS was just 14 years old when he was killed in another grim chapter of gang feuding in Newham. He died last September – but police have not given up their investigation. DCI Dave Whellams made a live ...

ON 12TH JUNE 40 volunteers from the DH Foundation held street collections in various parts of Tower Hamlets to help the poor and needy across Bangladesh. Working from 10am through to 9pm, the volunteer collectors raised nearly £4,000. The DH ...

A DISPUTE over a smoke alarm in a block of flats in Norbiton Road, E14, escalated – and now one of the residents involved is starting a two year jail sentence. Trouble began on 23rd July last year. A smoke ...

IT WAS 18 MONTHS imprisonment and a five year criminal behaviour order for Arbias Thaqi, 18, as he was sentenced at Stratford Youth Court earlier this week for offences relating to the possession of material related to Daesh and sharing ...

THE TORY Government has a failing record on building social homes, says John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary. Healey was speaking as new statistics were released showing that the number of government funded socially rented homes being built has ...

POLICE ARE SEARCHING for Anton Ward, 28, who is believed to live in the Hammersmith area. They wish to speak to him in connection with a violent assault which took place in Bow. Ward had made an arrangement on a ...

AS MILLIONS OF Muslims around the world celebrated Eid, violence was escalating in the strife-torn country of Yemen – and the Islamic Relief charity was stepping up its relief operations to meet the humanitarian consequences. Fighting intensified around the port ...