CONCERNS ARE growing for the welfare of Abdi Ali, 18, from Enfield. His family last saw him on 11th December 2017, after a family wedding. He is described as a black teenager, and of slim build. Abdi has been known ...

IF YOU ARE 15 years old and you go to a fast food shop with your friends, you expect to have a good time. You don’t expect to have your arm broken and you certainly don’t want to hear a ...

THE COLLAPSE OF Carillion is more than just one private company failing – and the Labour Party has been combining several strands of attack to make the Government wake up to the problem. Since the construction and related services company ...

POLICE HAVE MADE a new appeal for information as they continue to investigate a fatal stabbing in Plashet Park, Forest Gate. To date, three suspects have been charged – two with murder. Moosakhan Nasiri died on 15th October. It was ...

THE HEAD OF THE Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Janet Davies, has called on the Government to “lift the NHS out of this dangerous and downward spiral.” She was referring to information received by the BBC which shows that thousands ...

LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS thought they were going to a routine incident when they were called out, in the early morning on Monday, 29th May, to deal with a car which had caught fire in an Ilford car park. Within minutes of ...

TOWER HAMLETS’ Trading Standards Officers’ faces lit up as they surveyed their latest haul of illicit tobacco – seized from retailers across the borough after a six week long crackdown. Officers went around the borough and made test purchases from ...

EAST HAM RESIDENT Ahmet Dobran, 82, went out on the evening of Sunday, 27th August last year – little realising that his life was about to change for ever. He was brutally attacked and never really recovered. Now his life ...

GREEN AND ECO-CONSCIOUS mums may well be heading back to Iceland to do their shopping, as the supermarket has announced a war on plastic wrapping. It’s set itself the target of being plastic-free within five years. Campaigners have been pointing ...

A RANGE OF dignitaries gathered at Parsloes Park on Monday to for a ground-breaking ceremony – literally. A spade was ceremonially plunged into the turf to start building works on a major new facility for the borough’s young people. The ...