ROBBERIES AND THEFTS are on the increase (according to the Office for National Statistics) – and the news has prompted the company Locksmith to see how individual London boroughs are affected. Top of the list is Newham, in sixth place with ...

A SQUAD OF 18 athletes have been chosen to go to the Commonwealth Games in Australia’s Gold Coast in April and take part in the weightlifting and powerlifting competitions. The Games begin on 5th April. The Team England weightlifters will ...

FORTUNATELY, it’s not the US President himself who will be visiting the Royal Borough. Over 1.8 million people signed a petition against Donald Trump being invited to visit the UK – enough to force a debate in Parliament but not ...

IF YOUR NEW YEAR’S resolutions included stopping using tobacco – by smoking or by chewing – Tower Hamlets Council is offering the support which could be crucial to helping you to quit for good. With Tower Hamlets having one of ...

DONALD TRUMP probably didn’t use the flimsy excuse “I’m washing my hair” when he decided not to come to the UK next month – but he has ducked out of the chance to open the new US embassy. When Trump ...

DETECTIVES conducting a murder hunt following the killing of Daniel Frederick have made a fresh appeal to the public for information – as they make their first arrest. Frederick, 34, was found in the evening of 8th January, outside Burns ...

Emdad Rahman CAPITAL KIDS CRICKET (CKC) brings cricket to children across London – boys and girls, children who just haven’t accessed the sport and those who need extra help so they can play. Now the organisation has a new logo. It ...

POLICE ARE looking for Parminder Thindh, 36, who is described as 5ft 8ins tall and of medium build. They want to speak to him in connection with a sexual assault which took place on a bus in Manor Park, Newham, ...

A WOMAN WHO was found fatally stabbed in Norfolk Road, Ilford on 3rd January has been named. She is Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, a Romanian national who was living in Ilford. Ms Lacatusu was formally identified on 9th January. Genu Armeanu, ...

NEW RESEARCH commissioned by London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that a “hard Brexit” could subdue economic growth for ten years – handing London “a lost decade of lower growth”. The warning comes from Cambridge Econometrics, a company commissioned by ...