NOMINATIONS FOR THE first Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards (ARTA) opened last week at the House of Lords, with various dignitaries, many of Asian heritage, present to show their support. The launch was hosted by former Tower Hamlets councillor – ...

HISTORY WAS MADE at the meeting of Tower Hamlets Council last night, 17th January. No one was sure if this was the very first opposition motion which Labour had agreed to debate at a Council meeting – but the debate ...

IF YOU HAVE EVER wondered what a princess does all day, you’re now a little closer to finding out the answer – at least as far as the UK’s senior princess goes. HRH Princess Anne spent time last Wednesday at ...

ONE YOUNG MAN is lucky to be alive today after surviving a shooting in Newham on Tuesday this week. Police officers from the Metropolitan Police Trident and Area Crime Command have launched an investigation and are appealing for witnesses to ...

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 ...