NEWARK YOUTH are celebrating their involvement in an unusual education programme which aims to help youngsters improve their educational achievement and aspirations in order to improve the chances of finding employment. The programme is “sporteducate”, which uses sport to engage ...

POLICE HAVE charged a man with the murder of Adetokunbo Jordan Ajobo, known as Jordan Ajobo, in Newham on 8th November. Ajobo was fatally stabbed after being set upon by a gang armed with machetes. Two men, both aged 21, ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE & Muslim Centre is seeking appoint a Media & Communications Manager – a newly created post to develop public relations which are becoming increasingly important for the Mosque and Centre. The successful applicant will have to ...

TWO CONSTABLES have been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police following case hearings held on 1st December. •PC Lucas Beach was based at the East Area Command Unit in Romford. He appeared at Basildon Crown Court on 29th June, where he pleaded guilty ...

THE TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) “School of excellence pupil-led project award 2017” was handed to the London Islamic School at City Hall last week. The presentation was made by Dr Will Norman, the London Mayor’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner. The ...

Six arrests were recently made in Operation Grandbye after police took sustained action to deal with what the potential danger to young women who had been seen hanging around with older men in and around Stratford Shopping Mall. Detective Inspector ...

SIX MEN HAVE been arrested in an operation launched by the Metropolitan Police Sexual Exploitation Team began Operation Grandbye at the start of November in an attempt to safeguard young girls in Newham. The Operation began after concerns grew about ...

Emdad Rahman Living on the street can be all consuming. Help us erase homelessness… There was plenty of banter among the team and our homeless friends last night at Booth House. One Third Soup Kitchen partnered up with the Human ...

HE TOLD Police: “I’m going to kill a Muslim. I’m doing this for Britain. This is the way I am going to help the country. You people can’t do anything. I am going to do it my way because that ...

POLICE HAVE charged Salman Ahmed, 22, of no fixed abode, with murder of Lamar Stewart. A 21 year old man who had been arrested on suspicion of murder is still on bail as detectives continue their investigation. Lamar lived in ...