PATH COUNCILLORS have condemned John Biggs for throwing away £3.5 million of Council Tax-payers’ money on consultants to help him decide how to run the Council. The spend has been condemned as tantamount to privatising the community. The criticism from the People’s ...

Emdad Rahman A five wicket haul from Rokan Arafat Mashuk and another superb batting display from Junaed Rahman Tanin were the turning points as Barking & Dagenham outfit Scintilla CC wrapped up the season by lifting the Essex County Cricket ...

RICKY HAYDEN woke up at around 1.30am on 13th September last year. He looked out of his window and saw a group of men trying to steal a moped from outside his house. Ricky and his father went to investigate. ...

“I’M INCREDIBLY honoured to be nominated, let alone be shortlisted,” said PC Ben Forbes in response to the news that he is one of eight people from across the UK to have been shortlisted for a National Diversity Award. PC ...

A TEAM OF 14 police constables, two sergeants and an inspector from the Met Police have gone out to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to help with local law enforcement after Hurricane Irma devastated the area. The team flew out ...

HACKNEY STREETS are a tiny bit safer as this summer’s “Operation Sceptre” has seen police seize knives and drugs. The hauls come from a number of pro-active initiatives, including weapons sweeps – and led to a number of arrests. Among ...

THE CHARITY Human Appeal has been supplying aid to the Rohingya people in refugee camps on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh for nearly a year now – and the need is growing rather than diminishing. The crisis has been ...

WAS JUST AFTER 11pm on 18th March that police were called out to a flat in Wilberforce Road, Hackney, N4, after reports that two children had been injured. Police and the Ambulance Service attended. An ambulance took the two children ...

Emdad Rahman THE BANGLADESH Football Association (BFA) Summer League Cup finals, sponsored by the Sonali Bank, return to Mile End Stadium on Monday, 18th September. The vets Cup Final will see Newark face PervezChowdhury’s Sylhet FC. In the Sonali Bank cup ...

The Metropolitan Police and Equality and Human Rights Commission have issued the following statement on matters relating to discrimination within the Met. In September 2016 the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published the findings of their investigation into how ...