A POLICE OPERATION during January, focussed on reducing the incidence of robbery in Barking, saw the Longbridge Neighbourhood Policing Team make nine arrests. The team sent out enhanced patrols in Barking town centre, Barking Park, the Gascoigne Estate and Faircross ...

THE UK SIKH COUNCIL has called on Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to do more to halt human rights violations against farmers in India. They have asked him to raise UK concerns with India’s Government and in the United Nations. Problems ...

A MAN found guilty of three counts of writing anti-Semitic graffiti on bus stops in Stamford Hill has escaped with a community order by way of punishment. Antonio Santos, 61, of Cruikshank Street, Islington, admitted three counts of racially aggravated ...

IT WAS A big thank you to Vestey Foods Ltd earlier this week, as Island Network volunteers packed up food deliveries to take to elderly and needy residents on the Isle of Dogs. Donations had already been gratefully received from ...

A POLICE PATROL in the London Fields area, E8, has uncovered a number of knives, a small amount of cannabis and two motor vehicle registration plates. As the patrol went along Wilman Grove at around 6pm on 20th January, they ...

50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...

IT BEGAN AS a simple car stop. It was mid-January, it was Whitechapel Road, E1 – and the number plate on a passing vehicle was incorrect. Officers from the Violent Crime Taskforce, out on a proactive patrol, stopped the car. ...

THE ELECTION of Zara Mohammed as Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has been welcomed by the Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF), which sent Ms Mohammed a letter of congratulation. The MPF also issued a statement congratulating Ms ...

HE HAD pleaded guilty last October to multiple charges of abusing children – including sexual assault on a girl and on a boy, both under ten years of age, and making and distributing indecent images of children. In January he ...

IT TAKES FLAIR and imagination to cover the curry industry during a pandemic, as caterers respond to lockdown after lockdown – all with ever changing restriction. However, Channel S reporter Mohammed Jubair has risen to the challenge – and he ...