Since the Tories headed up the Coalition after the 2010 General Election, they have been making cuts in public spending and presiding over austerity measures which have made life harder for ordinary Eastenders. Government attacks such as the bedroom tax ...

It’s hard to keep a secret in Tower Hamlets – so all credit to East End Homes for keeping the outcome of their meeting last week totally under wraps. By way of context, you should know that when Labour Councillors ...

Officers are appealing for witnesses to a fatal collision on the A12 in Chadwell Heath. Police were called at 22:15hrs on Sunday, 20th July to a Vauxhall Corsa in collision with barriers on the A12 near to the Moby Dick ...

Operation Valour is a project commemorating the police officers from K Division (what is now Newham, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham boroughs) who enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War and were subsequently killed in ...

Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of 14-year-old River Bovell-Reid who left an address where he was staying in Newham and was reported missing to police at 13:00hrs on 16th July. Police have had a reported sighting of ...

Police are becoming increasingly concerned to know the whereabouts of 14-year-old Ellie Austin who has been missing from an address where she was staying in Somerset since 16:40hrs on Sunday, 29th June. Ellie, who is originally from Romford, is a ...

Local businesses have joined with Barking and Dagenham Police to fight theft of number plates. In the last two years 935 reports of stolen vehicle number plates have been received by Barking and Dagenham Police. This means that more than ...

The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has released details of its Summer Gathering. The event will be on Sunday, 24th August at Spitalfields City farm, between 12 noon and 5pm. As usual there will be workshops, stalls and a tour of ...

Emdad Rahman went on a stadium tour at Glasgow Rangers. Mohammed and I popped up to Glasgow for the day – a city with an abundance of history. Our first port of call was the historic Ibrox Stadium – to ...

British strawberries just encapsulate summer. Gently cooking fresh strawberries with dried hibiscus flowers, a little chilli and fructose sugar in a sealed bowl over hot water brings out and captures the very essence of summer. Keep the nectar in the ...