A FIGHT at a music event in Ilford nearly a year ago led to the death of Akeem Dylon Barnes, who was known as Dylon. On 6th November, Jean Marc Dable, 25 and of no fixed abode, appeared at the ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.” Groucho Marx ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.” Milton Jones, comedian ●Read more about it: Thought ...

IT’S COLD and wet outside and there’s a Lockdown throughout the UK. Just as you were thinking that this is no way to celebrate Diwali (the festival of light, not the festival of gloom), along comes the Desi remix of ...

A TEENAGER has been charged with causing Grievous Bodily Harm with intent and possession of a bladed article. The charges come after an incident in Ripple Road which took place just before 2pm on 27th October.  Police were called to ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “Thank God for Darwin, eh?” Bill Bailey, comedian ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

A MAN HAS died in a fire in a first floor flat in Ellsworth Street, Bethnal Green. The death was confirmed by the London Fire Brigade. The fire was reported to the Brigade at 3.46am. Firefighters from Whitechapel and Shadwell ...

YOU CAN help raise money for Mayflower pupils by getting sponsored for you own Covid-safe individual or family event. You can set your own distance and decide whether you will run, walk or cycle. The sponsorship money raised will go ...

THE NEWS that Whipps Cross Hospital is to be re-built was welcomed by everyone in East London – but as soon as the move was announced, campaigners began to press for the plans to include safeguards to benefit the local ...

POLICE CONTINUE to investigate the fatal shooting of a 30 year old man in Balfour Road, Ilford, one week on from the crime. The investigation is being conducted by the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Command (Homicide). STORY UPDATE: Mushin Mohamed, ...