MOST LONDONERS are following the restrictions of the third lockdown – but a small number are involved in flagrant or silly breaches. In response, the Metropolitan Police have made it clear they will enforce the law. The need to keep ...

COVID CONTINUES – and so does the Island Network. Volunteers spent the first month of the new year delivering food supplies to elderly and vulnerable residents on the Isle of Dogs. The team of 15 volunteers, under the capable command ...

POLICE HOPE that members of the public will help them identify a man to whom they wish to speak in connection with an incident which took place in Beckton on Sunday, 6th December. It was just before midnight when a ...

IT’S A FIRST for the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – which has just elected its first woman leader. She is Zara Mohammed. Also contesting the election was Ajmal Masroor, who was the runner up. The MCB is an umbrella ...

A MAN HAS BEEN charged with murdering two men in Ilford. A post mortem has confirmed that both men, who were found at an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, on 10th January had died from stab injuries. The man charged ...

A KNIFE IS OFF the streets of East London, and a teenager will now have to face up to the consequences of having it in his possession following swift action by the police earlier this month. Officers from the Metropolitan ...

THE Hedgecock Community Centre (HCC) held its third AGM on Wednesday, 27th January 2021. This was their first HCC AGM to have been held online, via Zoom. The AGM was attended by 18 HCC members and local ward councillors, representatives ...

GUN CRIME is a serious problem in East London – but this is the first time we recall hearing of a man going out in the early hours to shoot a house.  It was around 3am on 12th January when ...

A LOCAL ICELAND supermarket has come under a shower of complaints as Poplar residents have realised they have similar complaints about the store – which does not appear to be operating Covid safety measures. The complaints were first aired by ...

THE FIGURE of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the UK has been described by the Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF) as a “grim milestone”. The MPF pointed out that every person who has died has left behind family and friends who ...