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IT’S ANOTHER plan that is going nowhere. The Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza conflict, also known as the Gaza Peace Plan (GPP), signed by Israel and Hamas but brokered by US President Donald Trump, is stuck in political stalemate. ...

A HUGE PLUME of black smoke rose up from south west London earlier this evening, clearly visible across East London. Fifteen fire engines with around 100 firefighters are at the site. The fire is reported to be at the Deptford ...

A MAN has been charged with arson after a number of fires were started in London Fields, near Lansdowne Road in Hackney. The story began just after 5am on Saturday, 15th August when the emergency services received reports that a ...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has veered between escalating military action against Iran and backing peace talks. He’s agreed to ceasefires – and carry on firing. Now he’s giving even more signs that he does not know what he is doing. ...

COUNCIL TAX bills are up – as are so many household bills. Mayor Lutfur Rahman has stepped in to offer the poorest households assistance with paying them, as part of his work to help residents with the cost of living. ...

AS EXPECTED – not least by him – Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, has won the Clacton by-election. The by-election was called because the previous MP for Clacton, Nigel Farage, resigned and then stood again. It was less a ...

A CYCLIST who was seriously injured after being hit by a car in Stepney Green has died, three days after the collision. The accident happened in Aylward Street just after 11pm on Thursday, 6th August. The cyclist who died has ...

DONALD TRUMP has been left with egg on his face after two of his peace plans were torn up within days of each other. Iran has rejected the Memorandum of Understanding, and Israel has now rejected Trump’s Middle East Plan ...

THE TORIES have revealed their answer to the UK’s housing crisis: move non-British nationals out of social housing. It is the latest in a series of announcements from Kemi Badenoch’s Tory Party that are racist and, frankly, cuckoo. The policy ...

THE DEATH of a 14 year old boy, who drowned in Millwall Dock on 3rd August saddened the whole community. The teenager has now been named as Banta Sillah. Mayor Lutfur Rahman spoke for the whole community when he expressed ...