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THE WHOLE community was shaken when a Leicester shop, and the flat above it, were devastated by a massive explosion and then engulfed in a massive ball of flames last Sunday, 25th February. The blaze and its aftermath totally destroyed ...

A LARGE PART of the Labour Manifesto has been revealed to the world by a Tower Hamlets Labour Party Officer – apparently in advance of any formal launch of the document as a whole. Adam Allnutt has quoted the document ...

BILLY GRAHAM – the first evangelist Christian preacher to devote himself to reaching a mass market – has died at his home in North Carolina in the USA. He was 99 years old. Graham would book up arenas and stadia ...

THE CHIPS WERE DOWN at Kentucky Friend Chicken (KFC) outlets across the UK yesterday – but it wasn’t the fault of their potatoes. Over 450 KFC outlets were closed for business as they couldn’t get any chicken. Thousands of disgruntled ...

THE MAN who raped and murdered six year old Zainab Ansari in Pakistan and left her body on a rubbish dump has been sentenced to death by a Pakistani court. He had kidnapped the little girl from her aunt’s house. ...

IT’S NOT CONCLUSIVE, but a new study by French researchers has found a link between eating highly processed foods and the incidence of cancer. A “link” is not the same as proof of causation, but the findings are still significant. ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE are taking a new model of organisation – piloted in East London – and rolling it out across the capital. No more will each borough have its own police force, as new Basic Command Units (BCUs) will ...

JOHN BIGGS had a busy evening last week, on the fourth Thursday of the month. By the time he reached Newham to attend a charity dinner in aid of combating acid attacks, he had been to three other meetings already ...

IT TOOK Daniel Osborne a couple of minutes to kill Makram Ali and injure several bystanders. It took nine days to try him for murder and attempted murder. It took the jury less than an hour to convict him. Osborne ...

SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, is reported to be fighting for his political life as he goes through a Labour Party “trigger ballot” to determine whether he will be Labour’s candidate for mayor at this May’s elections. In most ...