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THE RISING SMOKE could be seen across East London this afternoon, raising fears that history was repeating itself and another high rise building was on fire. Fortunately, it quickly transpired that although a tall block of flats was indeed ablaze, ...

FOLLOWING A public inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, it has been revealed that six police officers are to be prosecuted. •Most significantly, David Duckenfield, who was a Chief Superintendent at the time and was in charge of police operations on ...

COUNCILLOR MAIUM MIAH is in the news again as he once more issues a call for the safety of his Canary Wharf Ward constituents to be taken seriously. The Councillor has launched a public petition calling for the Council to ...

A FIRE BROKE OUT late on Sunday night in a flat in a block on Cassilis Road – in the Canary Wharf Ward on the Isle of Dogs. Ward Councillor Maium Miah (Independent) was immediately on the scene. Cllr Miah immediately ...

DARREN OSBORNE has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. The 47 year old, who is from Cardiff, drove a hired van into a crowd of Muslims who had just left prayers at Mosque early on Monday morning. The ...

MINISTER Theresa May has admitted in the House of Commons that tests on tower blocks since the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed that some of them have cladding which is “combustible”. The PM did not reveal details of which blocks ...

HAVING BEEN to the House of Lords to open Parliament in the morning, the Prince of Wales visited Finsbury Park in the afternoon to meet people who had been present during Monday night’s attack and to visit the area – ...

NICHOLAS HOLGATE, Chief Executive of Kensington & Chelsea Council, has resigned in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. Holgate explained that the Government’s Communities and Local Government Secretary, the Rt Hon.Sajid Javid MP had told the Leader of Kensington ...

IMAGINE THE scenario. An unelected leader visits a country’s parliament – and sits in a chamber of unelected members of parliament and summons the elected representatives of the people to hear what the elected leader has sanctioned as the legislative ...

TOWER HAMLETS Independent Group of Councillors has marked the Queen’s Speech by sending an Open Letter to the two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets – Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) and Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow), The Letter deals ...