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THE DEATH OF Rashan Charles has once more highlighted issues of who has the power in UK society – and increased tension on the streets of London. A vigil outside Stoke Newington Police Station on Monday 24th July was largely ...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is known for tweeting reactionary and bigoted views and also for making up policy on the hoof. Sometimes he does both together – possibly in an effort to avoid the description often applied to his predecessor ...

ROMAN ROAD was the latest location of an attack on members of the public in which a liquid was used as a weapon. Police are appealing for witnesses. Police officers were alerted to the incident when they were flagged down ...

RASHAN CHARLES died during or shortly after he was restrained by police officers in a corner shop in Hackney in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police had stopped a car and it is alleged that Charles ran out of ...

THE STORY of the five year old child who was fined by Tower Hamlets Council for running a lemonade stall outside her home has gone around the world. The little girl set up her stall on the route taken by people going from the ...

Investigators will look into why a young man died after police chased him, caught him and pushed him to the ground. The incident took place in Hackney in the early hours of Saturday morning. Chief Superintendent Simon Laurence, Hackney Borough ...

THE GOVERNMENT  has been under great pressure in recent weeks from a group of women who facing waiting extra years before they receive the state pension. The women claimed that they had been relying on receiving their pension at a ...

TENSION HAS broken out between mosque leaders and the police over how a suspected arson attack on the Nasfat Islamic Centre in Manchester should be classified. The Centre, in Droylsden Road, Newton Heath, Manchester, caught fire on Sunday night. The fire ...

COURT ACTION taken by a group of traders has forced Mayor John Biggs’s Administration to back down and withdraw the Late Night Levy until proper consultation has taken place. The problem began in January this year, when a meeting of ...

“OH NO – not a second one.” That was the immediate reaction of thousands of East Enders on hearing that another little boy has died at school after suffering an allergic reaction to dairy food. It was bad enough that ...