Emdad Rahman A SMALL commemoration event at Aldgate station involving members of the general community remembered the innocent lives lost on 7/7, when 52 people were tragically taken. Today is twelve years since London was temporarily bought to a standstill ...
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Tragic teenager dies in Mile End fire
AS DAWN BROKE this morning a fire broke out in a third/fourth floor maisonette in St Paul’s Way. Within hours, a 17 year old girl had died. The Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service received an emergency call around 6am ...
Read More »Fire in Bow
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, ...
Read More »Hillsborough cops to be charged
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 ...
Read More »Cllr Miah wants review after Westferry Rd crash
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 ...
Read More »Island fire: Cllr Miah demands action
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 ...
Read More »Osborne charged – terrorism and murder
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 ...
Read More »PM: “more combustible cladding found”
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 ...
Read More »Charles pays respects at Finsbury Park
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 – ...
Read More »K&C Chief Exec resigns over Grenfell Tower
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 ...
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