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 ...
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Hackney vigil for Rashan Charles
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 ...
Read More »Cllr Miah asks: why is Council silent on fining child?
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 ...
Read More »Hackney man dies in police chase
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 ...
Read More »Government clobbers pensioners
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 ...
Read More »Mosque fire: hate crime or terrorism?
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 ...
Read More »Court action forces Biggs to back down
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 ...
Read More »Second schoolboy killed by allergy
“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 ...
Read More »Community event remembers 7/7
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 ...
Read More »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 ...
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