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POLICE HAVE MADE a total of eight arrests following last Friday’s late night attack on a young Iranian Kurdish man who was waiting at a Croydon bus stop. Police had previously classified the attack as a hate crime and have ...

IN A CHILLING echo of the brutal murder of Stephen Lawrence, which took place 24 years ago next month, a young male asylum seeker has been attacked while waiting at a south-east London bus stop. The asylum seeker, a Kurdish ...

TWO FAR RIGHT groups have chosen April Fool’s Day to air their racist views in central London. The English Defence League (EDL) and Britain First (BF) have joined forces to call a demonstration allegedly in response to the recent individual ...

FIRST THE GOOD NEWS: the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced that in the last quarter of last year the UK economy grew by 0.7%. The bad news is that this growth was largely funded by domestic consumption, funded ...

NHS ENGLAND Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced that the NHS will allow the waiting time for some treatments to increase – in order to liberate vital funds for cancer treatment and Accident and Emergency (A&E) services. This is not ...

THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to parent and teacher pressure and announced proposals to abolish the controversial SATs tests which the nation’s seven year olds are forced to take each year. Parents have long protested that seven year olds are far ...

THERESA MAY has signed the letter, a man called Sir Tim Barrow – the UK’s ambassador to the EU – has taken it over to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Britain is on our way. We’re not sure ...

Warning: this report contains information about child cruelty which readers may find distressing. THIS IS POPLAR in 2017. A father has been convicted of murder. A mother has been convicted of allowing the death of a child. Both were found ...

TWO MPs ARE calling for a review of the light sentence given to a man who beat his wife with a cricket bat and forced bleach into her mouth. Manchester resident Mustafa Bashir, 34, admitted two counts of occasioning Actual ...

TOWER HAMLETS PARENTS are up in arms over John Biggs’s plans to target services for children and young people when he proposes a cuts budget to the Council on 22nd February. Parents – and junior service users – joined Council staff ...