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The Christmas message slot has been taken – the Queen got their first – so UK Prime Minister David Cameron has been bumped into the New Year’s message slot. Take cover. Cameron is still a relatively weak Leader. Although his ...

We wish all our readers a Happy New Year and a 2016 full of health, wealth and happiness. We’ll continue to bring you the News from East London and around the world for the next 12 months: why not like ...

“I was stupid [and] there’s no fool like an old fool,” said Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale after apologising unreservedly for his “inappropriate” behaviour” in sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 17 year old woman. Within minutes rather than ...

Would be 7/7 anniversary bombers Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed Khan have both been sentenced to life imprisonment for planning terrorist acts in the UK. The two had planned to plant a bomb to mark the tenth anniversary of the ...

Married couple Mohammed Rehman, aged 25, and Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, have been found guilty of planning to mount a terrorist explosion in London, intended to mark the tenth anniversary of the “7/7” bombings. They will be sentenced later this ...

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on David Cameron to agree to an annual “state of the nation” TV debate between the Leaders of the major parties in the UK Parliament. Cameron’s press office at no. 10 tried to duck ...

Labour Mayor Robin Wales is presiding over a gentrification strategy for Newham which has is now bearing fruit: the rise in house prices over 2015 is the largest in the UK. According to the Halifax Building Society, which constantly monitors ...

The Mediterranean island of Corsica was the scene of a Christmas Day attack on a Muslim prayer hall by a crowd chanting “Arabs out!” Glass in the front door was shattered, fixtures and fittings were broken and some copies of ...

Check the labels on any skin lightening products Santa brought you, warns London Trading Standards. Thousands of image-conscious Londoners are risking their health and even their lives by continuing to use banned skin lightening creams that can seriously damage organs ...