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There’s a nasty little scam going round at the moment. Con artists are gaining access to flats and advertising them for rent. When a prospective tenant comes round to view the flat, the con artist poses as a landlord, takes ...

On Saturday evening, a man rushed into Leytonstone Tube Station and began attacking a passenger. He later produced a knife and used it to continue the attack. He succeeded in attacking three passengers, one of whom was left in a ...

Parliament has today voted to authorise the Tory Government to bomb Syria. The majority was, in the end, huge: the substantive motion authorising action was passed by 397 votes to 223 – but let’s get this in proportion. First, the ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the House of Commons will vote tomorrow, Wednesday 2nd December, on whether to “bomb Syria”. The Stop the War Coalition has called an emergency protest this evening: assemble from 6pm in Parliament Square ...

Silence is complicity: so today it is time for you to take a few minutes to help save lives and make the world a safer place. In the coming week, the Government seems certain to ask the House of Commons ...

Len Aldis, well known local campaigner for peace and pensioners, was found at home on Friday, 27th November, having passed away. Len’s friends had individually been worried that he had not answered or responded to phone calls recently. When they ...

Last Sunday’s Gala Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, held by the Federation of Bangaldeshi Caterers (FoBC) to dish out the Asian Curry Awards, should perhaps have been retitled “Carry on curry”. A very different event from some ...

Council confirms move to Whitechapel After a six month delay, during which John Biggs tried – and failed – to find fault with Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to move the Tower Hamlets Civic Centre to Whitechapel, the plan’s back on. ...

Mystery was surrounding the discovery of 150 Islamic books today… in the Limehouse Cut, a canal which runs through Tower Hamlets. The Metropolitan Police attended and rescued the books from the water – not so much an exercise in rescuing ...

Government turns down Biggs’s request to withdraw Commissioners Biggs offers to cut East End Life if Commissioners will go John Biggs has failed in his attempt to get government Commissioners out of Tower Hamlets so that he can run the ...