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As soon as they heard that One Housing Group is planning to redevelop all four of its housing estates on the Isle of Dogs, local residents began asking whether the housing association was competent to undertake such a large project. ...

Can you help police identify this thug who jumped out and pushed a woman off her bicycle into the middle of the road? Fortunately, the whole incident was caught on a headcam the cyclist was wearing: it should be possibly ...

NEWS UPDATE:  Just before 2pm this afternoon, Tuesday, Detective Inspector Jason Prendergast from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, appealed for anyone with information to come forward. He said: “We are continuing our investigation and will be conducting house-to-house enquires. ...

Support builds for Abdal Ullah as Labour members warm to “a safe pair of hands” Labour Party members across East London will begin voting on Monday to choose a Labour candidate for the Greater London Assembly elections next May. And ...

Bomb update 2: The bomb was defused this afternoon, and at approximately 3pm residents were allowed to return home. To see a short video filmed by a local resident, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8mUUcnP3X0&feature=youtu.be Bomb update: residents are waking up this morning in ...

One of the talking points in this year’s General Election were previously released figures which showed that death rates were higher in hospitals at the weekend than during the week. This difference could be explained by clinical factors. Hospital populations ...

Independent researchers interviewed residents early this year – and found that residents were very happy with the services under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration. No council services saw a decline in ratings compared to last year’s survey, indicating that Mayor Lutfur ...

Armed police have this afternoon (22nd July) raided premises in Whitechapel Road. The premises appeared to be in Court Street, a small cul de sac to the north of Whitechapel Road, near the Tube station. Passers by observed nine armed ...

Cllr Rabina Khan will take the lead at tonight’s meeting of Tower Hamlets Council (22nd July) – the first scheduled Council meeting since John Biggs squeaked to victory in the mayoral election – and call on John Biggs to run ...

John Biggs, Member of the Greater London Assembly (GLA) for the City & East constituency, will be stepping down in May 2016. He has been a GLA member since 2000, and will have spent the last year of his GLA ...