A MAINS WATER pipe has burst in Bow – leaving a large area under several inches of water tonight (6th July). Water is currently covering an area between the Bow roundabout and Fairfield Road. The emergency services are in attendance. ...

TWO MEN were arrested at a property in Willoughby Drive, Dagenham at the end of last month. The arrests came after the police obtained search warrants and conducted an early morning raid on the property. The police found a shotgun, ...

WORRIED MOTHERS are asking where the Council consultation on closure of the Local Authority Day Nurseries (LADN) is – not least because the Cabinet report proposed to begin formal closure in “late July 2018”. “We’ve had a week already,” said ...

TEN PEOPLE escaped injury when fire broke out in the basement of a property in Clissold Crescent, Hackney, on 20th June. An investigation revealed the fire was started deliberately – and police are now looking for a suspect who was ...

JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...

FIREARMS, DRUGS, robbery – a list of offences has put Leon Tyrrell, 23, of Alibon Road, Dagenham, behind bars. The East London youngster was sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison at Snaresbook Crown Court on 15th June. ...

THE SEVEN men and women arrested in the major anti-drugs operation on 12th June have been charged with related offences. Six of the seven appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court the day after the arrests and were remanded in custody, to ...

POLICE LAUNCHED a number of raids last week aimed at cracking a “county line” drug supply line suspected of having ferried illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine from East London out to Essex and Suffolk. Five of the raids were on ...

A DISPUTE over a smoke alarm in a block of flats in Norbiton Road, E14, escalated – and now one of the residents involved is starting a two year jail sentence. Trouble began on 23rd July last year. A smoke ...

AS MILLIONS OF Muslims around the world celebrated Eid, violence was escalating in the strife-torn country of Yemen – and the Islamic Relief charity was stepping up its relief operations to meet the humanitarian consequences. Fighting intensified around the port ...