Most Council meetings are open to the public. Going along and seeing your councillors perform is a good way to keep an eye on them and learn about what’s going on. Meetings can move or be cancelled, so check your ...

THE INVESTIGATION into a murder which happened nearly a year ago has paid off – with five people now facing charges. The murder occurred on 5th August 2025. It was just afterhey midnight when police received reports that gunshots had ...

TWO TEENAGERS – young men aged 18 and 19 – are dead after a multi-vehicle collision on the eastbound carriageway of the A13 in Newham in the evening of Thursday, 25th June. Emergency services were on the scene quickly, but ...

A MAN was sentenced to 16 year in jail at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week. He had been found guilty of an extensive list of crimes of a violent and sexual nature – mostly targeted at young men.   The ...

ONE MAN has been arrested after a series of attacks in Edinburgh last night, Friday, 19th June, left five people injured. Counter-terrorism officers are working with local police on the investigation. The attacks seem to have begun near the Broomhouse ...

IN TRAGIC circumstances, a 70 year old woman has been found dead in a residential property in Boulton Road, Dagenham. Police were called to the address by the London Ambulance Service, which had concerns about the welfare of a woman. ...

DURING MAJOR football tournaments, the number of incidents of domestic abuse increases. One study from Lancaster University found that when England wins a World Cup game, incidents of domestic abuse increase by 26% – but they increase by 38% when ...

IT WAS football, not knives last month as Year 8 and Year 9 pupils from secondary schools in Barking & Dagenham got stock in to a football tournament organised by the Community Safety Partnership. The event marked Knife Crime Awareness ...

ONE MAN has been killed and a second man has been wounded after a double stabbing in Silvertown, Newham. The dead man has been named as Mark Orabiyi, 35. A report that a man had been stabbed in Pankhurst Avenue ...

THE TRAGIC death of Henry Nowak was not the first time a young man has died while police officers don’t see what is before them. This has been overlooked by politicians who have tried to make political capital out of ...