TEN PEOPLE appeared at Barkingside Magistrates’ Court earlier this month charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm with intent to endanger life and conspiracy to cause Grievous Bodily Harm with intent. The arrests follow an operation in which firearms warrants ...

A MAN HAS died in a fire in a first floor flat in Ellsworth Street, Bethnal Green. The death was confirmed by the London Fire Brigade. The fire was reported to the Brigade at 3.46am. Firefighters from Whitechapel and Shadwell ...

POLICE ARE investigating a strange incident which took place in Homerton High Street in the early hours of 20th May. Police were called out after shots were heard. They arrived at the scene and found an abandoned BMW motor vehicle, ...

FORTUNATELY there are no reports of deaths or injuries after a fire broke out in flats in Hadleigh Close, E1 in the early hours of this morning, Thursday, 28th May. One man was taken to hospital as a precaution. Eighty ...

The first release of tickets for London’s spectacular New Year’s Eve fireworks will go on sale at midday today(Friday 27 September). A global television audience will be watching as more than 100,000 ticket-holders gather opposite the Coca-Cola London Eye to ...

Emdad Rahman An impressive ton from Walid Ahmed was the difference as Scintilla cruised to victory against second placed Super Rangers at Oakfield Playing Fields. Faisal top scored with 74 as Rangers finished on 260 but it was Walid who ...

ARE THEY arson attacks? And are they hate crimes? These are the questions being asked as police investigate a series of small fires which have taken place across East London in recent days. •It began on Wednesday, 19th June, when ...

A MAN DIED and a second man was critically injured in a fire in Ilford last Tuesday – and police believe they may have been sleeping rough, perhaps with a small number of other people, on scrub land near the ...

THE LONDON FIRE Brigade has warned everyone to take care when holding a barbecue outdoors – or when discarding cigarettes. Last year London endured a spate of grass fires as the grass dried out and residents forgot how easily it ...

NO ONE WAS HURT after a man entered the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford during late night prayers on Thursday, 9th May and then left – apparently fired a gun. Eye witnesses reported that the man came in at around ...