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 ...

THE MURDER of a teenager in Hackney Wick last week saw Hackney’s Green Mayor, Zoë Garbett, and Deputy Mayor Cllr Dylan Law express their condolences to the family and commitment to community safety. The statement reads: “We are extremely shocked and ...

AGED ONLY 16, he is too young to be named – but old enough to be charged with murder – and with possession of a bladed article. The charge arises from the murder of a young man on the street ...