TALKS ARE BEING held at ACAS today, Saturday, in an attempt to halt a 24 hour strike on London Underground (LU), due to begin on Sunday evening. The strike would involve members of the RMT union and members of the Transport ...

What’s in a name? Perhaps it was inevitable that Cllr Rabina Khan would use the slogan “Yes We Khan!” – nothing wrong with a quick pun during an election campaign. Unfortunately, Tower Hamlets’ Rabina is not the only Khan in ...

A FIRE broke out on the 17th floor of a 21 story tower block in Whitechapel High Street late this afternoon, 7th March. The building is believed to be the Relay building, which includes flats, offices and shops and stands ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have today announced the latest step they are taking in their plan to rebuild public trust in the capital’s law enforcement body – which was shattered after the murder of Sarah Everard in March this year. It ...

Tom Zagoria, a member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign, looks at the developing humanitarian crisis among the homeless. AS THE UK goes back into lockdown in the cold winter months, campaigners are warning that the Government’s refusal to fund a ...

HEIDI ALEXANDER stands up for plastic. How strange. “PS – the plastic bike crate is the way forward. Forget wicker baskets.” Heidi Alexander, former Labour MP for Lewisham East and current Deputy Mayor of London for Transport (appointed by Sadiq ...

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 ...

BARKING & DAGENHAM resident Emdad Rahman has been spreading a little happiness with the London Relay 2019. He has also had an eventful week in his quest to achieve two milestones. The Dagenham 88 runner was joined by family, friends ...

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 ...

IT WON’T BE a day on the sofa with non-stop chocolate for Leytonstone resident Kai Dickinson, 20. He’ll be at Silverstone, one of 25 bikers taking part in the British Superbikes Junior Supersport Competition. It’s taken Kai four years of ...