Human Appeal has just revealed that the hospital it operates in Aleppo has narrowly escaped disaster last Sunday. As an air strike took place, a bomb dropped just yards away from the hospital’s side entrance. It left a crater two ...

On the night of 3rd August, a woman sadly lost her life and five other people were injured as a man with mental health problems launched a random knife attach in Russell Square. At lunchtime on 4th August, Jeremy Corbyn ...

Reports coming out of Turkey far into the night indicate only that the picture is still very confused. Many of the reports are tweets from eyewitnesses: although these give an immediate picture of episodes happening on the ground, it is hard ...

Emdad Rahman With a glorious hot summer’s evening and a sell out crowd, all that remained was a cracking cricket game to be played out. The boisterous crowd was not disappointed as Surrey beat Somerset by 15 runs at the ...

Muhammad Ismael Rahman In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Limehouse Festival, the Limehouse Community Forum (LCF) teamed up with Franklyn James, Limehouse Marina Elite and Online Inventories to hold the inaugural LIMEfest Almost 5k Fun Run – a ...

“It is incredibly fortunate that the victim lived. The investigation has shown that he [Stanislavs Leonovs] was willing to take money and attempt to kill someone – the sentence reflects just how serious a crime this was.” These were the ...

West Yorkshire police have announced that Thomas Mair, aged 52 and of Birstall, has been charged with the murder of Jo Cox MP.  He has also been charged with other offences, including grievous bodily harm, possession of a firearm with ...

Moses Fadairo, 25, of Hackney was killed last September. At the Old Bailey this week, Christopher Erunse, 28, of Greenwich – who had been his “friend” – was sentenced to serve 18 years in prison for killing him. The story ...

Detective Inspector Glenn Butler said: “I need to hear from anyone who saw anything suspicious in the Plaistow area on Thursday night, or from anyone who has information about the shooting. Shootings on the streets of London are rare, and the ...

Emdad Rahman A crowdfunding campaign has begun for Weavers Kids Cafe, an enterprising community project in the north west of the borough. The Café is trying to get as many different people as possible to pledge what they can before ...