Two charities – the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and Childline – are to receive a cash boost after financial services company KPMG revealed its staff will raise £1 million over the next two years. ...
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Ilford man guilty of murdering work colleague
A MAN HAS BEEN found guilty of attacking and killing a work colleague – and perverting the course of justice. The murder victim was Seyed Khan, 49. The murder took place in Ilford in January. Imran Muhammad, 31, was convicted ...
Read More »Firearms back in Newham’s Wellington Road
A BLACK FORD FOCUS motor vehicle with several occupants drove down Waterloo Road, Newham, and into Wellington Road on 30th May. The vehicle came to a halt in the middle of the road – and one of the passengers waved ...
Read More »Man charged with Ilford murder of Seyed Khan
A MAN HAS BEEN charged with the murder of Seyed Khan, whose body was found in a cemetery in Ilford on 1st February. Mr Khan was formally identified today, 5th February. Mr Khan lived in Thamesmead – but worked in ...
Read More »Teen stabbed to death in Barking
A MURDER HUNT is underway in Barking, after a 19 year old male was stabbed in Abbey Road, Barking. Police and the Ambulance Service were called just after 10pm on Saturday, 3rd February. Despite receiving emergency treatment, the teenager could ...
Read More »Police to return to Mbye murder scene one week on
ONE WEEK AFTER Yaya Mbye, 26, was found fatally wounded on the George Downing Estate off Cazenove Road in Stoke Newington, police returned to the scene to try to jog local memories and collect more information about what happened that ...
Read More »Boris sends out a search party
In the old days, when you had a festival or a fun-day, your Council told you when and where it was and what was going on and you went their and did it. Now, under Boris Johnson’s free-market London, you ...
Read More »Who were the war veterans honoured in Tower Hamlets?
Two Tower Hamlets war veterans who were awarded the Victoria Cross have been honoured with specially commissioned paving stones as part of the Government’s World War One centenary campaign. The stones for Corporal Issy Smith (in Ropewalk Gardens) and Lieutenant ...
Read More »The (not so) Secret Garden
Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and volunteers are ready to bring to life an inspirational greening project on a wall in the Leopold Estate! Building work begins on Thursday, 26th March – and the Friends are appealing for helpers to ...
Read More »Mayor marks Remembrance Day
The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, observed the 67th Anniversary Remembrance Day on 11th November
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