THE LABOUR PARTY is close to announcing who its candidate in Poplar & Limehouse will be at the next General Election – following the announcement by Jim “Dim Jim” Fitzpatrick that he will not contest the seat again. Campaigning by ...

THE TEENAGER stabbed to death outside McDonald’s in Stratford Broadway on Thursday has been named as Baptista Adjei from North Woolwich. He was just 15 years old. On Friday, another 15 year old came into the story – as he ...

THE AREA OUTSIDE McDonald’s near the entrance to the Stratford shopping mall was the scene of heartbreak this afternoon as a teenager was stabbed to death outside the fast food outlet. The emergency services were called out at approximately 3.20pm. ...

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 ...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses to a collision on the A406 which occurred a few minutes before 9pm on Friday, 13th September. The collision occurred at the junction with Walthamstow Avenue, just before the turn off for Chingford. A pedestrian ...

IT WAS IN APRIL last year that Jamel Nwokoye, 30, of Coronet Street, Hackney, began following a woman who was walking, on her own, down Pitfield Street in Hackney – shortly after 2am. As the woman drew near to an ...

A VULNERABLE PENSIONER who has learning difficulties was the victim of a con coolly carried out by Maria Miller, 65, of Simmons Lane Chingford – who is now going to jail for her cruel exploitation of her victim. Snaresbrook Crown ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public for assistance in finding a man who has been indecently exposing himself to women on and near Hackney Marshes – while threatening them with a knife. The attacks happened on Friday, 17th May – ...

SHE COMMITTED robberies and thefts on buses criss-crossing Hackney, and now Gloria Makanjuola, 28, of no fixed address has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. Ms Makanjuola was found guilty of eight counts of robbery, four ...

POLICE are appealing to the public for help in finding Suemaya Begum, 15, who is missing from her home in Camden. Suemaya was last seen at about 1.20pm on Friday, 9th August at her home in Regents Park, NW1 – ...