WE WONDERED what US President Donald Trump meant when he said a peace agreement with Iran was near. It turns out that what he meant was that the USA was going to return to military action. •Events over the last ...

ONE OF THE biggest headaches for the Fire Brigade – and all the other organisations that work on community safety – is fires caused by lithium batteries being charged. Now two organisations – the Fire Brigade and Uber Eats have ...

IT’S NOT going so well for US President Donald Trump. His military attack on Iran did not lead to Iran capitulating, and he doesn’t know what to do about it. And as mid-term elections loom, his popularity is taking a ...

THE MAYOR and Deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets have welcomed a report issued by Ofsted Inspectors on how the Council and its partners investigate child sexual abuse within families. Ofsted had previously inspected Children’s Services as a whole, and judged ...

THREE PEOPLE have now been arrested by Counter Terrorism police investigating the small fire in Nelson Street, Whitechapel, E1 on 5th May. The fire was lit outside a building which used to be a synagogue and is in the process ...

OVER THE last five years, 103 people have died in water-related circumstances. Now the London Fire Brigade is urging everyone to become water-aware as we enter the peak period for water-related incidents. London firefighters have attended 1,500 water-related incidents over ...

HE THOUGHT he was buying a gun from fellow right-wing extremists. In fact, he was buying a gun from two undercover detectives – who were part of a joint investigation by London Counter Terrorism Police (CTP) and MI5. The two ...

THE END of Birmingham’s long-running bin strike may be in sight – leaving the question: why on earth did the Labour Council take so long to settle the dispute? The problems began in September 2023 when Birmingham City Council effectively ...

IT’S ESCALATION. That is how US President Donald Trump is going to deal with the collapse of peace talks with Iran. We say “peace talks” – but as Trump gave them a single day, they were more a case of ...

THE USA has left Islamabad after 21 hours of talks with Iran – moaning that Iran had not agreed to its “final and best offer”. Iran has stated that the USA came in with “excessive demands”. Iran has also reported ...