NEW RESOURCES to help parents work out what to do if their child is ill have been launched in Tower Hamlets. Is this a way to reassure worried parents or part of a larger move to restrict access to NHS ...

THE RESULTS OF THE public consultation on privatising the Council’s three remaining day nurseries begin to emerge, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has promised to “see if [the proposals] can be improved”. Campaigners had been calling for the privatisation ...

REFUGEES who are surviving precariously in refugee areas in Bangladesh are facing further difficulties with the coming of the monsoon season – and many may have to flee yet again. Many of the latest refugees are surviving in makeshift camps ...

HUNDREDS OF members of the community visited the East London Mosque – London’s largest Mosque – and London Muslim Centre today, Sunday, 19th February. They came as part of the Visit My Mosque Day, a national initiative of the Muslim ...

WHEN LABOUR PARTY supporters elected Jeremy Corbyn as their Leader, many were looking forward to an era of fairer funding – with money being allocated according to need. They are going to have to wait a while in London. Although ...

AN EAST LONDON MAN has been jailed for two years for encouraging terrorism. Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, used over 20 Twitter and Instagram handles to pump out images  and messages promoting Daesh over several months. Metropolitan Police detectives investigated the ...

IT WAS THE TWO packages sent to their address in Lansbury Avenue, Romford, that led to their downfall. The packages, batches of herbal cannabis, sent in December 2015 and April 2016, were intercepted by the National Crime Agency, based at ...

SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, has not been automatically selected to be Labour’s mayoral candidate in the election on 3rd May. The Party will now hold an open selection contest to choose their candidate. It is tempting to assume ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE are taking a new model of organisation – piloted in East London – and rolling it out across the capital. No more will each borough have its own police force, as new Basic Command Units (BCUs) will ...

THREE POLICE forces in London are working together this week on reducing knife crime in London – the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and the City of London Police. The week runs from Monday 12th to Friday 16th February. ...