THE STREETS OF Dagenham are a tiny bit safer after police found a shotgun and ammunition in a property in Goresbrook Road – and four people linked with the weapon have received prison sentences. The operation which led to the ...

IT TOOK Daniel Osborne a couple of minutes to kill Makram Ali and injure several bystanders. It took nine days to try him for murder and attempted murder. It took the jury less than an hour to convict him. Osborne ...

Muhammad Rahman STEPNEY FC MADE light work of Beaumont FC to stroll home 4-0 in the third round of games in the Inner London Football League Premier Division. The old guard were on fire at Mabley Green as Tharik Hussain ...

Emdad Rahman GANTS HILL WON the Premier Division on the last day of Season 3 on goal difference in another pulsating end to a Champions League season.  Mus scored seven goals as the new champions thrashed their title rivals JIFA ...

POLICE ARE trying to get to the bottom of an armed altercation which took place in Butchers Road, Canning Town at the end of last year – much of which was caught on CCTV.  It all began at around 3.30am ...

THERE’S ONE household in Gaza whose story has been told by the charity Human Appeal – so that others can appreciate what winter conditions are like in this tiny territory. This is the story Human Appeal has told. Mahrous Khalil Zu’rob, ...

LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS thought they were going to a routine incident when they were called out, in the early morning on Monday, 29th May, to deal with a car which had caught fire in an Ilford car park. Within minutes of ...

FORTUNATELY, it’s not the US President himself who will be visiting the Royal Borough. Over 1.8 million people signed a petition against Donald Trump being invited to visit the UK – enough to force a debate in Parliament but not ...

ARE THE TORIES as green as they seem? Labour has cast doubt on the Government’s environmental credentials as it announced the result of a “coal closure” consultation. The two parties agree that coal-fired power generating plants emit too much carbon ...

CLUTTON STREET residents will soon be rid of an illegal extension in their neighbour’s back garden, as Tower Hamlets Council has won a court case against a wayward landlord. Mohammed Suruk Miah built an extension to his property in Clutton ...