A MAN DIED and a second man was critically injured in a fire in Ilford last Tuesday – and police believe they may have been sleeping rough, perhaps with a small number of other people, on scrub land near the ...
Read More »Search Results for: fire
Beware fire risk as summer hots up
THE LONDON FIRE Brigade has warned everyone to take care when holding a barbecue outdoors – or when discarding cigarettes. Last year London endured a spate of grass fires as the grass dried out and residents forgot how easily it ...
Read More »Gun fired at Seven Kings Mosque
NO ONE WAS HURT after a man entered the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford during late night prayers on Thursday, 9th May and then left – apparently fired a gun. Eye witnesses reported that the man came in at around ...
Read More »Firefighters tackle blaze in Loughton
“KEEP CLEAR OF LOUGHTON” is the message coming from the London and Essex fire brigades as they tackle a fire on a building site on Burton Road, near Debden station. The blaze was reported just after 11.15am and firefighters raced ...
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 »Fire in Ramsey Street, Bethnal Green
BREAKING NEWS: Firefighters and police are attending a fire in Ramsey Street, Bethnal Green. Ramsey Street is in the north-west corner of the junction between Vallance Road and Three Colts Lane. It is thought that the fire broke out shortly ...
Read More »Biggs under fire as he moves to close nurseries
“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s going ...
Read More »Small fire stops flights leaving Stansted
THICK BLACK SMOKE could be seen rising from Stansted airport for miles around on the evening of Good Friday – and the fire it came from caused severe disruption to passengers and airline schedules. On the one hand, the cause ...
Read More »Police fire shots in Hackney raid
A MAN IN HIS 20s was injured as a result of police firing shots in Mandeville Street, Hackney E5 on Monday. It was approximately 10.50pm on Monday when the police received reports that there had been a robbery on a ...
Read More »Firefighters run for Grenfell children
FROM one of the first fire crews to arrive at Grenfell Tower are to run in the London Marathon in order to raise money for children who suffered when the Kensington tower block was gutted by fire last year. The ...
Read More »
London Bangla A Force for the community…