A SET of five motions coming to next Wednesday’s Council meeting as the Independent Group of councillors puts forward a strategy to make the Borough a safer place. When he was Deputy Mayor, Cllr Ohid had a special brief for ...

LAST FEBRUARY, Wapping resident Anthony Duggan, 47, rode his motorcycle up West India Dock Road. It was to be his last journey. Just ahead of him was a gritting lorry, bring driven by Peter Wright, 45, of Stanford-Le-Hope. There is ...

RAJA ALI, 33, of Elm Park, was viciously attacked on 25th September last year. He was stabbed 13 times and attacked with a number of weapons – including a hammer, metal poles, baseball bats and at least one knife. He ...

A MAN WHO subjected two Muslim women to an Islamophobic attack is now in jail – and will face ongoing supervision on his release. The offence occurred when Alex Chivers, 36, of Bryanstone Road, Waltham Cross was walking down Hertford ...

SANCHEZ EDWARDS has been found. He was wanted in connection with a police investigation into an attack on a 92 year old woman in Hackney, in which a man tried to take her handbag. The brave women fought back. As ...

“OH NO – not a second one.” That was the immediate reaction of thousands of East Enders on hearing that another little boy has died at school after suffering an allergic reaction to dairy food. It was bad enough that ...

A 92 YEAR OLD woman was the victim of a vicious mugger in Hackney on 27th June. The woman had gone out to post a letter and then visit the Lawson Medical Centre on Nuttall Street. She went past a ...

STORY UPDATE: John Tomlin, 24, of Colman Road, E16, has been found and arrested. He was charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent in connection with the incident in Tollgate Road which is described in our ...

JUST TWO DAYS after a man died from stab wounds sustained on White Horse Road late last month, two people were arrested – and a man has now been charged with murder. The Metropolitan Police Homicide and Major Crime Command ...

A LACK OF leadership and consistent failures on governance, service delivery and keeping residents safe – that’s the criticism which the Tower Hamlets Independent Group of Councillors is throwing at Labour’s Mayor, John Biggs. The Indes cite an increase in ...