TORY CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond has promised to stick to the widely discredit “austerity” strategy of the last government and to keep cutting back on the pay of public sector workers. Speaking to Andrew Marr on the BBC’s Sunday Politics show, ...

A MAN WALKING his dog on Wanstead Flats has been brutally assaulted by three men – and police are appealing for witnesses to come forward in the hope of being able to identify the suspects. The incident occurred on Saturday, ...

IT WAS NEARLY 1am on 7th July 2016. Two cars drove into Frimley Way, E1, and three men got out. Akikul Islam sat in his car as the three fell into an argument with a group of about ten men ...

THIRTY YEAR OLD Paul Chambers is looking at five years behind bars after trying to win an argument by slashing his victim across the face with a carpenter’s knife. The incident took place in the Broadway in Stratford. Chambers had ...

COURT ACTION taken by a group of traders has forced Mayor John Biggs’s Administration to back down and withdraw the Late Night Levy until proper consultation has taken place. The problem began in January this year, when a meeting of ...

A DISGRACEFUL attempt at street theft in the Mile End Road ended in Ismail Abbas Urrade, 29, of Holland Road, E6, committing a sexual assault. As a result, he was sentenced to 14 months in prison. His name will be ...

A MAN WHO committed serial acts of sexual abuse against a young girl between 2004 and 2011 has been sentenced to six years in prison. He was also given a Sexual Harm Prevention order and his name will be on ...

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 ...