Shampan Restaurant Limited, the company which runs the Shampan restaurant on Brick Lane, has been fined £3,757.50 – and one of its directors, Rukeya Haque, has been fined £1,220. The penalties arise out of a charge of “exposing and selling ...

Muiddin Mire has been found guilty of attempted murder following an incident which took place at the end of last year. Mire staged a frenzied attack in the Tube station’s ticket hall, during which two passengers were injured and a ...

Readers of a certain age will know that the being with the greatest need ever of making a phone call was ET, the little alien in the eponymous film of the early 1980s. Only by making telephonic connection could he ...

Yet another case of police behaviour which has always aroused public suspicion may be about to come under scrutiny. Coroner Louise Hunt has ruled that inquests into the deaths of 21 people killed in what have come to be known ...

Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic accident which took place in the early hours of Sunday, 29th May on Barking Road, London E6. A collision took place between a car and a motorcycle at approximately 00.15am. ...

Cllr Shiria Khatun, one of Labour’s Deputy Mayors, has this week warned that John Bigg’s Labour Administration is keeping a close eye on Brick Lane and will make sure all outlets conform to the law. She said: “The hearing decision ...

After just over a quarter of a century, the families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster heard a jury say that the deaths were unlawful killings – that the football supporters’ behaviour did not contribute to their deaths, but ...

We are often told that Muslims are a potential danger to the UK, people who may cause death and destruction. Now a gang of five white men, all apparently from a Christian country, have been convicted of trying to smuggle a ...

Activists from environmental pressure group Greenpeace are scaling key monuments across London to place over-sized surgical masks on them to protect them from pollution in the air. Police, ambulance and fire crews attended the various scenes and cordoned off areas ...

An East London arts group and the London College of Fashion have teamed up to offer young people an opportunity to learn about fashion.  The project, “Design+Make”, designed by Art Against Knives, is for young people aged 18-24 who are ...