A nasty new scam has come to light in Bow. A resident answered a knock at the door and found two men who claimed that they were bailiffs. They demanded £100 from her, stating that she owed the money because ...

The inquest into the death of Alexia Walenkaki began today, 11th April – and was immediately adjourned until 16th January 2017. The last minute delay came because police needed more time to obtain expert evidence – and to follow up ...

With the number of sex crimes on London Transport having risen by over a third last year, it’s quite the wrong time to close down the specialist sexual offences team which deals with these matters. Fortunately, British Transport Police have ...

Hidden away among the news on Budget day was a Metropolitan Police announcement: that there will be no criminal prosecutions arsing out of the Judgement in the Election Court issued in April 2015. Though this was always the most likely ...

Reports are coming in of an explosion taking place in the German capital, Berlin. Early reports from police say that the car was driving along a street in the wealthy Charlottenburg district of Berlin when it exploded. The force of ...

Questions were being asked on Sunday as John “two jobs” Biggs displayed a very relaxed attitude to the second Britain First demonstration outside the East London Mosque in a fortnight. It was around 1.15pm on Sunday that just over a ...

The death of Nancy Reagan, widow of the late US President Ronal Reagan, was announced at the weekend. She was widely heralded in the press as a woman who had sacrificed her own career in order to support her husband ...

At one minute past 7pm on Friday, 9th February 1996 a massive boom swirled round the Isle of Dogs – a noise few residents had heard before. Residents felt their blocks sway. Looking out the window, residents saw a swirl ...

Taysir Mahmud, Editor of the Weekly Desh, which is published in London, asks if is a free and fair election is possible in Bangladesh without a caretaker government. Last April I went to Bangladesh as my father suddenly passed away. I ...

The Government has cut millions from Tower Hamlets’ income, but the Council has fortunately won a small grant which will restore a tiny drop of the missing funding. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set aside £3.5 million ...