Labour is today under the spotlight as one of their campaigners hurled verbal abuse at a young female pro-Lutfur Rahman campaigner in Chrisp Street market. The verbal abuse included swearing and using sexist language. ELN has seen a photo of the pro-Biggs ...

Rayhan Ahmed (22), from Jubilee Street in Stepney, the only son in his family, has drowned while on holiday with friends in the Alanya district of Turkey. The friends had taken a trip into the forest and were near the ...

Police continue to seek 40-year-old Peter Flowers (d.o.b 16/02/1974), last known address Stevens Road, Dagenham. Flowers is wanted by police in relation to two thefts from motor vehicles at Stansgate Road and Kemp Road Dagenham on 19th March and for ...

Police were called at 14:26hrs on Wednesday, 14th May to reports of a man attacked on the Kier Hardy Estate, Springfield, E5. The 53-year-old victim was carrying out garden maintenance in the area when a substance was thrown over his ...

Postal votes started to come into Tower Hamlets Town Hall this week as voting gets underway for the elections taking place on Thursday, 22nd May. Stringent security checks are being carried out, with every postal voting statement scanned to ensure ...

Harry Palmer looks at Lutfur Rahman’s policy record. There are many reasons to wish Lutfur Rahman success in this coming election. But there is greater national significance beyond just its effects in Tower Hamlets. It was 20 years ago this ...

Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...

Harry Palmer looks at the aftermath of the Panorama programme. The Metropolitan police have found no credible evidence of fraud in John Ware’s Panorama dossier on Lutfur Rahman. They have made it quite clear that if the audit currently being ...

From 2nd May, Hang-Up Gallery is hosting Sirens, a romantically decorative exhibition from Hackney based artist Rosie Emerson. Sirens will showcase a stunning new body of work, which experimentally combines print, photography, collage and film to portray Emerson’s mysterious goddesses ...

It was interesting to hear that the Met had decided not to investigate Mayor Lutfur Rahman and/or the Town Hall for committing fraud or other criminal offences on the basis that “no credible evidence” had been supplied to “provide reasonable ...