ONE MAN FROM Newham and another from Bow were members of a crime gang jailed last month after a complex police investigation into the supply of firearms and ammunition in East London and Essex. The investigation took hundreds of hours ...

THE MURDER OF John Avers, 47, has been described by a police officer who worked on the investigation as “barbaric”. The evidence before the court exposed two heartless murderers – and the seedy side of drug trafficking in the heart ...

A fire broke out in a residential block in Aberfeldy Village late last night (Monday, 31st January 2022). Residents reported seeing flames leaping from the top floor of an eight-storey block of flats which local sources named as Lighterman Point. ...

POLICE ARE making an urgent appeal to the public to help find Roxana, 19, and her five day old baby. The two are missing, and the police are concerned for their welfare. The two were last seen leaving a hotel ...

A VIOLENT crime spree in Romford and Ilford came to an end earlier this month when two teens appeared at Thames Magistrates Court to face charges relating to the death of Josephine Smith in Romford. It was 28th October the ...

THE POLICE investigation began with a phone call from a man who said that he had been stabbed in Mare Street. He said that a group of men were going round stabbing people – and one of them had stolen ...

A YOUNG MAN lost his life in a collision between a car and a motorcycle in Redbridge on 17th December. Police are investigation the circumstances of the accident and have now appealed for any witnesses to come forward. The collision ...

KNIFE CRIME – and the closely related issue of drug trafficking – has been a concern throughout Tower Hamlets, but especially on the Isle of Dogs, where a number of violent incidents took place last year. The Island Network has ...

BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT Zoinul Abidin, Head of Universal Services for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, has been recognised for his sensational efforts in the field of community development. Zoinul has been recognised by Her Majesty the Queen and ...

BUS PASSENGERS should be able to travel safely, without being threatened by predatory men. This is why police are keen to find a man who exposed himself on an East London bus last month. The incident occurred between 7.30 and ...