#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public for help as they investigate the death of a man at a residential address in Cross Road, Chadwell Heath.  He has been named as Melvin Trotman, 37, from Sheffield. Police were called out to ...

ANOTHER young man has lost his life after being shot in Hackney’s notoriously gun-prone postcode E5 – and police continue to appeal to the public to come forward with information. Police received reports at around 11.30pm on 5th June that ...

A MAN HAS BEEN sent to jail for three and a half years and given a 15 year restraining order after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman and causing grievous bodily harm and three counts of assault on emergency workers. ...

IT WAS just after 2pm on 4th June when the emergency services received reports that gunshots had been heard in Wilmington Gardens, Barking. Police, the London Ambulance Service and the London Air Ambulance attended. They found two injured men. One, ...

POLICE ARE appealing for anyone who witnessed a collision in Newham in which a motorcyclist was killed to come forward. The motorcyclist has now been named as Zahid Hussain, 37, from Plaistow. Police had previously appealed for help in tracing ...

THE PARALLELS are striking. It’s no wonder that since the killing of George Floyd the Black Lives Matter movement has become impatient to end the whitewash and secure real change. It’s no wonder East London politicians are speaking out about ...

SEVENTEEN Tower Hamlets residents were arrested as the police held a day of action in the borough at the end of last month. The arrests were all on suspicion of various drug offences, with three men arrests on suspicion of ...

POLICE ARE appealing for information about an incident in Roden Street, Ilford, on 21st May in which a person was stabbed. Those charged are: Lathujan Sivean, 18, of Windsor Road, Ilford; Abde Soliman, 18, of no fixed abode. They were ...

A CAREFUL operation carried out by the Metropolitan Police Specialist Crime Command last month led to a car being stopped near Aldgate East Tube station and its passenger being arrested. The arrest came when police officers found 2.5 kilos of ...