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 ...

SUPPORTING the “Black Lives Matter” movement is not just a case of saying you support it, or going on a march to show you do, or signing a petition to say that police officers should stop killing black people in ...

A MAN WAS arrested by officers from the Central Specialist Crime Unit, who were executing a warrant at an address in Newham in the early hours of 20th May. Police have now confirmed that the man is Vasile Alexandru, 30, ...

POLICE ARE investigating a strange incident which took place in Homerton High Street in the early hours of 20th May. Police were called out after shots were heard. They arrived at the scene and found an abandoned BMW motor vehicle, ...