OVER 50 JADE MINERS, working in Kachin state, were reported killed today as mud engulfed their living quarters. The mud slide had been triggered by a major landslide. Jade mining is a largely unregulated industry: its activities often trigger landslides, ...

TODAY – 22nd April – is the 26th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. To mark the occasion, the day has been designated “Stephen Lawrence Day”, and schools are being asked to challenge racism. Stephen was murdered in a ...

POLICE HAVE released a picture of Steven Brown, 47, who was murdered in Hackney last Thursday. The picture has come out as police have revealed that the four men arrested in central London on 20th April on suspicion of murder ...

POLICE HAVE named the man who lost his life in Hackney last Wednesday as Steven Brown, aged 47, who was from Hackney. Formal identification is awaited, with specialist police officers supporting Mr Brown’s next of kin. A post-mortem has now ...

FOUR PEOPLE have been arrested by police from the Homicide and Major Crime Command who are investigating last week’s murder in Hackney – and all have been bailed pending further investigations. A man was stabbed in Cowper Road late in ...

THE WORLD was shocked when Gyula Remes was found unresponsive in an underpass near Westminster Tube station last December and died shortly afterwards. It was even more shocking to learn that he was the second rough sleeper to die in ...

POLICE ARE looking for those who daubed racist graffiti on the entrance gates of a mosque in Preston, Lancashire – and they are treating the incident as a hate crime. It is thought that the graffiti was put up on ...

IT WAS EARLY evening – just coming up to 6pm – yesterday, 17th April, when police received reports that there had been a stabbing in Matthias Road, Hackney. With an ambulance on its way, they reached the scene first and ...

THIRTEEN PEOPLE were arrested this morning, 17th April, as police raided 18 residential addresses in East London, Reading and Feltham. Police recovered a large quantity of Class A drugs as well as imitation firearms, offensive weapons and high value vehicles. ...

SHOTS were fired in a barber’s shop in Green Street, E13 on Saturday, 6th April – and police are calling for anyone who was in the area, saw the incident or has any information about it to come forward and ...