A TEENAGER is being treated in an East London hospital after being shot at around 11.40pm on Friday night, 28th June, in Loxford Lane, Ilford. Minutes after police were called out to the shooting, they received reports that shots had ...

NEWHAM POLICE are appealing to the public to help them find Zilvanas Kareiva, who has gone missing from the Newham Centre for Mental Health. A warning comes with the appeal: Kareiva could be dangerous. Anyone who sees him is warned ...

A COLLISION between a motor vehicle and a female pedestrian led to the death of the pedestrian, a 22 year old woman. Her next of kin are aware of the tragedy. The collision occurred just before 9pm on Wednesday, 19th ...

ARE THEY arson attacks? And are they hate crimes? These are the questions being asked as police investigate a series of small fires which have taken place across East London in recent days. •It began on Wednesday, 19th June, when ...

TOWER HAMLETS police are feeling the pinch of Tory Government cuts – and Limehouse Police Station is now closed to the public, making it much harder to report non-emergency crime. The Limehouse Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) is trying to keep ...

A GROUP OF MEN disturbed the peace in Stepney… by launching an attack on a vehicle. The men were armed with machetes and axes. Fortunately police officers from the Metropolitan Police Response Team B turned out quickly. The driver of ...

A MAN AND A WOMAN have been remanded in custody – charged in connection with with the killing of Giedrius Juskauskas in Stratford last Monday, 17th June. They will next appear at the Old Bailey on 27th June. Juskauskas was ...

A MAN DIED and a second man was critically injured in a fire in Ilford last Tuesday – and police believe they may have been sleeping rough, perhaps with a small number of other people, on scrub land near the ...

A BRAVE MEMBER of staff stopped an early morning attempted robbery at a newsagent in Roman Road, Tower Hamlets, E2 in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 18th June. A man came into the newsagent at about 6am. He produced ...

HACKNEY POLICE have offered a reward of up to £20,000 for information which leads to the conviction of the killer of Alex Vanderpuye, 24, in Hackney back in December 2017. Alex lived in Hackney – and police found him in ...