POLICE ARE ASKING for witnesses to a fatal collision in West Ham to come forward. It happened on Boxing Day, and led to the death of Julio Silva, who was 89 years old. Mr Silva was walking across Upton Lane, ...

A LEADING Indian cricketer has been accused of “mental torture” by his wife. Hasin Jahan, 26, a former model and cheerleader who married Mohammed Shami five years ago, said that the fast bowler, 27, was guilty of adultery, domestic violence ...

THE POLICE  are appealing for witnesses to help them solve an acid attack case in East Ham which saw a young man suffer life-changing injuries. The victim, 24, was walking along Burges Road, E6 at around 4pm on Monday, 12th ...

THE BBC HAS ALLEGED that the man who has been taken ill in the Salisbury contamination incident is Sergei Skripal, 66. The Russian national was convicted, in Russia, of spying for the UK. Skripal, then a colonel in Russian military intelligence, ...

NEWHAM POLICE are concerned about the welfare of 13 year old Zahra Codsi, who has been missing since Monday, 26th February. She was last seen at around 3.40pm in East Ham. Zahra is described as 5ft 7ins tall, of slim ...

A TOWER HAMLETS police constable has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police – three and a half months since he was found guilty of harassment. PC Christopher Gilham was based at Tower Hamlets. He was convicted of harassment on 10th ...

EVER SINCE large numbers of Rohingya people started fleeing to Bangladesh to escape persecution by the Myanmar military forces, international attention has focussed on the refugee camps around Cox’s Bazar. International attention is all very well: what the Rohingya refugees, ...

A GANG OF FOUR East Londoners who wanted to inspire an “army of children” to carry out a terror attack in the UK were convicted of a range of terror-related offences at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2nd March. The ...

LONDON’S FIRST BAME Mayor has had to admit equality is a long time coming lower down the City Hall ranks. The first ever ethnicity pay audit of the Greater London Authority (GLA) has concluded that the average pay of BAME ...

WHEN REPORTS came in to the police that a man had been stabbed in the Ilford Lane/Wingate Road area just before 11pm on Thursday, 1st March they probably feared the worst. Fortunately, the victim, who is aged 28, was lucky ...