THERE WAS TRAGEDY in Barking Road, Newham, at 2pm this afternoon as a woman, 67, was knocked over by a lorry. The emergency services attended and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman’s next of kin have been ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have confirmed that they will continue to prioritise tackling knife crime over the next year. Deputy Commissioner Sir Craig Mackey renewed this pledge after four young men were stabbed to death over the New Year. The Deputy ...

A WOMAN HAS died after being stabbed in Ilford – and a man from Newham has been arrested in connection with the incident. The London Ambulance Service (LAS) received reports just after 7pm on Wednesday, 3rd January that a woman ...

TWO 16 YEAR OLDS were hospitalised with gunshot wounds on 29th December after a gunman opened fire on a fast food restaurant in Plaistow. The incident occurred in Terrace Road, just after 8.30pm. The emergency services were called, with both ...

INDEPENDENT GROUP Councillor Ohid Ahmed has called on Tower Hamlets Council to create a “Tower Hamlets Acid Register”, to be used on a voluntary basis by local retailers who sell corrosive substances. Cllr Ahmed says that a voluntary register would ...

THREE YOUNG MEN who had been conning vulnerable elderly people appeared at Blackfriars Crow Court just before Christmas – where they were convicted of various offences relating to fraud. All three received prison sentences. The three included Shaheedul Abedin, 20, ...

WRITING IN The Independent, Cllr Rabina Khan has outlined the need for a bottom-up, community led strategy against knife crime. Her remarks came just after a 16 year old boy who killed local student Syed Jamanoor Islam, 20, in Mile End ...

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS returning to work in Canary Wharf after the Christmas and New Year break discovered the body of a man. It is thought the body had been there for several days. The body was found shortly after 8.30am in ...

BABY HARRY was found in a park in Plaistow back in September. He was immediately taken to hospital, where staff named him Harry – and appealed for his mother to come forward. Harry is now in local authority care – ...

A CONVICTION FOR common assault has led to PC Ajay Singh, who had been working with the East Area Command Unit, being dismissed from the Metropolitan Police at a special case hearing just before Christmas. The conviction arose after PC ...