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 ...

A COLLISION BETWEEN an HGV and a cyclist just before Christmas killed a cyclist – an 80 year old man. The collision occurred just after 3pm on London Road, Romford. The cyclist’s next of kin have been informed, but formal ...

FOUR FATAL STABBINGS occurred in London as 2017 drew to a close and the New Year began. Metropolitan Police officers are appealing to the public for help as they launch four murder investigations to find out why four more young ...

AN 18 YEAR OLD who lost his leg in a stabbing incident has seen his attacker sent to prison for nine years and ten months. The attacker is Ce-jay Furzer, 17, of no fixed abode, who came from the Dagenham ...