TOWER HAMLETS Council has launched its new Suicide Prevention Strategy 2018-21. The Strategy was launched on 1st February – national Time To Talk day, when people are encouraged to talk about mental health. The suicide rate in Tower Hamlets is ...

JOHN BIGGS had a busy evening last week, on the fourth Thursday of the month. By the time he reached Newham to attend a charity dinner in aid of combating acid attacks, he had been to three other meetings already ...

AT MIDDAY ON 1st February the body of a man was found in an Ilford cemetery. He was found by police who were looking for Seyed Khan, 49. Mr Khan had not been seen since he left his home in ...

REKER AHMED left Iraq because it was dangerous – and came to leafy Croydon for safety. In Croydon, he was violently attacked by a crowd of racists while he was waiting at a bus stop. They nearly killed him. Police ...

A POLICE CONSTABLE attached to the East Area Command has been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police after a two-day misconduct hearing – which she did not attend. The Chair of the hearing found that one of charge of gross misconduct ...

POLICE ARE DETERMINED to solve the murder of Daniel Frederick. This week they have seen one suspect charged, appear in court – and be held in custody. Now, as they build their case, they are trying to identify two further ...

TWO YOUNG MEN were convicted last October of carrying out robberies in Hackney – and using corrosive substances in the process. They were each sentenced, last December, to 14 years in prison. Sadik Kamara and Joshua Jordan were not alone ...

ANOTHER YOUNG man has lost his life in Hackney – stabbed to death in the streets. It began when the emergency services were called just after 11.30pm on Sunday, 28th January. An hour later, another stab victim was dead. The ...

POLICE ARE trying to get to the bottom of an armed altercation which took place in Butchers Road, Canning Town at the end of last year – much of which was caught on CCTV.  It all began at around 3.30am ...

A CRUEL COURIER CON has seen an elderly man lose over £2,500. The con began on 17th November last year when a man in his 80s, who lives in Bermondsey, received a phone call from someone claiming to be Hammersmith ...