THE METROPOLITAN POLICE are running a week of activity to raise awareness of the law against using a mobile phone while driving – combined with enforcement of that law. The Roads and Transport Policing Command (RTPC) is leading the work ...

IT WAS THE early hours of Sunday, 21st January – round about ten to five in the morning – when the emergency services were called out to the A12, near the Leytonstone junction. They found that a black Ford Focus, ...

ONE YOUNG MAN is lucky to be alive today after surviving a shooting in Newham on Tuesday this week. Police officers from the Metropolitan Police Trident and Area Crime Command have launched an investigation and are appealing for witnesses to ...

CONCERNS ARE growing for the welfare of Abdi Ali, 18, from Enfield. His family last saw him on 11th December 2017, after a family wedding. He is described as a black teenager, and of slim build. Abdi has been known ...

IF YOU ARE 15 years old and you go to a fast food shop with your friends, you expect to have a good time. You don’t expect to have your arm broken and you certainly don’t want to hear a ...

LOCAL FIREFIGHTERS thought they were going to a routine incident when they were called out, in the early morning on Monday, 29th May, to deal with a car which had caught fire in an Ilford car park. Within minutes of ...

TOWER HAMLETS’ Trading Standards Officers’ faces lit up as they surveyed their latest haul of illicit tobacco – seized from retailers across the borough after a six week long crackdown. Officers went around the borough and made test purchases from ...

EAST HAM RESIDENT Ahmet Dobran, 82, went out on the evening of Sunday, 27th August last year – little realising that his life was about to change for ever. He was brutally attacked and never really recovered. Now his life ...

ENGLAND CRICKET STAR Ben Stokes bas been charged with affray and will appear at Bristol Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge. Also charged in relation to the same incident are Ryan Ali, 28, and Ryan Hale, 26. The charges arise ...

THE A406 FLYOVER above Redbridge Roundabout was the scene of a horror crash on Tuesday night which left two men each having a leg amputated – and the driver of the car which started it all just ran away. The ...