OFFICIAL FIGURES for England and Wales show that knife crime in England and Wales for 2019 showed a 7% increase on 2018 – creating a record high of 45,627 offences. The figures were released today by the Office of National ...

NEW LABOUR LEADER Keir Starmer has baffled Labour Party members and the wider public by coming up with a new demand for government action on the Corona pandemic. What is he calling for – in what is pretty much his ...

WHILE THE PUBLIC tries to cope with a three month lockdown in the UK, spare a thought for the people of Gaza – a state that’s been in lockdown for 15 years, thanks to a blockade imposed by the Israeli ...

FOUR residents of Tower Hamlets have been diagnosed as having the Corona virus, also known as Covid-19. At the start of the week, only one case had been reported: the 300% increase was revealed today, Tuesday, 10th March. One infected ...

A POLICE OFFICER is in hospital in a serious but stable condition after being subjected to a violent attack by a man with a machete in Leyton. The incident occurred just after midnight this morning, Thursday, 8th August. Uniformed police ...

THE AUGUST issue of The Voice – online magazine of the East London Garden Society (ELGS) is out, bringing the area’s gardeners the usual mix of know-how and debate. The major news is a move to establish a five mile ...

A MAN DIED and a second man was critically injured in a fire in Ilford last Tuesday – and police believe they may have been sleeping rough, perhaps with a small number of other people, on scrub land near the ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 2 We visited Arsal today. It is a Red conflict zone, but we had received special permission to enter the region and camps to meet the residents. After an information briefing from Badih, we travelled along ...

TWO JOURNALISTS – Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29 – who worked for Reuters in Myanmar have today been unexpectedly freed from prison. It is thought that the international campaign in their defence forced their release. The articles ...

OVER 50 JADE MINERS, working in Kachin state, were reported killed today as mud engulfed their living quarters. The mud slide had been triggered by a major landslide. Jade mining is a largely unregulated industry: its activities often trigger landslides, ...