LONDON’S FIRST BAME Mayor has had to admit equality is a long time coming lower down the City Hall ranks. The first ever ethnicity pay audit of the Greater London Authority (GLA) has concluded that the average pay of BAME ...

A MOPED collided with a stationary lorry in the Limehouse Link just before 9.30am on Friday, 23rd February in the Limehouse Link. The London Ambulance attended the collision and they called the police. Officers from the Roads and Transport Policing ...

Emdad Rahman Barking FC have dedicated their home fixture against Norwich United to raise money for Barking & Dagenham Mayor Abdul Aziz’s chosen charities: DABD UK and the British Heart Foundation. Barking Football Club was established in 1880. The team ...

OVER 250 WEAPONS were taken off the streets by three police forces working together across the capital over half term. The action, the latest phase of Operation Sceptre, was part of a national week of action across the UK. The ...

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has admitted that there is a problem with funding higher education in the UK. She has decisively announced that she is going to think about it for a year or so and wonder what to do. ...

THREE POLICE forces in London are working together this week on reducing knife crime in London – the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and the City of London Police. The week runs from Monday 12th to Friday 16th February. ...

THE STREETS OF Dagenham are a tiny bit safer after police found a shotgun and ammunition in a property in Goresbrook Road – and four people linked with the weapon have received prison sentences. The operation which led to the ...

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 ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE and Transport for London worked together in the last week of January on Operation Safeway – cracking down on dangerous driving. The joint operation saw over 1,500 people being stopped for traffic offences. The operation coincided with ...

A 73 YEAR OLD man died in a collision on the A12 on Wednesday, 24th January. The collision, which involved a number of vehicles, happened on the eastbound carriageway of the A12, between Ruckholt Road E11 and Whipps Cross. The ...