PUBLIC CONCERN is growing over the plans to develop the former gas works site on Bow Common Lane. These are due to be considered by the Tower Hamlets Council’s Strategic Development Committee (SDC) this week. The planning application was considered ...

THE WAR IN Yemen – and, therefore, the future of its people – is poised on a knife edge. Trump is rattling his biggest sabres as he makes the final touches to his legacy – but there is hope that ...

POLICE HAVE released CCTV footage of a man they wish to identify, locate and interview in connection with a shooting which took place in Romford at just after 7.30am on 14th October 2020. The shooting occurred in White Hart Lane, ...

TODAY, 15TH JANUARY, is the second Friday on which the doors of the East London Mosque have been closed at prayer time, as Tower Hamlets’ most famous Mosque does its bit to protect worshippers from Coronavirus. The guidelines which relate ...

LESS THAN TWO months after a woman was shot in Westgate Street, E8, a 40 year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The arrest was made at a location in Oxford. The shooting took place on ...

LEVELS OF infection with Covid remain high across London, according to Public Health England. The organisation has warned today (Friday, 15th January) that the public must observe the letter and the spirit of lockdown to try to bring the virus ...

Deluded but dangerous to the end, Donald Trump is having one last go at destabilising the Middle East – and, therefore, the world – before he leaves office. This comes at a time when the world has never had a ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public to help them find a silver VW Golf which they believe four suspects used to make their getaway from the scene of a stabbing in Walthamstow. The incident took place at around 00.45, in ...

50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling ...

THE POLICE investigation into the fatal stabbing of Abiola Akinrele have led to more suspects being charged with involvement in the murder. Akinrele was found, fatally injured, in Stondon Walk, East Ham in the afternoon of 29th December. The first ...