A FIRE broke out on the 17th floor of a 21 story tower block in Whitechapel High Street late this afternoon, 7th March. The building is believed to be the Relay building, which includes flats, offices and shops and stands ...

IT TOOK just over four years, but at last two East London men have been sent to prison for sexual offences against a child. The men were convicted after a four day trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court last November and ...

Muhi Mikdad London Enterprise Academy celebrated International Mother Language Day on Monday, 21st February – for the seventh year running. Year 7 pupils marked the day with a cooking class and making traditional Bangladeshi snacks. They also had an art ...

IT WAS, in some senses, an easy investigation for the Metropolitan Police. Once they gained access to their suspect’s phone, they found over 2,000 WhatsApp messages in which the suspect and his accomplice planned a murder. The story began on ...

Muhammad Talha Volunteers at the Docklands Community Initiative and Docklands Football Club organised a special reception to say thank you to members of the community who have supported Foodbank activities throughout Covid.  Eight guests were given the red carpet treatment ...

ONE MAN FROM Newham and another from Bow were members of a crime gang jailed last month after a complex police investigation into the supply of firearms and ammunition in East London and Essex. The investigation took hundreds of hours ...

Emdad Rahman A DEBUT BOOK by a former Whitechapel resident, which explores Europe’s living Ottoman legacy, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award – on the centenary of the Empire’s collapse.  Minarets in ...

Muhi Mikdad WHAT IS A good education? Many people might answer this question by saying going to school is about academic excellence – getting good marks in your exams and leaving school with good academic qualifications. However, others would be ...

Emdad Rahman THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE teamed up with Islamic Relief UK last month to distribute 500 winter food packs to vulnerable people, struggling financially due to the pandemic. Many people have been on short time or have lost their ...

THE MURDER OF John Avers, 47, has been described by a police officer who worked on the investigation as “barbaric”. The evidence before the court exposed two heartless murderers – and the seedy side of drug trafficking in the heart ...