A man who failed to appear in court to answer charges of possession with intent to supply Class A drugs was arrested – but managed to escape from Homerton Hospital Accident & Emergency Department. He is thought to be at ...

NORA TOMKINS is just 15 years old, and she has been missing since 2am on Tuesday, 25th July. Police are concerned for her welfare. Nora is from Neville Road in Dagenham. She is described as a white female of small ...

Emdad Rahman Essex County Cricket Club, in partnership with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), hosted a community forum at Hainault & Clayhall Cricket Club to allow fans, players, coaches, volunteers, cricket aficionados and the media to air their ...

YOU WON’T be seeing Sydney Mimer, 69, around Oban Street E14 any longer. This week he was sentenced to 18 years and two months in prison for multiple offences against a young girl, committed around a decade ago but which ...

THE EAST LONDON Mosque will be holding open days on Saturday, 29th, and Sunday, 30th, July – between 11am and 5pm each day. Visitors will be able to see an exhibition hosted jointly with the Islam Awareness Project (IAP). There ...

The following arrests and charges have been made over the last few days in connection with “acid attacks” – the use of noxious liquids to disarm victims to facilitate robbery. A 15 year old boy was arrested on 14th July ...

ROMAN ROAD was the latest location of an attack on members of the public in which a liquid was used as a weapon. Police are appealing for witnesses. Police officers were alerted to the incident when they were flagged down ...

KNOCKING A man down some stairs at a hotel on Shoreditch High Street has landed 27 year old Lewis Beard with a 23 week prison sentence. Beard was also ordered to pay £7,800 in compensation and £650 in court costs. ...

METROPOLITAN police have launched a new initiative aimed at improving the safety of cyclists on the capital’s roads. It involves plain clothes police officers riding unmarked bicycles riding around London. The team will head for areas which are showing up ...

RASHAN CHARLES died during or shortly after he was restrained by police officers in a corner shop in Hackney in the early hours of Saturday morning. Police had stopped a car and it is alleged that Charles ran out of ...