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 14 YEAR OLD TEEN has been arrested and charged with the murder of Lord Promise Nkenda (known as Promise). The latest arrest came on 1st March, with the teen being charged the same day. He was due to appear ...

WHEN REPORTS came in to the police that a man had been stabbed in the Ilford Lane/Wingate Road area just before 11pm on Thursday, 1st March they probably feared the worst. Fortunately, the victim, who is aged 28, was lucky ...

THE WHOLE community was shaken when a Leicester shop, and the flat above it, were devastated by a massive explosion and then engulfed in a massive ball of flames last Sunday, 25th February. The blaze and its aftermath totally destroyed ...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses to help them investigate a collision in Canning Town in which a motorcyclist was killed. The incident took place just after 9pm on Tuesday, 27th February in Silvertown Way, E16. It seems that a BMW ...

LOOK DOWN ANY High Street and you’ll see enough places to eat or take food away that you will be asking yourself, “does nobody cook any more?” All that may be set to change, as restaurants start to admit they ...

Emdad Rahman THE LEFTLEY SPORTS CLUB has announced a launch date to showcase the activities of the organisation to the community in Barking & Dagenham. Leftley Sports Club is run exclusively by volunteers and was formed as a result of ...

AN EAST LONDON man has been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of two counts of encouraging terrorism and one count of supporting a proscribed organisation. The guilty man is Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, of East ...

AN EAST LONDON branch of a family support charity has received a £2,000 donation from Amazon in London – which the charity will put towards funding further training for volunteers. Staff and volunteers at Home-Start in East London received the ...

POLICE ARE looking for one last suspect as they investigate the murder of Romanian national Sandel Serbu in Ilford last November. Serbu was found on High Road, at the junction with Connaught Road – badly injured, apparently after a fight. ...