A WHITE BMW was stolen in Priory Street, Bow, earlier this month – in a strange theft which involved the use of threatening weapons including a knife and a gun. A man was parking his car, a white BMW 3 ...
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Was 2020 “the year of the bike”?
WHILE LOCKDOWN drove many East Londoners indoors for much of the last year, the slow and staggered path to a new life has introduced some of us to a new, two-wheeled friend. What is it about Conservative governments? In the ...
Read More »Boat party man escapes with fine after Covid breach
NOISY PARTIES can be annoying for neighbours who are kept awake in the early hours of the morning. If they take place on a boat, they will annoy even more residents, as the boat chugs down the canal. The boat ...
Read More »UK democracy? Face up to the flaws
IF UK DEMOCRACY is a shining example for the rest of the world to follow, then someone needs to help the rest of the world. Two institutions crucial to the functioning of a democratic society have been found wanting today: ...
Read More »Capital Kids Cricket and the world’s most expensive tea event!
Emdad Rahman FORMER England Cricket Captain Mike Gatting – who has taken tea at matches all over the world – can now add an “incredible, extraordinary, and quite spectacular” experience to his list of memories. At £36,000 a pot, the ...
Read More »G7 agrees global corporate tax regime: are they serious?
IT’S A HISTORIC deal – apparently. The Finance Ministers of the G7, meeting in London, have agreed a new system for taxing multinational companies. They are hoping this new system will provide a cash windfall for governments which have borrowed ...
Read More »Coalition targets Palestine for protests at G7 summit
SEVERAL GROUPS have joined together to organise protests at and about the G7 summit which is to be held in Cornwall next weekend. One of the main issues protestors wish to raise is the G7 countries’ support for the Israeli ...
Read More »Is Poplar Labour Secretary guilty of “dishonest behaviour”?
QUESTIONS ARE being asked as members of the Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party (CLP) are becoming aware of a document which seems to show that their Secretary has “brought her profession into disrepute by reason of her dishonest behaviour” ...
Read More »Bow stalker sent to jail
A MAN WHO persistently stalked and preyed on a woman in East London has been sent to jail for two and a half years. He has been named as Charles Thomas Cox, 28, of Medway Road, E3. Cox developed an ...
Read More »June 4th – “we shall never forget”
IT IS 32 years since the world witnessed the might of the Chinese regime crush the democracy demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. And a solidarity movement across the globe vowed, “June 4th – we shall never forget”. Today a ...
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