INDEPENDENT COUNCILLOR Mahbub Alam saw the seasonal break as a chance to take a few days rest and recuperation from his busy schedule. He and eleven family members booked up a holiday cottage in the village of Rhayader, Powys, in ...

THE LABOUR PARTY has launched a public consultation over its “industrial strategy” – in other words, its policy on how to run the economy, which will form the basis of its next manifesto and campaigning up to the 2020 General ...

THE RICH MIX team are wishing their supporters a happy new year. The cultural centre is remembered in Tower Hamlets for winning generous public subsidy and in particular for the controversial £850,00 loan it received from the Council some years ...

MIDWIFE LAURA MacNeil, 24, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 5th January. She had previously pleaded guilty to 27 counts of theft of morphine, a Class A drug, at Barkingside ...

JAMES ROBERTS has been jailed for life for the murder of Aidan O’Mahony in Hornchurch a year ago. Roberts, 32, of Ambleside Avenue, Hornchurch, was convicted just before Christmas. On 6th January he was back in the Old Bailey, where ...

SEAN THAKE WAS just 22 when he died. He was a pillion passenger on a motorbike which collided with a minibus in Wood Lane, Dagenham, last April and died at the scene of the accident. Driving the motorbike was Levi ...

TALKS ARE BEING held at ACAS today, Saturday, in an attempt to halt a 24 hour strike on London Underground (LU), due to begin on Sunday evening. The strike would involve members of the RMT union and members of the Transport ...

Emdad Rahman THE ICONIC Joanna Lumley was the guest of honour as the celebrated British actress officially opened the Sunseeker International stand at the London Boat Show. Lumley, who is best known for playing Patsy Stone in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, ...

THE RED CROSS has had to step in to bail out the NHS from collapsing under the weight of government neglect. While Health Minister Jeremy Hunt keeps up the pretence that the new junior hospital doctors’ contract is going to deliver ...

Emdad Rahman AN EAST END charity is appealing for help to support some of London’s most needy citizens. The Whitechapel based Human Relief Foundation (HRF) is calling on local residents to make generous donations of food as well as other essentials. These will ...