Emdad Rahman THE BARKING COMMUNITY FORUM (BCF) raised £2,170.39 from Friday Jumauh prayers which took place at the Hedgecock Community Centre. The funds will go towards the Syria Emergency Appeal for Ghouta. UK charity Muslim Aid has launched a Syria ...

IT WAS A jail sentence of seven years for seven offences of holding a person in slavery or servitude for Leyton man David Lupu, 29. The sentence was handed down at the Inner London Crown Court, along with a slavery ...

Emdad Rahman The latest Hope & Knowledge Cycle Club charity ride saw a group of 78 cyclists brave the elements to cycle from London’s East End to England’s southeast coast.  The charity cycle from London to Margate involved riders raising ...

AN EAST LONDON man has been jailed for three years, after being convicted of “attempting to take a child so as to remove him/her from a person having lawful control”. The convict is Tariq Qayyum, 61, of Chadwell Heath. The ...

A PALLET OF BRICKS fell from a crane in Burdett Road, Mile End, this morning – critically injuring a young woman who was passing by. Witnesses said that the pallet landed on her as she walked along the pavement. The ...

HERE THEY COME, Labour’s right wing – gunning for Corbyn, just as we predicted three days ago. Behind their current claims that Corbyn is soft on opposing anti-semitism is the recognition the only way the Right can regain control of ...

AS LOCAL health campaigners prepared to demonstrate in Chrisp Street Market on Thursday lunchtime, they have issued a new warning about why “on-line GPs” are bad news for patients. “There’s no place in East London for GP at hand,” they ...

SHERRARD ROAD, Manor Park, was the scene of a vicious attack last August as Emil Asparuhov Hristov, 40, murdered his 29 year old housemate, Dimitar Petrov, who died at the scene from multiple stab wounds. Hristov was convicted at the ...

Emdad Rahman THE NEWHAM LEISURE CENTRE hosted a unique football festival as East London Bus Drivers united to take part in a charity football tournament for the Rohingya people of Myanmar. A twelve team tournament ended with Leyton Ballers of ...

A PIZZA TAKEAWAY outlet in Brentwood Road, Romford, was robbed by four men armed with knives on Wednesday, 14th March. The incident occurred around midnight. Police believe that three of the suspects entered the shop while one remained outside as ...