MORE THAN 120 firefighters have spent the day tackling a massive blaze in a warehouse in New Road, Rainham. The fire was spotted at around 10.20am and was brought under control by 3pm. The warehouse is believed to be a ...

WES STREETING MP, Secretary of State for Health, has announced that the NHS is “broken” – and he has a Baldrick-style “Cunning Plan” to mend it. What Streeting hasn’t confessed is that it wasn’t the Tories who broke the NHS ...

MUSLIM CHARITY Islamic Relief has produced a report to share memories of the many fundraising events which supporters have undertaken across the world over the last year. It’s also making plans for 2025. It’s an impressive list. There’s been a ...

IT SEEMS obvious: poor people don’t have the opportunities that wealthy people do when it comes to putting a roof over their heads. Now this has been confirmed by research conducted by award winning mortgage adviser Alexander Hall. Alexander Hall’s ...

THERE ARE many good reasons to join the Stop the War Coalition. The last year has seen more and more wars springing up – wars between countries and wars on people. Let’s work together to stop them. To underline how ...

AN APPEAL has come out from the British Transport Police for witnesses to an assault on a woman travelling on a Central Line Tube to come forward. The assault took place at around 3.30pm on Monday, 2nd December. A woman ...

HARLOW IS miles away from East London, but apparently the Harlow & District Sports Trust runs a place called the Harlow Leisurezone – and they have found time to comment on some recent research. Someone has looked into how often ...

A MAYOR will always want to implement their Manifesto – but some, it seems, will find it easier than others. For example… In 2015, Labour’s John Biggs promised that if he was elected he would give the Rich Mix Centre ...

PULL YOUR socks up, East London! There’s a huge number of eateries – food joints of all sorts – featured on the Feed The Lion (FTL) awards shortlist, and East London is a desert, with hardly any outlets on the ...

HE HAS BEEN found guilty of a list of serious sexual crimes against a child, but police are now wondering whether he had committed any previous crimes. They are calling on any other victims to contact them. At Wood Green ...