FIREWORKS come out at Hallowe’en, at Diwali and on bonfire night: and in Tower Hamlets, that means a concentrated period of fire-related calls coming through to Fire Service control centres. A total of 685 emergency calls from Tower Hamlets have ...

LIANNE GORDON did not deserve to die. She was sheltering behind the front door of her home in Vine Road, Hackney E5 when she was shot by a 17 year old teenager – who was part of a gang dispute. ...

Cllr Gulam Choudhury, Cabinet member for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, has congratulated the Create Community Hub as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Create was born as the Coborn Opportunities Project on 14th October 1984. The London Dockland Development Corporation ...

CHAIIWALA, the fast expanding all-halal “Indian” streetfood cafe, has today opened its second outlet in an airport. It’s their 120th restaurant across the globe. The new outlet is at Birmingham airport and follows the first one at Luton airport. Now ...

POLICE WERE called out to Thorne Close, near Rogers Road, E16 at just after 2am on Saturday morning as reports came in that someone had been shot. Police and the London Ambulance Service attended. They found two young men, aged ...

IT WAS not so much the knights of the round table as the suited and booted politicians of the round table as London Mayor Sadiq Khan sat politicians, experts and campaigners down on 29th October to discuss an Action Plan ...

THE EAST END was shocked to read that a woman and two young children were stabbed in Dagenham last week. All three were taken to hospital – fortunately none of them had life threatening injuries. The man arrested at the ...

UK FOOTBALL Authorities are divided about whether Muslim women can observe their religion and play football in the UK at the same time – even if you did used to be the captain of the Somali women’s team. The row ...

THE ISRAELI state has today banned the UN’s Palestine Refugee Agency, UNRWA, from operating inside the Israeli state or in any areas which the Israeli state occupies an controls. The ban seems to be designed to stop the UN delivering ...

ACTIVISTS have today spent a couple of hours in Bethnal Green gardens commemorating those who have died in Gaza. Perhaps you were there. Perhaps you couldn’t get there. Either way, please end your weekend by signing these two letters protesting ...