AS A NATIONAL amnesty tries to take converted top venting blank firearms off the streets, a reminder comes from Dagenham about how easy it is to convert the guns into even more lethal weapons. Luke Parr, 23, of Maxey Road, ...

THREE railway companies have joined forces to run a competition for the second year running. This year they are celebrating “Railway 200”, which marks 200 years of the modern railway. The companies Southern Rail, Thameslink and Great Northern have each ...

GUNS ARE NOT cool. They are dangerous. They hurt people and often kill them. They don’t stop violence – the escalate it. Produce a gun you carry “to defend myself” and the only way to stop you is a bullet. ...

A SMALL number of drinks produced by Coca Cola Europacific Partners have been recalled because they contain higher levels of the chemical chlorate than usual. The risk is low – especially to those who only consume these drinks occasionally. However, ...

IT WAS a text book case in hownot to rob a restaurant. And now two men have been found guilty of burgling a Camden eatery in a story which could be the basis of a “Carry On Burgling” film. The ...

IT WAS unprecedented. Tower Hamlets Councillors united, almost to a person, to stop the Council’s pension fund investing in companies involved in the arms trade. The Council and its employees both contribute a small sum to a pension fund each ...