FOR SEVERAL days it seemed that US President Donald Trump had retracted his threat to escalate the war on Iran by bombing its civil infrastructure – in favour of negotiating a settlement. Now the talks are off. Hopes were first ...

FOUR MEN have been arrested following the death of a young man in Leyton. He was stabbed. The Metropolitan Police received reports shortly after midnight on Thursday, 23rd April that a group of people were fighting in Saint George’s Road, ...

IT’S RODENTS again! There has been a series of food retailers withdrawing products from sale due to potential rodent contamination. The latest is Saffron Pastries. The company provides a series of cakes, rusks and biscuits – and the products they ...

THE BANK of England has predicted that global stock market are about to fall. With unusual candour, it has warned that share prices are too high and do not reflect the risks that the global economy is facing. The view ...

KEIR STARMER has told the House of Commons why he did not know that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting. MPs listened in an atmosphere which veered between stony indifference and incandescent outrage. At the outrage end, two MPs ...

IT’S A CEASEFIRE in Israel’s attack on Lebanon, starting at 10pm UK time tonight. It’s talks too, as US President Donald Trump invites both parties to the White House. It’s about time we saw a ceasefire. This ceasefire is not ...

THE GOVERNMENT is tackling childhood obesity in many ways – and one of them is a ban on advertising foods high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS). Retailers can’t advertise junk food on television before 9pm or online at any ...

THE MOST authentic castle in England nestles at the western end of Tower Hamlets, but locals trying to visit face a huge barrier: the cost. Recent research has found that the Tower from which Tower Hamlets gets half its name ...

IT’S ESCALATION. That is how US President Donald Trump is going to deal with the collapse of peace talks with Iran. We say “peace talks” – but as Trump gave them a single day, they were more a case of ...

FIFTY YEARS AGO we were humming along to the hits of 1976. Some have magnificently stood the test of time; others have not. Join us on Memory Lane as we review them on their golden anniversaries. It really wasn’t a ...