EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...

THE LONDON FIRE Brigade has warned everyone to take care when holding a barbecue outdoors – or when discarding cigarettes. Last year London endured a spate of grass fires as the grass dried out and residents forgot how easily it ...

Going back to school on Monday? Going back to deal with The Problem?    

A MAN HAS been charged with Grievous Bodily Harm after an assault in Plaistow Park, E13, left a 61 year old man with a serious head injury. The incident took place in broad daylight, with police being called about at ...

IT IS “thanks to the bigotry of a few” was what rebel Labour MP Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Yardley part of Birmingham told the BBC. She was reacting to a decision by the City Council to ban protests ...

HACKNEY POLICE are looking for people who had their phones stolen in or around Old Street and Pitfield Street on 30th or 31st May. A man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of mobile phones in the area, and ...

THE COUNCIL has a new “Speaker” – Cllr Victoria Obaze, who was elected at the AGM on 15th May. But will she be a dignitary who sits in the Town Hall or one who comes out and confronts difficult issues ...

A MAN WITH A controlling personality finally lost control – and brutally murdered his wife. This is the essence of a longer story which the Old Bailey listened to for ten days – before convicting Muhammad Javed, 59, of Staines ...

HOME SECRETARY Sajid Javid is the second leading Tory to be accused of an abuse of power in the last few days. Tasnime Akunjee, the lawer to Shamima Begum, has written to him with the accusation. Shamima Begum was one ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 3 You don’t have to be a millionaire, a big shot, a celebrity to bring about change. If that were the case, then why do many people carry out unpaid service – stating that a simple ...