“I’M NOT LISTENING” is the message Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs sent to residents and councillors last Friday, 16th August. Just two days after councillors on the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) asked him to reconsider his decision to ...

CONTROVERSIAL EAST HAM MP Stephen Timms took time out to visit a holiday club at a local primary school last week. The Club was part of Sainsbury’s Active Kids scheme, which supports activities in 70 locations across the UK. The ...

POLICE ARE searching for evidence after a premeditated attack on Owen Jones left the campaigning journalist hurt but not intimidated. Jones was with five friends in the Lexington pub in Pentonville Road, Islington on Friday evening – leaving at around ...

THERE WERE NO goals to enjoy at Orient’s Breyer Group Stadium on Saturday as neither side’s attack managed to break through their opponent’s defence and find the back of the net. Orient’s James Brophy was the first to break through. ...

POLICE are appealing to the public for help in finding Suemaya Begum, 15, who is missing from her home in Camden. Suemaya was last seen at about 1.20pm on Friday, 9th August at her home in Regents Park, NW1 – ...

ENGLAND BASKETBALL player Orlan Jackman is pround of his East London roots – and credits his Hackney school for believing in him, encouraging him and helping him to find his sporting destiny. Jackman always wanted to play for England and ...

WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. Half ...

A FORMER special constable appeared at Southwark Crown Court on 14th August and pleaded guilty to a charge of committing fraud by abuse of position. He is Moshin Nadeem, 27, of Babbacombe Gardens, Ilford. The Court heard that Nadeem used ...

THERE WILL BE record numbers of sports for women and para sports at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022. This has become clear after the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) announced the new sports to be included in the ...

ONE HUNDRED bags of Qurbani meat have been distributed to the local community thanks to a joint effort by international relief charity Islamic Relief and the East London Mosque & London Muslim Centre. Many recipients of the meat are from ...