IT HAS BEEN a long and painstaking investigation – but the work of the Metropolitan Police has finally paid off as two further men have been convicted of killing Raja Ali in Dagenham in 2016. The two new convicts are: ...

A NEW INITIATIVE has been set up to encourage London residents to use their parks. Working with the slogan #GoParksLondon, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the London Friends of Greenspaces Network have come together to popularise parks. The ...

A MAN WHO committed robberies across East London, as well as carrying out two bomb hoaxes, was sentenced to life imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court last week – with an order that he serve at least seven years. Omar Farooq, ...

THE ANTI-WAR movement across the UK was true to its word – turning out protestors in their tens of thousands to demonstrate that US President Donald Trump was not welcome in the UK. Trump hopped around Britain, avoid the protests ...

BURGLARY WENT wrong – but, even so, Paul Hensley, 57, of Code Street, E1, was given a six year prison sentence. Hensley appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court last Friday, where he was convicted of attempted robbery and possession of an ...

COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...

IT WAS 3rd May, around noon, and a cash delivery and collection was taking place at the Sainsbury’s shop on Hall Lane, Chingford. Two men, riding a blue and silver motor scooter approached. The pillion passenger got off the scooter ...

Emdad Rahman TEAM MC MEMBERS from Stepney undertook the challenge of scaling the three UK mountain peaks of Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon in 24 hours for a great charitable cause.  The team only decided to do the climb ...

POLICE HAVE found and charged the missing William Deo, who was being sought in connection with an attack in which a “noxious substance” – believe to be ammonia – was thrown. The incident happened at a residential address in Argyle ...

Emdad Rahman THE GREATER SYLHET Upazila Cup – Europe’s premier Bangladeshi football tournament is back. The football festival returns to Hackney Mabley Green and will feature teams representing the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. Balagonj and Osmaninagar and then Osmaninagar won ...