NO SOONER had the Chancellor given a glowing account of the economy in his Spring statement than Toys R Us announced it was going into administration with the loss of 3,000 jobs. Since then there have been further announcements of ...

A Hackney man was found in possession of cannabis and an offensive weapon (a knife) on 11th April – and just two days later he was in Court, pleading guilty. He has been remanded in custody, and within a month ...

CHANCELLOR Philip Hammond will be delighted with the news that unemployment for the last quarter fell by 16,000 to 1.42 million. The unemployment rate is now 4.2% – the lowest since May 1975 – and the number of people in ...

IT’S NOT CLEAR why Peter Brown, 29, of Stanford-Le-Hope thought it was a good idea to wave an imitation firearm at a group of youngsters out on Wellington Road, Newham – but it won him a ten year, nine month ...

POLICE NEED help finding a second man who was involved in an unprovoked attack in Ilford last November. A suspect will be on trial next week – and police are still looking for his accomplice. The assault occurred just after ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE TRUST (ELMT) is looking for an archivist to manage and develop its growing Archive Collection. The ELMT would like to organise the many documents it already holds into a structured archive of the formal records of ...

AN EAST LONDON teenager died last night after being stabbed in Forest Gate, Newham. He is thought to have been just 18 years old. This morning, police cordons were still up around the scene. The emergency services received a call ...

HE WAS IN A position of trust as a Scout Leader, but Antony Allen betrayed that trust – and now he has been sentenced to 11 years in jail after being convicted of a series of sexual offences against minors. ...

Muhammad Rahman A DELEGATION FROM Neighbours in Poplar have returned after spending a day in Calais, France, as part of an aid deployment to support refugees and migrants. They delivered arts, crafts and footballs to Calais refugees. Sister Christine Frost ...

The man who died outside a bookmaker’s in Upper Clapton Road, Hackney, on 4th April has been named as Babatunde Akintayo Awofeso (also known as Bobby), aged 53, from Springfield. Despite receiving emergency medical treatment, Mr Awofeso died at the ...