FROM TODAY – Friday, 6th April – there will be an extra tax on soft drinks which contain high levels of added sucrose (sugar). The tax has been put in place to reduce childhood obesity – but will it work? The ...

DANIEL FREDERICK died on 8th January in Hackney – another young life cut short by a stab wound. Police have now confirmed that a fourth person has been charged with this murder. He is a 16 year old male who ...

LONDON HAS experienced one of its highest incidences of knife crime in a single night as six young victims suffered knife attacks across the capital – with five of the victims being hurt in incidents in East London. •First came ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS the safety of the cladding used on Grenfell Tower after a BBC investigation revealed that tests had failed to prove it reached safety standards as early as 2014. Grenfell Tower caught fire in June 2017. A small fire ...

THE CYCLE OF street violence has moved up another notch with news that three teenagers have been stabbed just by the junction between Roman Road and Grove Road – in broad daylight, just before 6pm tonight, 5th April. The emergency ...

ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS, April becomes not just the month that begins with April Fool’s Day, but carries on as April Fool’s Month. We’ve already seen the traditional seasonal attacks on Jeremy Corbyn – now here come the allegations of ...

THE CAPITAL CONTINUES to clock up the killings. The toll for 2018 was already at 50 – but two deaths in Hackney yesterday, 4th April – have added to the misery of their loved ones and worried anxious parents across ...

MAY has spoken out – well, written out, in the Daily Telegraph – that the gender pay gap must be closed to tackle “burning injustice” in society and because “equality for women is a right”. Her criticisms are either hypocritical ...

POLICE are offering a reward of £20,000 for information which leads to the conviction of those who murdered “local hero” Abraham Badru in Dalston on 25th March. Abraham Badru died – at the scene of the incident, Ferncliff Road, E8 ...

The London Lions basketball team are in third place in the BBL table – and a top of the table clash on Easter Sunday saw them beat first placed Leicester Riders. The Lions had played three games in four days ...