“I’M INCREDIBLY honoured to be nominated, let alone be shortlisted,” said PC Ben Forbes in response to the news that he is one of eight people from across the UK to have been shortlisted for a National Diversity Award. PC ...

A TEAM OF 14 police constables, two sergeants and an inspector from the Met Police have gone out to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to help with local law enforcement after Hurricane Irma devastated the area. The team flew out ...

HACKNEY STREETS are a tiny bit safer as this summer’s “Operation Sceptre” has seen police seize knives and drugs. The hauls come from a number of pro-active initiatives, including weapons sweeps – and led to a number of arrests. Among ...

THE CHARITY Human Appeal has been supplying aid to the Rohingya people in refugee camps on the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh for nearly a year now – and the need is growing rather than diminishing. The crisis has been ...

WAS JUST AFTER 11pm on 18th March that police were called out to a flat in Wilberforce Road, Hackney, N4, after reports that two children had been injured. Police and the Ambulance Service attended. An ambulance took the two children ...

Emdad Rahman THE BANGLADESH Football Association (BFA) Summer League Cup finals, sponsored by the Sonali Bank, return to Mile End Stadium on Monday, 18th September. The vets Cup Final will see Newark face Pervez Chowdhury’s Sylhet FC. In the Sonali Bank ...

The Metropolitan Police and Equality and Human Rights Commission have issued the following statement on matters relating to discrimination within the Met. In September 2016 the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) published the findings of their investigation into how ...

“IT’S YET ANOTHER damning verdict on his mayoralty.” That’s how Tower Hamlets Independent Councillors describe yesterday’s announcement that the Government will send in “Intervention Advisors” to supervise Tower Hamlets Council’s work to improve Children’s Services, rated as “inadequate” by Ofsted this April. ...

TOWER HAMLETS Councillors have begun to react to the shocking news that the Government is sending in “Intervention Advisors” to supervise the Council’s work to  improve its Children’s Services. Opposition People’s Alliance leader Cllr Rabina Khan has pointed out that ...

CAN JOHN BIGGS survive the latest scandal to hit his controversial Administration? The tables have turned, and the Government has announced that it is to send “Intervention Advisers” in to Tower Hamlets to monitor the Council’s “inadequate” Children’s Services. Labour ...