TWO YOUNG ROBBERS who used a corrosive liquid to attack their victims were each been sentenced to 14 years in prison last week at a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey. Sadik Kamara, 24, of Booth Road, Newham, and Joshua ...

A YOUNG MAN lost his life in Hackney last Thursday, after being stabbed in Christie Road, at the junction with Cassland Road. He was just 24. An ambulance was called at approximately 4.45pm. Paramedics called the police and the air ...

A NEWHAM man has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for being in possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and two rounds of ammunition – while out of prison, on licence, for a previous firearms offence. ...

A BANGLADESHI MAN has been held by New York police following what appears to have been an attempted rush-hour terror attack on a major transport hub in the US city. Police assume the suspect was aiming to detonate a bomb ...

POLICE ARE appealing for witnesses to a serious collision which took place in Glen Road, at the junction with Prince Regent Lane, on Wednesday, 6th December. Reports came through to the emergency services at around 9.20pm that a car had ...

NEWARK YOUTH are celebrating their involvement in an unusual education programme which aims to help youngsters improve their educational achievement and aspirations in order to improve the chances of finding employment. The programme is “sporteducate”, which uses sport to engage ...

POLICE HAVE charged a man with the murder of Adetokunbo Jordan Ajobo, known as Jordan Ajobo, in Newham on 8th November. Ajobo was fatally stabbed after being set upon by a gang armed with machetes. Two men, both aged 21, ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE & Muslim Centre is seeking appoint a Media & Communications Manager – a newly created post to develop public relations which are becoming increasingly important for the Mosque and Centre. The successful applicant will have to ...

TWO CONSTABLES have been dismissed from the Metropolitan Police following case hearings held on 1st December. •PC Lucas Beach was based at the East Area Command Unit in Romford. He appeared at Basildon Crown Court on 29th June, where he pleaded ...

THE TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) “School of excellence pupil-led project award 2017” was handed to the London Islamic School at City Hall last week. The presentation was made by Dr Will Norman, the London Mayor’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner. The ...