KAAN ASLAN DIED last November – as Monday, 13th November turned into Tuesday, 14th November. It seems that he was returning home from a late shift delivering fast food – and when he got to the Nightingale Estate in Hackney ...

ON 24TH JANUARY, we published a story about child poverty in Tower Hamlets. We are delighted to report that on 25th January Tower Hamlets Council kindly sent us two corrections to the article – which we are of course happy to ...

IT IS revealed that Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of child poverty in the UK, the borough’s two MPs have expressed their shock but are short of suggestions on action they – or we – could take to improve ...

Emdad Rahman A SHORT CINEMATIC masterpiece by acclaimed director Abrar Hussain took centre stage in London’s East End as crowds flocked to the Genesis cinema to watch a feature documentary film based on The Haram in Makkah. One Day in ...

ALL EYES ARE turning to Executive Mayor John Biggs as it is revealed that children in four constituencies in the UK are more likely than not to grow up in poverty – and two of the four are in Tower ...

HE IS JUST nine years old – and he has been missing since Tuesday, 23rd January. That was the day when Shiloh Collier-Roberts was last seen – just after 10am, at his home address in Barking. •STORY UPDATE: Shiloh has ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has held a summit meeting with representatives from the Motorcycle Industry Association (MCIA) to talk about how they can work together to reduce motorcycle and scooter crime. MCIA was keen to bring Sadiq Khan up to ...

“IF THIS IS ‘transparent’ government, we’ll never find out what’s going on,” said Cllr Maium Miah. The Canary Wharf councillor was speaking about his long battle to to find out how the Council decides where to site outdoor gyms. The ...

IS IT TURNING into UKIP? Tory Party members must be wondering whether they have woken up in another party, as leading Tories in the Government are squabbling with each other in a way we usually only see in UKIP. The ...

WHERE IS 16 year old Lisa Valencia? Lisa lives in Lambeth, but last Wednesday, 17th January, she was reported missing. On Saturday, 20th January, she visited Stratford. She was pictured on CCTV visiting Westfield Stratford City during the afternoon, and ...