Emdad Rahman IN ASSOCIATION with Barking & Dagenham (LBBD) Community Health, the Leftley Sports Club (LSC) is now an accredited Healthy Lifestyle Partner for the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham. As part of the partnership, the Borough has formally invited ...

THE JANUARY edition of The Voice, online newsletter of the East London Garden Society (ELGS), is out now – beginning the New Year by renewing its pledge to try to organise a Londonwide gardening show. London is one of the ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has responded to the New Year stabbings across London by reminding schools that he has offered to supply them with “knife wands” – metal detectors which help schools check that pupils are not bringing knives onto ...

BREXIT – and the Government’s mishandling of negotiations – is laying the basis for a long term decline in the British economy. This is the view of Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Shadow Business Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Her comments ...

THE FILM PAD MAN will be released on 26th January – but fans of Sonam Kapoor and Akshay Kumar don’t have to wait that long before they can enjoy part of the experience. Hu Ba Hu, a song from the ...

A MAN HAS BEEN charged with the murder of a woman in Ilford on 3rd January. The 44 year old woman was found in Norfolk Road, Ilford, that evening – suffering from serious stab wounds. She died at the scene. ...

OFFICERS will return to Memorial Avenue, West Ham on Sunday, 7th January – a week after a young man lost his life in one of the four fatal stabbings which happened in London around New Year’s Eve. The murdered man ...

AN ILFORD MAN was arrested on 2nd January and charged with the murder of Raja Ali, who lost his life on 25th September 2016, at Braintree Road in Dagenham. The man charged is Navarda Rhooms, 26, of Eton Road, Ilford.  ...

WHAT HAPPENS if Brexit sees tens of thousands of financial sector jobs disappear from East London? That was the question rippling through East London, as politicians wondered if the Colman’s closure would be repeated in the capital. Yesterday Colman’s, manufacturers ...

A GANG OF three con artists stage a distraction theft in the Natwest Bank on East Street, Barking in September – and police are trying to identify and locate the suspects. It was around noon on 16th September 2017 when ...