TOWER HAMLETS’ Trading Standards Officers’ faces lit up as they surveyed their latest haul of illicit tobacco – seized from retailers across the borough after a six week long crackdown. Officers went around the borough and made test purchases from ...

EAST HAM RESIDENT Ahmet Dobran, 82, went out on the evening of Sunday, 27th August last year – little realising that his life was about to change for ever. He was brutally attacked and never really recovered. Now his life ...

GREEN AND ECO-CONSCIOUS mums may well be heading back to Iceland to do their shopping, as the supermarket has announced a war on plastic wrapping. It’s set itself the target of being plastic-free within five years. Campaigners have been pointing ...

A RANGE OF dignitaries gathered at Parsloes Park on Monday to for a ground-breaking ceremony – literally. A spade was ceremonially plunged into the turf to start building works on a major new facility for the borough’s young people. The ...

INFLATION CAME DOWN to 3% in December, according to figures just released by the Office of National Statistics. It could be worse – but this is not enough to see Theresa May dancing a jig in her Downing Street office. ...

LONDON COUNCILS appear to have escaped the worst effects of the Carillion collapse, according to research by the BBC. The BBC has revealed a list of London Councils which have told them that they have no work being carried out ...

CAMPAIGNERS TRYING to stop London Mayor Sadiq Khan vandalising Fish Island by permitting a new road bridge to be built and a wharf to be demolished are having a publicity day on Tuesday, 16th January. Activists from the Save the ...

Emdad Rahman BISHWANATH UNITED kicked off 2018 with a charity match for the Bangladesh Regeneration Trust UK (BRTUK). The game in Newham raised much needed funds for the charity’s Rohingya appeal, with BRT Chair Naz Bhai playing in goal as ...

Md Talha THERE WAS A goal blitz at Stepney as Beanibazar and Chhattak played out a friendly game in aid of the Beanibazar Cancer Hospital.  Goyas Miah and Shiraz Miah bought the Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup champions to Stepney to ...

ENGLAND CRICKET STAR Ben Stokes bas been charged with affray and will appear at Bristol Magistrates’ Court to answer the charge. Also charged in relation to the same incident are Ryan Ali, 28, and Ryan Hale, 26. The charges arise ...