ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...

LAST SEPTEMBER the Home Office launched a scheme called StreetSafe in an attempt to make London’s streets safer for the public. Just eight months later, the Metropolitan Police have had 3,272 reports of unsafe areas – nearly 75% of which ...

ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...

HE’LL BE detained for a decade, after Snaresbrook Crown Court sentenced him to seven years in prison and three further years on licence thereafter – for a series of stabbings carried out at random in Hackney. The jailed man is ...

Muhi Mikdad FOR THE PAST seven years, Ashid Ali, principal of the London Enterprise Academy (LEA), has been organising the many cultural events held at the school. Mr Ali is one of the few British-Bangladeshi headteachers in the UK. To ...

A HACKNEY MAN has been charged with the murder of Yasmin Begum, 40, who died in Bethnal Green on 24th March. The man who was charged has been named as Quyum Miah, 40, of High Street, Homerton. He was also ...

COUNCILS IN England and Wales have made public their concerns over government delays in the process of housing and taking care of Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war in their country. The concerns were raised by the Local Government ...

BREAKING NEWS: Police and the London Ambulance Service went out to a residential property in Globe Road, Bethnal Green, this afternoon after receiving reports of concerns for the welfare of a woman in the property. They found a 40 year ...

POLICE HAVE released a photo of a man they wish to find and question in connection with a number of thefts – possibly around 20 – on London buses in and around Newham. The man has been named as Gigi ...

Muhammad Hamza BARKING & DAGENHAM school boy Mustafa Abidin has launched a Ramadan charity challenge to raise money for local projects. Mustafa will be completing his challenge the month of Ramadan, when Muslims all over the world observe a month of ...