NICHOLAS HOLGATE, Chief Executive of Kensington & Chelsea Council, has resigned in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. Holgate explained that the Government’s Communities and Local Government Secretary, the Rt Hon.Sajid Javid MP had told the Leader of Kensington ...

Shah Yousuf A CRANE collapsed onto a house in Crewe, Cheshire – leaving two men dead and three people in hospital. The incident occurred at approximately 4.30pm as the crane was working on a new housing estate near the Bombardier ...

IMAGINE THE scenario. An unelected leader visits a country’s parliament – and sits in a chamber of unelected members of parliament and summons the elected representatives of the people to hear what the elected leader has sanctioned as the legislative ...

TOWER HAMLETS PATH Councillors have launched a petition calling on Labour’s Executive Mayor, John Biggs, to undertake a number of measures to improve fire safety in the Borough. Already the petition is gathering support at a rate of knot, with ...

A MAN WHO stabbed a plain clothes police officer in an alleyway off the Bow Road and assaulted a member of the public has been jailed for twelve years – with a further two years on extended licence. Andrew Beadie ...

A HUGE LINE-UP of UK popstars have this morning released a charity single to raise funds for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. The single is a special recording of Bridge over Troubled Water. The single was arranged by ...

TOWER HAMLETS Independent Group of Councillors has marked the Queen’s Speech by sending an Open Letter to the two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets – Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) and Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow), The Letter deals ...

TWO WOMEN – one from Tower Hamlets and one from Ilford – pleaded guilty to charges relating to escaped prisoners when they appeared at Blackfriars Crown Court last week. Kelly Baker, 22, of Friars Close, Ilford, pleaded guilty to a ...

IN NOVEMBER last year, CAGE International Director Muhammad Rabbani came back to the UK from a trip overseas. As he passed through Heathrow, police took various electronic device from him – and demanded that Rabbani hand over his passwords. Rabbani ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have asked the Government for more funds to cover the extra commitment to dealing with terrorist attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire which it has had to provide in recent weeks. The Met is also keeping up ...