A TRIP TO BUY A Christmas tree turned out to be an expensive outing for one East London woman. She left her handbag on the driver’s seat of her car as she loaded the tree into the boot. Once the ...
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It’s Arlain -v- Cooper in York Hall showdown
YORK HALL WILL see a “battle of the unbeaten” on 11th March, when local E2 resident Jamie Arlain takes on Southampton’s Jimmy Cooper in the Kevin Campion promoted show “Knuckle 2 Knuckle”. For one of the two lightweights, it will ...
Read More »Brave police officer foils robbery
POLICE SERGEANT Weeden’s courage has apprehended a street robbery suspect in Hackney. Sergeant Weeden was patrolling along Stoke Newington High Street near the junction with Tyson Street, N16, just after 5.30pm on Wednesday, 11th January. She saw a man conducting ...
Read More »Studies link stress and heart attacks
ARE YOU LOOKING after your amygdala? No, we didn’t know we had one either. The amygdala is a small group of cells deep inside the medial temporal lobe (roughly, on the side of your head above the ear). The cells ...
Read More »Unite’s McCluskey backs minimum wage campaign
LEN McCLUSKEY, General Secretary of the Unite trade union, has given his full support to a government campaign to raise awareness of the minimum wage – but he has warned that sanctions on employers who are found out breaking the ...
Read More »Migrants: a political football across EU
GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...
Read More »Illegal fags a drag for shop owner
A BURDETT ROAD shop owner has been fined £10,000 for possessing illegal cigarettes – and was ordered to pay Tower Hamlets Council’s legal costs too, estimated at around £3,000. The fine came after the Council prosecuted Oho LT, the company ...
Read More »More calls to solve NHS crisis
THERESA MAY and Jeremy Hunt are still in denial about the serious problems in the NHS, as ever more professional bodies call for urgent action. The Royal College of Nursing has called the state of the NHS “the worst” that ...
Read More »Scintilla CC announces new sponsor
Emdad Rahman SCINTILLA CRICKET CLUB is proud to announce, ahead of the 2017 season, that East End Logistics will be one of the Club’s new sponsors. Managing Director Rob Dewan Syed will also be taking up a new role as ...
Read More »Mustafa Shahid hat-trick sees Stepney FC retain top spot
Muhammad Ismael MUSTAFA SHAHID scored the perfect hat trick as Stepney FC made hard work of beating Robin Hood Tigers to start 2017 at the top of the Inner London Winter Football League. Muj Rahman’s men went a goal down ...
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