MIDWIFE LAURA MacNeil, 24, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 5th January. She had previously pleaded guilty to 27 counts of theft of morphine, a Class A drug, at Barkingside ...

JAMES ROBERTS has been jailed for life for the murder of Aidan O’Mahony in Hornchurch a year ago. Roberts, 32, of Ambleside Avenue, Hornchurch, was convicted just before Christmas. On 6th January he was back in the Old Bailey, where ...

SEAN THAKE WAS just 22 when he died. He was a pillion passenger on a motorbike which collided with a minibus in Wood Lane, Dagenham, last April and died at the scene of the accident. Driving the motorbike was Levi ...

TALKS ARE BEING held at ACAS today, Saturday, in an attempt to halt a 24 hour strike on London Underground (LU), due to begin on Sunday evening. The strike would involve members of the RMT union and members of the Transport ...

Emdad Rahman THE ICONIC Joanna Lumley was the guest of honour as the celebrated British actress officially opened the Sunseeker International stand at the London Boat Show. Lumley, who is best known for playing Patsy Stone in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, ...

THE RED CROSS has had to step in to bail out the NHS from collapsing under the weight of government neglect. While Health Minister Jeremy Hunt keeps up the pretence that the new junior hospital doctors’ contract is going to deliver ...

Emdad Rahman AN EAST END charity is appealing for help to support some of London’s most needy citizens. The Whitechapel based Human Relief Foundation (HRF) is calling on local residents to make generous donations of food as well as other essentials. These will ...

THE ALL-PARTY Parliamentary Group on Social Integration has called on the Government to force all immigrants to the UK to learn English before they come to the UK or to enrol in classes as soon as they arrive. The Group, the ...

A CANADIAN research team has found that the rate of dementia in the population is higher among those who live near busy roads. The research followed a massive sample – nearly two million people – in Ontario over eleven years ...

POLICE ARE asking the public to come forward with any information about a man who robbed a mother of her handbag in a New Year’s Day attack. The woman was pushing her child in a pram along Darenth Road, N15 ...