SATURDAY WILL see the public launch of a major initiative to investigate Islamophobia in the judicial system and legal profession of the UK – and make recommendations on how to challenge and eradicate it. The project is the brainchild of ...

MOST POLICING in London is carried out by human officers in the Metropolitan Police. Sometimes they receive assistance from four legged friends, who make a unique contribution to the fight against crime. Three incidents last month show how dogs help ...

Muhammad Talha THE KIND COUNTER, a new community social support and networking platform, has been launched in Tower Hamlets. It is a wellbeing communication platform which will be used to share books, food, clothes, stationary and bespoke items with anyone ...

A FOURTH MAN has been sentenced for the murder of Abdulrahman Nassor Juma (known as Mani), who was chased and stabbed to death in the street near his home in Barking in May 2018. The fourth man is Warrick Carson, ...

THROUGHOUT the pandemic – as people fell ill, as the community rallied round to help those in need, and as we sheltered in lockdown – Mosques across East London have been at the heart of community support. Mosques, like the ...

AS POLICE entered the front of the property in Dereham Road, Barking, IG11, Dritan Muja went out the back. With the assistance of a drugs dog, officers quickly caught up with him and detained him. The raid took place on ...

NO CHILD should go hungry! That was the aim of the Island Network as they carried out a mega delivery of food parcels to primary schools on the Isle of Dogs, E14, last weekend. Not only was there a delivery ...

THEIR VICTIM sustained a head injury – which could have been a whole lot worse – in what appears to have been an unprovoked late night attack in High Road, Ilford, near the Marks and Spencer store, on Saturday, 5th ...

AS SAFETY CONCERNS drive more passengers to abandon crowded public transport and travel by cabs, drivers of private hire vehicles are becoming increasingly worried about their own safety. Their concerns were described by Rema Diallo on The Tuesday Show earlier ...

TWO TEENAGERS have been convicted at the Old Bailey of the murder of Santino Angelo Dymiter. The murder happened in Chadd Green, E13, in Newham in August 2019. One of the two teens convicted has been named as Rahlem Anderson, ...