Muhammad Talha BOOKBIKE LONDON is an innovative community project which uses cyclists to deliver books free of charge to elderly residential homes, hostels, hospital wards and local organisations in East London. It aims to share books with people who are ...

POLICE ARE investigating a number of blackmail threats which appear to have been made by the same man. He rings people up and threatens violence against them and their families if they do not pay him large sums of money. ...

50 YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...

A SECOND MAN has now been charged with murder and with attempted murder in connection with two shootings which took place in Ilford last November.  He has been named as Tyrelle Joseph, 20, of Banks Way, E12. The first shooting ...

ISSUES WITHIN the hospitality industry as a result of the Covid pandemic were on the agenda when the Bangladeshi Catering Association held a virtual meeting with Kier Starmer MP, Leader of the Opposition, and Lord Bilimoria, founder and Chair of ...

THREE MEN who tried to organise a robbery have each been jailed for six and a half years. The three were found guilty of attempted robbery on 18th December 2020 at the end of a trial at the Old Bailey ...

Khaled Noor, Principal of Blackstones Solicitors, looks at how to make a will which will satisfy English law and Islamic principles. OUR LIFE ON Planet Earth is limited: one is making plans for what to do with one’s life… then ...

A MAN WHO murdered a woman as she slept on the steps of the Memorial Community Church in Barking Road, Newham, has been sent to jail for life at a sentencing hearing at the Old Bailey. The convicted man – ...

ANOTHER CHAPTER in the long running dispute between cab service Uber and the British state ended today, as the Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers – at least, the two who brought the test case – are workers. The saga ...

THERE HAVE been two robberies in the area of Plashet Park, Newham, E12 this month – and police are appealing to the public to come forward with any information which may assist them to stop this menace. The first offence ...