WE ARE getting the message that getting a Covid vaccine is a crucial step in defeating the global pandemic. However, the vaccination programme will only be really effective if everyone is vaccinated. That poses a real problem for people who ...

POLICE HAVE asked the public to help them find the young man who raped a young teenage girl in Goodmayes Park on Monday, 1st February. The incident occurred at round 2.30pm. The teenager was jogging round the Park when she ...

JOHN BIGGS appeared in (virtual) public last night, 17th February – but he continued to ignore requests to explain why he had gone for a walk with Cllr Ehtasham Haque around the St John’s estate, E14. The meeting was organised ...

A NINE YEAR OLD boy, who has taken on the name “Active Musa”, is trying to become one of YouTube’s newest influencers. Musa joined the Little Litter League as they cleaned up their local park in Barking & Dagenham earlier ...

IT’S BEEN A busy time for police officers from the Metropolitan Police East Area Command (which covers Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge). They have closed and dismantled 72 cannabis factories over the last six months. The police believe that ...

WHY DID THE UK BAME community suffer disproportionately from the Covid pandemic? Because institutional racism in UK society let BAME people live in overcrowded conditions and take the lowest grade jobs. Why did the Black Lives Matter movement protest so ...

Muhammad Hamza Rahman THE TEAM AT Capital Kids Cricket has been very busy this half term delivering online classes, coaching and activities for children and families. Additionally, volunteers have chosen to engage in supporting a community which has been hit ...

A MAN has appeared at Thames Magistrates Court charged with impersonating a police officer. He has been named as Martin McCarthy, 29, of Fairfoot Road, E3, in Tower Hamlets. It is alleged that McCarthy impersonated a police officer in the ...

IS YOUR school shut? Are you a bit bored now it’s half term? In fact, are you a bit bored with lockdown and school being closed? Then look no further: Musa is going to show you what you can do. ...

IT IS 50 YEARS since the first Asian woman joined the Metropolitan Police. PC Karpal Kaur Sandhu joined the force in 1971. The Met held a special – virtual – event to mark the occasion and remember this pioneering woman. ...