FOOTBALL SCHOOL authors Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton are the face of this year’s Where’s Wally? fun run, which will be raising money to support the work of the National Literacy Trust. This year’s event – named the “Weekender” – will take ...
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Island Network says, “thanks, Vestey!”
IT WAS A big thank you to Vestey Foods Ltd earlier this week, as Island Network volunteers packed up food deliveries to take to elderly and needy residents on the Isle of Dogs. Donations had already been gratefully received from ...
Read More »Cannabis smell lures cops to London Fields knife stash
A POLICE PATROL in the London Fields area, E8, has uncovered a number of knives, a small amount of cannabis and two motor vehicle registration plates. As the patrol went along Wilman Grove at around 6pm on 20th January, they ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 years ago/4
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 ...
Read More »Are apologies enough when lockdown rules are broken?
AROUND THE UK Councillors have been helping local communities during the various Covid lockdowns and tier experiences. They have delivered food, helped community groups and reorganised council services (and budgets) to meet the new situation. Sometimes, though – with so ...
Read More »Sword seized after drug detention in Whitechapel
IT BEGAN AS a simple car stop. It was mid-January, it was Whitechapel Road, E1 – and the number plate on a passing vehicle was incorrect. Officers from the Violent Crime Taskforce, out on a proactive patrol, stopped the car. ...
Read More »Mayor John Biggs and Cllr Ehtasham Haque step out together
IT IS ALWAYS GOOD to see an Executive Mayor take a first hand interest in their borough – so it was good to see John Biggs spending his Saturday morning out and about with Cllr Ehtasham Haque on the Isle ...
Read More »MPF congratulates Zara Mohammed on MCB election
THE ELECTION of Zara Mohammed as Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has been welcomed by the Muslim Professionals Forum (MPF), which sent Ms Mohammed a letter of congratulation. The MPF also issued a statement congratulating Ms ...
Read More »Hackney man sent down for sexual offences against children
HE HAD pleaded guilty last October to multiple charges of abusing children – including sexual assault on a girl and on a boy, both under ten years of age, and making and distributing indecent images of children. In January he ...
Read More »Channel S’s Mohammed Jubair wins award for curry coverage
IT TAKES FLAIR and imagination to cover the curry industry during a pandemic, as caterers respond to lockdown after lockdown – all with ever changing restriction. However, Channel S reporter Mohammed Jubair has risen to the challenge – and he ...
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