HE KEPT a gun, wrapped in plastic bags and stuffed inside a gift bag, under his bed. Acting on intelligence, police came to his home in Bethnal Green, found the gun – and nine days later he was arrested and ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, ‘Jesus! This cup is expensive!’” Conan O’Brien, US broadcaster ●Read more about it: Thought for today ...

THE ISLAND NETWORK is stepping in to ensure that children abandoned by the Government will not go hungry this half term. The Network will be distributing food on the Isle of Dogs to children in need this week – the ...

A MAN WILL appear in Court next week after police stopped a vehicle travelling along the M25 as it passed through Enfield. The stop took place on 1st October. The man arrested has been named as Sam Migliorini, 31, of ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.” Eppie Lederer, 1918-2002, US columnist, writing the Ann Landers column ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

TWO SEXUAL ASSAULTS on young women in Dagenham’s Central Park took place on different occasions – but police believe they may well have been committed by the same man. •Attack 1 The first attack occurred at around 11.30am on Monday, ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! I carry a knife now because I read in a white magazine that all black people carry knives. So I rushed out and bought me one.” Redd Foxx, 1922-1991, US comedian and actor ●Read ...

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.”– Ashleigh Brilliant ●Read more about it: Thought for today The Thames Today

IT’S  AUTUMN. Let’s cheer ourselves up! “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” Bill Watterson, US cartoonist, author of Calvin and Hobbes ●Read more about it: Thought ...

Emdad Rahman FOOD POVERTY within the UK is a rising crisis, with one in five people now struggling to put food on the table. One and a half million Britons have reported not eating for a whole day because they have ...