MYSTERY SURROUNDS a street fight which broke out in Ilford late on Thursday night, 30th July, among a crowd of people who had been attending an Eid celebration. Despite calls on the public to celebrate the festival at home, at ...

TOWER BRIDGE, 10pm, Saturday, 1st August. It’s an unexceptional Saturday night in lockdown-eased London: people going home, people going out; traffic at a crawl – and a crowd of Algerian football fans celebrating their heads off. It’s hard to piece ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS: what are they like? The hot topic in the Borough is the decision of Executive Mayor John Biggs to impose new contracts (“Tower Rewards”) on the Council workforce.  Do Labour Councillors back him or not? Ten councillors ...

IT TOOK TEN YEARS, but persistence on the part of the Metropolitan Police has finally seen Aman Vyas convicted on three counts of rape and one count of rape and murder – crimes committed in Walthamstow between March and May ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS: what are they like? The hot topic in the Borough is the decision of Executive Mayor John Biggs to impose new contracts (“Tower Rewards”) on the Council workforce.  Do Labour Councillors back him or not? Ten councillors ...

A LARGE INJECTION of fresh fruit and veg is going into the charitable food donation sector, thanks to co-operation between two organisations which both try to redefine how we look at and deal with food resources. StreetBox is the work ...

THERE WAS NO let up for the volunteers organised by the Island Network as they rounded off July with visits to a local care home and the local Salvation Army. Maium Miah, Chair of the Island Network, said, “Our local ...

THE SUTTON ARMS pub in Station Lane, Hornchurch, was the scene of an altercation last Friday night, 24th July. Police were called out at just after 11pm. When police arrived at the pub, they found that those involved in the ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS: what are they like? The hot topic in the Borough is the decision of Executive Mayor John Biggs to impose new contracts (“Tower Rewards”) on the Council workforce.  Do Labour Councillors back him or not? Ten councillors ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCILLORS: what are they like? The hot topic in the Borough is the decision of Executive Mayor John Biggs to impose new contracts (“Tower Rewards”) on the Council workforce.  Do Labour Councillors back him or not? Ten councillors ...