Under the Executive Mayor system, councillors have little formal power in the Council. The Executive Mayor takes almost all the decisions. However, councillors are able to lobby the Mayor, and the Executive Mayor is more likely to listen to them ...

A MAN in his twenties has been arrested on suspicion of robbery.  The arrest follows the police releasing a CCTV image of a man they wished to speak to in connection with a robbery in Dalston shopping centre and appealing ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

AN ATTACK labelled “appalling and completely unprovoked” has left police trying to locate Daniel Weston, 39, who is believed to live in Dagenham. Police were called out at round 8.30pm on 21st May to an address in Farmway, Dagenham by ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

NICE IS A canned wine with a difference. The new company was originally formed to supply wine in recyclable cans – ideal for festivals, where the traditional glass wine bottles are too much of a hazard but plastic is unthinkable. ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public for help as they investigate the death of a man at a residential address in Cross Road, Chadwell Heath.  He has been named as Melvin Trotman, 37, from Sheffield. Police were called out to ...

POP MUSIC was once so new and daring: it’s shocking to think that it’s over 50 years old. Some standards have been around for over half a century… What, then, were we listening to 50 years ago? It was an ...

TWO MEN suffered serious injuries when the car in which they were travelling collided with Cyprus Roundabout on Royal Albert Way, E6. The incident occurred at approximately 9.50pm on 25th May. The injured men, both in their twenties, were both ...

WHAT IS Boris up to now? He announced last week that the Department for International Development (DFID) is to be swallowed up in a mgerger with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Boris was supposed to be spending the week ...