JOHN BIGGS has displayed the consistency of Boris Johnson explaining the relaxation of lockdown rules as he presides over the first boroughwide strike of Tower Hamlets Council workers in living memory.   All we need is for Matt Lucas to ...

Emdad Rahman WORLD CUP WINNER and former Republic of Ireland football manager Jack Charlton has died at the age of 85. The Leeds United legend spent his entire 21 year playing career at Elland Road as part of the 1969 ...

WHAT’S THE COST of a wrap of drugs? It’s not just the money the purchaser hands over to the dealer. That’s the point the Metropolitan Police are making in a new short film brought out to help young people understand ...

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 MAN FROM Redbridge has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of making indecent images of children, after admitting downloading 200 images from the internet. It was a repeat offence for Martin Sparks, 47, of Maldon Walk, Redbridge. He was already ...

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 ...

REPORTS ARE coming in that one person has been found dead at the scene of the crane collapse in Gale Street. ●Read more about this story: Crane collapse in E3 causes injury and disruption Crane crashes into Bow flats and ...

A TALL CRANE has collapsed in Gale Street, London E3 – just north of the Limehouse Cut, near Watts Grove. The London Fire Brigade has reported that the crane was 20 metres tall.  It was on a building site in ...

A CRANE LOCATED on a building site in Gale Street, Tower Hamlets, E3, has toppled over onto a block of flats and two houses in Compton Close.  There are reports of injuries and the Fire Brigade is carrying out a ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we have been recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May or which seem relevant to it. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and ...