Crime

Mr Somsul Haq of Quaker Street, Shoreditch, was fined almost £2,000 at Thames Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty of illegal street trading. He had been found selling imported cigarettes in Whitechapel Market by Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers in August ...

Tower Hamlets Council is reminding retailers that all displays of tobacco products must be covered up from 6th April – Easter Monday. New legal requirements mean that all businesses must hide from public view any tobacco products they sell. There ...

A community safety surgery and walkabout was held in Bow East on 27th March to help reduce crime and anti-social behaviour (ASB). Organised by Tower Hamlets Council, it was the 14th in a series of interactive events held across the ...

Seven more restaurant bosses and a supermarket owner in North Yorkshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, Norfolk and London have been disqualified as company directors for employing illegal workers as waiters, cooks and butchers in breach of UK immigration rules. The eight directors, ...

Tower Hamlets Council’s licensing sub-committee has upheld the decision to revoke an alcohol licence for Shiraz Food and Wine on Hackney Road, E2 and has also reduced the hours in which The New Globe public house on Mile End Road, ...

Young women and girls in Tower Hamlets who have experienced sexual violence can now seek support from a new advocate based in the borough. The Nia Project has received funding from the Home Office as part of the Government’s Ending ...

Nineteen gang members have been given injunctions for a variety of offences thanks to evidence provided by Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) around Wyllen Close, E1. Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) are a uniformed council service formed in September 2009, ...

Cyclist murdered by hit and run driver Tragedy hit the East End on Monday night when a cyclist was killed as a car collided with his bicycle. Eye witnesses saw the car being driven fast and carelessly, possibly in a ...

Have you seen this man? Police want to identify and speak to him in connection with a sexual assault on a school girl on 13th May. Although this is nearly six months ago, police are appealing for the public’s help ...

Police in Barking and Dagenham are keen to identify a man who is wanted for questioning in connection with a shoplifting incident at commercial premises on Merrielands Crescent, Dagenham. The suspect entered the location on Monday, 4th August and stole a ...