BREAKING NEWS: Police have cordoned off roads outside West Ham Tube Station following a serious road traffic accident shortly after midnight. First eyewitness reports indicate that a vehicle was speeding in the area and it then appeared that the driver ...
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St Paul’s Way murder: two local teens charged
TWO TEENAGERS have been charged with the murder of Alimuz Zaman in St Paul’s Way last Sunday, 26th May. Each teen was also charged with one count of Grievous Bodily Harm in connection with an attack on a second victim, ...
Read More »Bangladesh: 16 charged after Nusrat burned alive
NUSRAT JAHAN RAFI was just 19 when she was lured up to the roof of her Islamic school, doused with kerosene and set on fire. Now 16 people have been charged with criminal offences in connection with this murder. On ...
Read More »Alastair Campbell expelled from Labour
IS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL angling for a book deal? It’s hard to find a more plausible explanation of his behaviour on Sunday night. Campbell made his name out of being Tony Blair’s right hand man in the Labour Party, and he’s ...
Read More »Double stabbing in Tower Hamlets
TWO YOUNG MEN were stabbed this afternoon in St Paul’s Way, E3 – with one being left in a critical condition. Unconfirmed reports are circulating on social media suggesting that he has since died. •STORY UPDATE: Local police have now ...
Read More »Two years after Grenfell – new cladding risk found?
ARE THERE dangers in yet another widely used type of exterior cladding? Two years on from the Grenfell fire, safety inspectors have been looking at the potential dangers of High Pressure Laminate (HPL) cladding. The Grenfell fire shocked the world ...
Read More »Yes, it’s the end of May – what’s next?
“BE CAREFUL what you wish for” is a handy and probably ancient Chinese saying – which the Tories would do well to remember as they celebrate the end of May. For months the Tory Party has been united on one ...
Read More »Biggs keeps homes at arms length shock
HE’S TAKEN the rubbish back in-house, but not the people. That’s the shocking news to emerge from the Town Hall this week, as John Biggs pulls another of his strange stunts to convenience the Council rather than the public. A ...
Read More »Biggs enters second year rewarding loyal followers
THERE WERE NO pom-poms in sight in Mulberry Place tonight as John Biggs presented his new Advisory Cabinet to the Council – but as so many of the cheer-leaders were in the said Advisory Cabinet, there was no one left ...
Read More »Hillsborough: safety officer fined £67.70 per death
THE MAN IN charge of health and safety at the Hillsborough stadium on the day that 96 football fans died has been fined £6,500 – just under £68 per death, just over 30 years later. Graham Mackrell was the stadium ...
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