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NO POLICE OFFICER will face misconduct charges as a result of events surrounding the death of Rashan Charles in Hackney last July. Charles died as police attempted to arrest him. The incident was automatically reported to the Independent Office for ...

IN AN ISLAMOPHOBIC outburst, former Foreign Secretary Tory MP Boris Johnson has made fun of the burqa. Writing in his weekly newspaper column, Johnson said that women who wear traditional Islamic garments – burqas and niqabs – look like bank ...

CONTROVERSIAL plans to redevelop Chrisp Street market could see up to 400 Muslims lose their prayer facility and be left with nowhere else to go. The problem centres on the building in Market Street which houses a Post Office (on ...

IT WAS A CASE OF “Mum’s the word!” at Tower Hamlets Cabinet on Thursday, 25th July as pro-nursery campaigners were banned from addressing the Mayor and Cabinet. Campaigners had wanted to speak to the Mayor about his controversial proposal to ...

CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...

BREAKING NEWS: Reports are coming in of an accident on Mile End Road near the junction with Southern Grove – just before Mile End Tube Station. There is no information on what happened or whether anyone has been injured. Drivers ...

THE ANTI-WAR movement across the UK was true to its word – turning out protestors in their tens of thousands to demonstrate that US President Donald Trump was not welcome in the UK. Trump hopped around Britain, avoid the protests ...

COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...

FOR JUST OVER an hour, England supporters dared to hope – as they led Croatia 1-0 in the Football World Cup semi-finals. The hope slowly crumbled away as Croatia finally equalised and then scored a second goal in extra time. ...

Are we facing another summer snap General Election? And if we are, can Corbyn win it? It had all been going so well for Prime Minister Theresa May. Last Friday, she held a Cabinet “away-day”. The elected wing of the ...