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COURT ACTION taken by a group of traders has forced Mayor John Biggs’s Administration to back down and withdraw the Late Night Levy until proper consultation has taken place. The problem began in January this year, when a meeting of ...

“OH NO – not a second one.” That was the immediate reaction of thousands of East Enders on hearing that another little boy has died at school after suffering an allergic reaction to dairy food. It was bad enough that ...

Emdad Rahman A SMALL commemoration event at Aldgate station involving members of the general community remembered the innocent lives lost on 7/7, when 52 people were tragically taken. Today is twelve years since London was temporarily bought to a standstill ...

AS DAWN BROKE this morning a fire broke out in a third/fourth floor maisonette in St Paul’s Way. Within hours, a 17 year old girl had died. The Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service received an emergency call around 6am ...

THE RISING SMOKE could be seen across East London this afternoon, raising fears that history was repeating itself and another high rise building was on fire. Fortunately, it quickly transpired that although a tall block of flats was indeed ablaze, ...

FOLLOWING A public inquiry into the Hillsborough disaster, it has been revealed that six police officers are to be prosecuted. •Most significantly, David Duckenfield, who was a Chief Superintendent at the time and was in charge of police operations on ...

COUNCILLOR MAIUM MIAH is in the news again as he once more issues a call for the safety of his Canary Wharf Ward constituents to be taken seriously. The Councillor has launched a public petition calling for the Council to ...

A FIRE BROKE OUT late on Sunday night in a flat in a block on Cassilis Road – in the Canary Wharf Ward on the Isle of Dogs. Ward Councillor Maium Miah (Independent) was immediately on the scene. Cllr Miah immediately ...

DARREN OSBORNE has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. The 47 year old, who is from Cardiff, drove a hired van into a crowd of Muslims who had just left prayers at Mosque early on Monday morning. The ...

MINISTER Theresa May has admitted in the House of Commons that tests on tower blocks since the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed that some of them have cladding which is “combustible”. The PM did not reveal details of which blocks ...