An important part of London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics – and certainly one of the main arguments used to sell the bid to Londoners – was that we would all get a legacy from the public spending on ...
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Biggs to wait a year to see if Council faces charges
The inquest into the death of Alexia Walenkaki began today, 11th April – and was immediately adjourned until 16th January 2017. The last minute delay came because police needed more time to obtain expert evidence – and to follow up ...
Read More »US primaries: has Trump run out of gas?
Donald Trump’s race for the White House has suffered a setback, with rival candidate Ted Cruz winning the primary contest in the mid-western state of Wisconsin. Trump remains in the lead of the contest to be selected as the Republican ...
Read More »Are Kippers going up in smoke?
The United Kingdom Independence Party – UKIP – should be in their element. The party founded to campaign for the UK to leave the European Union (EU) has succeeded in winning a referendum. Now all they need to do is ...
Read More »Muslims and non Muslims unite for community peace vigil Respects paid for Istanbul and Brussels
Emdad Rahman In light of the atrocities committed in Istanbul and Belgium, Citizens UK, Darul Ummah, St Georges in the East and St Mary’s Cable Street joined other community groups and individuals to hold a peace vigil. The short service, ...
Read More »Mayor Lutfur Rahman: again, no case to answer
Hidden away among the news on Budget day was a Metropolitan Police announcement: that there will be no criminal prosecutions arsing out of the Judgement in the Election Court issued in April 2015. Though this was always the most likely ...
Read More »Berlin bomb: police considering “crime gang” motive
Police investigating the cause of the Berlin Bomb on Tuesday morning now believe that the bomb may have been intended to assassinate the driver as part of an organised crime feud. The fear that the driver was a suicide bomber ...
Read More »Breaking news: Berlin bomb blast kills driver
Reports are coming in of an explosion taking place in the German capital, Berlin. Early reports from police say that the car was driving along a street in the wealthy Charlottenburg district of Berlin when it exploded. The force of ...
Read More »Osborne Budget: a bribe for Middle England?
Osborne warned us, in effect, that this week’s budget will be a shocker when he announced earlier this week that he is aiming to cut public spending by half by 2020. He thought cuts on this scale would be necessary ...
Read More »Biggs absent as Britain First arrive at ELM
Questions were being asked on Sunday as John “two jobs” Biggs displayed a very relaxed attitude to the second Britain First demonstration outside the East London Mosque in a fortnight. It was around 1.15pm on Sunday that just over a ...
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