THE RECENT MURDER of Corey Davis highlights the worryingly high level of gun and knife crime taking place in Newham over the summer. Just before Corey’s  murder, detectives from the Met Police Trident initiative made some progress in finding some ...

COMPLAINTS ABOUT drug dealing in Newham prompted police to set up Operation Duntroon in an attempt to make a major improvement to the streets. Their work has been rewarded as ten men were today given custodial sentences. Newham CID and ...

A MAN HAS today been charged with murder following the murder of a man in Manor Park. He has been named as Emil Asparuhov Hristov, 39, of Sherrard Road, London E12. He was due to appear at Thames Magistrates Court ...

PC MILADUR KHAN, 30, who was attached to the East Area Command Unit, is today beginning a six month prison sentence after admitting perverting the course of justice at a hearing on 2nd May at Southwark Crown Court. The sentence was ...

AN INNOCENT 71 year old man was proceeding down Hay Currie Street, E14, on 9th December last year – when he was robbed at knifepoint. Today, 4th April 2017, justice was on the way to being done when 39 year ...

Many eyebrows were raised when Labour’s John Biggs became mayor of Tower Hamlets but then refused to resign as a member of the London Assembly. Each position was a full-time job, and holding two full time jobs at the same ...

Emdad Rahman Hundreds of residents turned out for the Ocean & Limehouse Field Community Fun Day which took place on Saturday 5th September at Shandy Park, Stepney. The Fun Day was arranged as a way of engaging all members of ...

Lutfur Rahman, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, officially opened the new “pocket park” in Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green during a community event on Friday, 15th August. The environmentally-friendly park has transformed a local eyesore into an asset everyone can enjoy. Residents ...

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has outlined details of the London Curriculum, which puts the city itself at the heart of learning in the capital. He announced his scheme during a speech he made at the Education Reform Summit ...

BBC London radio personality Eddie Nestor hit the streets of Tower Hamlets today (Tuesday, 17th June) with Mayor Lutfur Rahman on a whistle stop tour to see the real Tower Hamlets. Eddie visited the council’s flagship regeneration schemes including Poplar ...