HACKNEY’S MAYOR Philip Glanville took a step forward in tackling the borough’s 13,000-strong housing waiting list last week – as the Planning Committee approved plans to build new homes in Clapton. It’s a small development of just eleven homes, but ...

Emdad Rahman To continue to promote healthy living and sports in the community, the Leftley Sports Club Team was invited to attend the Barking Abbey School community fair.  The event took place within the school fields, and attendees included students, ...

THE SEVEN men and women arrested in the major anti-drugs operation on 12th June have been charged with related offences. Six of the seven appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court the day after the arrests and were remanded in custody, to ...

A MAN HAS BEEN charged in connection with the murder investigation in Dagenham which began after Gitana Matukeviciene, 50, died in suspicious circumstances. It is being conducted by local officers from the East Area Command Unit and the Metropolitan Police ...

POLICE LAUNCHED a number of raids last week aimed at cracking a “county line” drug supply line suspected of having ferried illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine from East London out to Essex and Suffolk. Five of the raids were on ...

A YOUNG MAN from Dagenham has been sentenced to 18 weeks in prison after committing a string of offences in connection with the theft of a scooter. Appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Abderrahman Hassan, 20, of Reede Gardens, Dagenham, admitted: ...

A DAGENHAM WOMAN stole over £10,000 from a vulnerable man who thought she was helping him through the kindness of her heart. The money was taken in a series of calculating cons – but the guilty woman saved her best ...

SO MANY TIMES a story about a knife concerns the harm it has done to a victim in the course of a stabbing incident. News has now come in about a knife that was captured over the weekend: its stabbing days ...

IS YOUR EUCALYPTUS about to explode? Or on the point of poisoning some four-legged friends? This month’s Voice, newsletter of the East London Garden Society (ELGS), warns the tree could pack a bigger punch than you might expect. Not many ...

A PIZZA TAKEAWAY outlet in Brentwood Road, Romford, was robbed by four men armed with knives on Wednesday, 14th March. The incident occurred around midnight. Police believe that three of the suspects entered the shop while one remained outside as ...