East London News

15/02/2025

🏀 Looking for a novel way to finish the ? Head for East London’s and a Lions’ extravaganza!

BASKETBALL superheroes the London Lions offer you the perfect way to bring Valentine’s weekend to a great conclusion. Tickets for the London Lions’ game against the Caledonia Gladiators on Sunday, 16th February at the Copper Box Arena are still available. The high-energy game will be supported b...

15/02/2025

🍕 Another product recall: this time from . Their ’s Thin could be a killer.

Birds Eye Ltd has recalled Goodfella’s Stonebaked Thin Garlic Bread because it contains milk, but milk has not been listed on the ingredients. The error arose because a batch of garlic bread was confused, during the packing stage, with another garlic break which contains cheese. Contamination may ...

15/02/2025

, 2024. It was a . It was in his . It looked like a garden shed. But it was a gun conversion factory and he was churning out lethal weapons.

AS A NATIONAL amnesty tries to take converted top venting blank fi****ms off the streets, a reminder comes from Dagenham about how easy it is to convert the guns into even more lethal weapons. Luke Parr, 23, of Maxey Road, Dagenham, appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court, where he pleaded guilty to two...

14/02/2025

🚆 A small investment of time could put you in the running to win a free rail journey. Click here for the details. Rail

THREE railway companies have joined forces to run a competition for the second year running. This year they are celebrating “Railway 200”, which marks 200 years of the modern railway. The companies Southern Rail, Thameslink and Great Northern have each chosen a team of their own employees, who w...

13/02/2025

👮 can kill. And they do. Hand yours in during the this and help keep the streets safe.

GUNS ARE NOT cool. They are dangerous. They hurt people and often kill them. They don’t stop violence – the escalate it. Produce a gun you carry “to defend myself” and the only way to stop you is a bullet. The only way to stop gun violence is to get the guns off the streets. ...

09/02/2025

🥃 has recalled some of its drinks because they contain levels of that could be harmful to some consumers. Click here to see which drinks are affected.

A SMALL number of drinks produced by Coca Cola Europacific Partners have been recalled because they contain higher levels of the chemical chlorate than usual. The risk is low – especially to those who only consume these drinks occasionally. However, people who are sensitive to chlorate, especially...

09/02/2025

👨‍✈️ It wasn’t a good night out for two hapless would-be burglars. They walked off with empty cash registers – in full view of the , who had been summonsed by . Oops.

IT WAS a text book case in hownot to rob a restaurant. And now two men have been found guilty of burgling a Camden eatery in a story which could be the basis of a “Carry On Burgling” film. The duo’s first mistake was to target a restaurant which was covered by Camden Council’s CCTV. ...

09/02/2025

⛏ has asked its Pensions Committee to consider taking its investments out of the arms industry and its work of mass murder.

IT WAS unprecedented. Tower Hamlets Councillors united, almost to a person, to stop the Council’s pension fund investing in companies involved in the arms trade. The Council and its employees both contribute a small sum to a pension fund each month. These sums are invested and then used to pay the...

05/02/2025

Play For G*aza – Sports for Solidarity ⤵️

05/02/2025

Play For G*aza – Sports for Solidarity

A live talk show with representatives from leading sports and community organisations, exploring how sport can bring people together and support those in need.

01/02/2025

🍬🥛 can kill. Here’s a warning that there is milk in some packs of Sultans Chocolate Covered Turkish Delight – but it’s not declared on the label. Take it seriously.

TURKISH DELIGHT is a popular Christmas-time treat – but if you have any supplies left over, check them now, as some have been recalled. The sweets in question are from the Sultans Turkish Delights brand, made by TJX Europe. The recall comes because some of the products contain milk, but this ingre...

31/01/2025

spoke to the January meeting of the and explained how he is supporting in the community. How was ’s going to respond to that?

AN EXECUTIVE MAYOR is accountable to the public who elected them, rather than to the Council. Nonetheless, the Mayor is alloted six minutes every meeting to address the Council. That’s about half an hour a year, or two hours each term of office. The Councillors have to savour the moment. They are ...

31/01/2025

🤱 It’s a which has baffled the police since 2017. Three babies, whose DNA shows they are related, have been abandoned, as newborns, in . are offering a reward in the search to find their mum.

ONE YEAR AGO police in East London recevied a report from a member of the public who said that they had found a new-born baby, wrapped in a towel, in a shopping bag near the junction of Grenway and High Street South, Newham, E6. The baby was taken to hospital, where she was found to ...

29/01/2025

👩‍🎓👫 have been designated by . As children celebrated with a song at Council, opposition tried to re-write history.

AT LAST! Tower Hamlets Council’s Children’s Services has been awarded an “outstanding” rating, following an inspection by Ofsted at the end of last year. And Labour stalwarts tried to claim the credit. The Council meeting on 22nd January began with a report from the Speaker. As he finished h...

26/01/2025

👮🐕‍🦺 finds police officers did nothing wrong in incident which saw two in in May 2023.

A PICTURE of two police officers shooting two dogs by the canal in Limehouse shocked the public when it circulated on social media back in May 2023. There were calls for action to be taken against the officers. The Metropolitan Police referred the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduc...

25/01/2025

started off in good spirits, with in celebration of an report and in celebration of the life of former Councillor .

THERE WAS a `businesslike start to the January meeting of Tower Hamlets Council on what was a cold winter’s night. Inside the Chamber, all was somber, with almost everyone dressed in dark colours. Only the Speaker introduced a splash of colour, with his red robes. His garb made it all the easier t...

21/01/2025

Trump ends birthright citizenship, ending the policy anyone born in U.S. automatically receives a U.S. passport. ⤵️

21/01/2025

Donald Trump signs executive orders in front of a cheering crowd at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC.