East London News

01/01/2025

🚌 The says it’s keeping travel costs down for ordinary people outside London – but is it really just shovelling more public money into profiteering private companies?

THE GOVERNMENT is blowing its trumpet today as it announces that it is keeping the cap on bus fares going. The cap, introduced by the last Government, means that travellers outside London won’t pay more than £3 for a bus journey. Simon Lightwood MP, the Minister for Local Transport, is so happy h...

31/12/2024

🔥 A disrupted life across for most of the day. Thanks to all the who brought the blaze under control.

MORE THAN 120 firefighters have spent the day tackling a massive blaze in a warehouse in New Road, Rainham. The fire was spotted at around 10.20am and was brought under control by 3pm. The warehouse is believed to be a distribution centre for steel components. The blaze engulfed the building, sendin...

31/12/2024

🤨👩‍⚕️🩺🛌 It was who broke the – with his and ’s costly deals. Is about to let repeat the mistake?

WES STREETING MP, Secretary of State for Health, has announced that the NHS is “broken” – and he has a Baldrick-style “Cunning Plan” to mend it. What Streeting hasn’t confessed is that it wasn’t the Tories who broke the NHS during their 14 years in office – it was the Blair/Brown Gov...

30/12/2024

volunteers have worked hard during #2024, raising money for projects. They’ve enjoyed the challenges, and they are happy to have helped so many people in need.

MUSLIM CHARITY Islamic Relief has produced a report to share memories of the many fundraising events which supporters have undertaken across the world over the last year. It’s also making plans for 2025. It’s an impressive list. There’s been a great deal of climbing: Mount Kilimanjaro, the Sev...

30/12/2024

🏠🏘 Research confirms that have more if their parents are .

IT SEEMS obvious: poor people don’t have the opportunities that wealthy people do when it comes to putting a roof over their heads. Now this has been confirmed by research conducted by award winning mortgage adviser Alexander Hall. Alexander Hall’s research produced statistics to prove the case....

29/12/2024

There’s a special offer on membership of the . Join before 31st January.

THERE ARE many good reasons to join the Stop the War Coalition. The last year has seen more and more wars springing up – wars between countries and wars on people. Let’s work together to stop them. To underline how important your active membership is, the STW Coalition is running a memb...

29/12/2024

A strange assault took place on a in early . Did you see it? Can you help solve this crime?

AN APPEAL has come out from the British Transport Police for witnesses to an assault on a woman travelling on a Central Line Tube to come forward. The assault took place at around 3.30pm on Monday, 2nd December. A woman was travelling from Shepherds Bush to Liverpool Street. A woman came and sat dow...

29/12/2024

has detected a interest in finding . Meanwhile is expanding opportunities for all at its centres.

HARLOW IS miles away from East London, but apparently the Harlow & District Sports Trust runs a place called the Harlow Leisurezone – and they have found time to comment on some recent research. Someone has looked into how often people do internet searches for personal trainers. Apparently there h...

29/12/2024

👩‍🦯🚗 : will shadowy campaign accept decision? Or are there different standards for different mayors?

A MAYOR will always want to implement their Manifesto – but some, it seems, will find it easier than others. For example… In 2015, Labour’s John Biggs promised that if he was elected he would give the Rich Mix Centre £850,000. The Council had given the Rich Mix a loan of £850,000 several yea...

27/12/2024

🍗🍔🍲 has nine awards, all sponsored by – and there’s only one on its shortlists! What’s going on, East London?

PULL YOUR socks up, East London! There’s a huge number of eateries – food joints of all sorts – featured on the Feed The Lion (FTL) awards shortlist, and East London is a desert, with hardly any outlets on the list. First things first: here’s the discount. The are sponsored by ...

27/12/2024

👮 He befriended a family – and then abused their child. Police are now worried: was this ’s only victim? They are calling on any others to come forward now.

HE HAS BEEN found guilty of a list of serious sexual crimes against a child, but police are now wondering whether he had committed any previous crimes. They are calling on any other victims to contact them. At Wood Green Crown Court, on 6th December, Mustafa Mehmet was convicted of ra**ng a child, c...

27/12/2024

😡 is cock-a-hoop as he announces that has more members than the . That may not win a , but it will help Farage pull UK politics to the right.

REFORM UK has more members than the Conservative Party. Their website real-time membership clock clicked over the Tory total just in time for Nigel Farage to announce it on the slow-news Boxing Day. On the face of it, this has to be good news for Farage and his attempt to “do a Trump” in the ...

26/12/2024

🏀It’s time to get off the sofa and head down to the and watch the in action against !

THE LONDON LIONS, the top basketball team based at Stratford’s Copper Box Arena, have a very short seasonal break this year. The team’s wished everyone a happy holiday season – and reminded fans that their next match is on 27th December. Energised by their roast turkey and mince pies, the team...

25/12/2024

22/12/2024

have counted the numbers receiving a in each region. Make sure you are getting this means-tested benefit if you are eligible.

OLDER RESIDENTS in Tower Hamlets have welcomed Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to offer pensioners a Winter Fuel Payment if the Government has kicked them off the national scheme. But he’s not the only one with winter fuel costs on his mind. James Longley, Managing Director of Utility B...

21/12/2024

👨‍✈️Two teen boys and a woman – but what is the story behind the that left two young men injured?

THREE PEOPLE have been arrestedicw a double shooting which took place in the early hours of Saturday, 26th October on Thorne Close, near Rogers Road, E16. Reports that there had been a shooting came in to the emergency services just before 3am. When officers from the Metropolitan Police and London A...

21/12/2024

👫🍲⚽️🎹 is committed to Tower Hamlets having the fantastic that young residents deserve. If you could be one of the people helping to realise that , apply for one of these jobs now!

“WE WANT to deliver an excellent Youth Service…” said Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukar, “so we are looking for some excellent youth workers!” As Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning, Cllr Talukdar oversees the Youth Service and its development into that stellar service ...

21/12/2024

🧀 has been ? Not much of a deal is it? Wrong: for old people, babies and pregnant women this cheese could be .

TWO companies have recalled their cheese products this week after discovering that they pose a danger to the health of anyone who might consume them. The first set of dodgy products is a range of cheeses from Dnnes Stores. There is a risk that these may be contaminated by Listeria “monocytogenes.....