EAST London commuters look set to be hit with severe delays after workers on the Docklands Light Railway voted to strike. A majority of the 250 Rail and Maritime Transport Union members balloted voted to strike. The dispute with DLR management is over
THE innocent young Muslim man shot by police has told for the first time the trauma of the moment anti-terror police raided his house and arrested him. Mohammed Abdul Kahar told a packed media conference how he thought he was going to die when police
SCREENINGS of live World Cup matches on large outdoor screens at Canary Wharf have been banned after violence erupted during England's opening match. Violence broke out in the east London financial district on Saturday during the screening of England's
A STRUGGLING primary school is set to join forces with a successful academy in a bid to raise standards. Lewisham Council is considering taking Monson Primary School, Hunsdon Road, New Cross, out of its control, so it can be linked to Haberdashers' Aske's
TWO brothers have been charged over the murder of schoolboy Alex Mulumba. Mulumba, 15, died when he was stabbed once in the heart last Thursday after he got off a bus with two friends in Lambeth, south Lodnon. They had been out celebrating the end
A CHARITY hit by flytippers has to spend hunderds of pounds to clear up their mess. People are dumping bags of rubbish, clothes and other items in a gated alcove belonging to the Salvation Army in Jewel Road in Walthamstow, east London. Our picture
Over a thousand people are joining in the legal fight against the stinking Mogden Sewage Works in west London. The deadline for residents to register their claims against Thames Water, owners of Mogden was last Friday and specialist environmental lawyers
TWO GPs who failed to detect a rare virus that killed a mother-of-one within only two weeks were not to blame for her death, an inquest has found. Anna Maria Bristow, 39, of Marlow in Buckinghamshire, died in August last year of acute myocarditis, a
UPDATED 15.15pm: The beleaguered Met police chief Sir Ian Blair has been defended from on high amidst mounting calls for his resignation. Len Duval, chairman of Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), said the fruitless anti-terror raid in Forest Gate did
