In east London, the best jobs aren’t going to local people. A new school aims to solve that.

Cyrena Barned had just returned to London after teaching ESL in South Korea for a year, and was looking forward to catching up with family and friends. After a joyous Christmas reunion with her family, she wasn’t expecting her time with her younger brother Aarron, to be tragically and brutality cut short in the early [...]

The Met Police will be holding it’s  ‘Exchanging Places’ event for cyclists, on Monday 16 January, on the eastbound slip road to the roundabout close to M’scDonalds, between 7am and 10am. The event aims to reduce collisions between cyclists and HGVs.  Cyclists will be given the chance to sit in the driver’s seat of a [...]

  Police are appealing for information and witnesses after three linked knife point robberies took place on Thursday 12 January, between 9:30 pm and 10:00 pm in Ashenden Road, E5 and Glyn Road, E5. On all three occasions, the robbers targeted lone females forcing them to hand over their hand bags containing bank cards and [...]

Detectives investigating the murder of Aarron McKoy, 22, in Clerkenwell on New Year’s Day,  have charged a second man with his murder. Jack Nichols 20, of Wickford Essex, was arrested at mid-day on Wednesday 11 January in Wickford and was taken in to custody at an East London police station. He appeared at Thames Magistrates’ [...]

The long awaited opening of Hackney’s new library is almost over. When The Dalston CLR James library opens its doors on 23 January, not only will it be the first new Council library to be built in Hackney in over 20 years, it will be one of the largest public libraries in the UK.   [...]

  Police say officers monitoring CCTV camera in Clapton last night, noticed 3 suspicious males loitering on bikes. At 11:30 pm a patrol car was despatched to the area.  Shots were fired towards the patrol car on Mandeville Street and the 3 males  made off over a nearby foot bridge. The car was not hit [...]

Encouraging cyclists to safe cycling this winter, Hackney Council have co-ordinated an event, hosted by the Council’s Streetscene Team, in partnership with the Metropolitan Police. Cyclists can ride in and get a free, on-the-spot bike health check and free bike marking. They can also exchange places with an HGV driver to help them understand how [...]

  Police in Hackney raided an underground car park on Crondall Street in Hoxton and found 270 kilos of Cannabis with  street value of  £1 million.   Yesterday (Monday 9) plain clothes officers entered the underground car prk after a tip off from “a concerned member of public” and as a result of enquiries, a [...]

Was what Abbott said smart or appropriate? Is Twitter a sensible medium for elected public officials to use when expressing complex thoughts? Not very