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POLICE are setting up a 75-strong task force to stop and search youths carrying knives in London after a senior officer warned the message about carrying deadly weapons was “not getting through.” The move revealed today (Friday) is part of the drive against known gang members... » MORE
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A STAR-studded campaign to preserve the future of an historic East End pub scored a victory last night when councillors turned down an application to build a block of flats next door. Campaigners including pop stars, actors and MPs won the fight to save The George Tavern in Stepney. Tower Hamlets councillors voted five-to-one to reject an application by Swan housing to demolish disused Stepney’s nightclub next to the pub... » MORE
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THE grieving parents of seven-year-old Michelle Gellard bid a tearful farewell to their daughter on Tuesday, two weeks after she drowned in a swimming pool accident. Michelle died at Blackwater Leisure centre in Essex, after being found floating face down in the water. Family and friends joined Mark Gellard and Sian Lakey and their other three children at the Docklands Settlement at Millwall, on the Isle of Dogs, for her funeral... » MORE
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WORK on the foundations of the 2012 Olympics Stadium has had to be halted because of the discovery of asbestos.
Samples of material containing the asbestos were found in the construction site at Stratford, the Olympic Delivery Authority revealed today (Wed)... » MORE
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KNIFE MESSAGE ‘IS NOT GETTING THROUGH’...
STARS’ TAVERN CAMPAIGN TOWN HALL VICTORY..
SAD FAREWELL TO POOL TRAGEDY MICHELLE...
2012 OLYMPICS HALTED BY ASBESTOS FIND...... » MORE
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A MOTHER has spoken for the first time this week of her relief that her son has been cleared of a rape conviction after he served 14 months of an eight-year sentence behind bars. Terry Bishop was found not guilty in a retrial last month. But his time ‘inside’ for as crime he’s now been cleared of had ‘crucified’ him, his mother says... » MORE
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THE Tesco supermarket giant has revealed plans to open a store on the former site of Morrisons in Bow as part of a new East London housing development. Its board of directors has agreed to move in if developers get planning permission for the site off Roman Road. But widespread opposition remains, despite Tesco’s announcement of opening a medium-sized ‘Metro’ store two years after Morrisons closed its Roman Road supermarket... » MORE
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TOP architects have lost their battle to have the controversial 1960s Robin Hood Gardens listed. It means bulldozers are one step closer to moving in to reduce the concrete housing estate next to the A12 Blackwall Tunnel entrance in London’s East End to rubble. Culture Minister Margaret Hodge has decided it does not merit listing, giving the Town Hall a green light to redevelop the Blackwall Reach area on the doorstep of Canary Wharf... » MORE
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