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- Sleighed by your kindness … Christmas Toy Appeal reaches target
- Launch of a special community appeal at the heart of our community
- Bidding to make a splash for vital Christmas appeal
- ‘Our Linda’ Lewis is honoured with a plaque to mark her journey from ‘Custom House to California’
- Wartime picture of Silvertown church
- Help Drew Primary School make music … and memories
- First hand account of Black Saturday and beyond – and memories of wartime North Woolwich and Silvertown
- Kevin Jenkins OBE Newham Christmas Toy Appeal 2023: Our Roll of Honour
- The joy YOU gave! Sleighed by your kindness as appeal reaches target
- Kindhearted bikers rev up for Toy Appeal
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Joan Littlewood sculpture plans approved by Newham Council
Newham councillors have granted planning permission for a bronze sculpture to be erected in Stratford to honour the legendary theatre director Joan Littlewood. The council’s The Strategic Development Committee have agreed that the sculpture on […]
Olympicoplois: Plans revealed for higher education and cultural hub
Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales has welcomed proposals that could see the Victoria & Albert Museum and University College London create new institutions in Newham on Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The proposed multi-million pound […]
Boy, 15, shot and stabbed in his own home in East London
Detectives have appealed for information after a 15-year-old boy was shot and stabbed in his Plaistow home by a gang of masked attackers. The incident, revealed by Scotland Yard this morning, happened shortly before 3am […]
Armstice Day commemoration in Newham unites young and older generations
It was a special honour to be at the event to mark the 95th Anniversary of The Armistice at the Central Park Cenotaph this morning. The event was held at the Cenotaph in […]
Help ensure no child loses out this Christmas
For 37 of the previous 41 years of my working life I have penned a plea to the community in East London to help with a very special appeal. This year I will write that […]
Safer transport police officer’s surprise delivery!
A police officer helped deliver a baby in Newham yesterday. Pc Robert Morgan was dealing with a vehicle, which had been stopped near a Mercedes Benz showroom in Rick Roberts Way in Stratford, when he […]
Ten-pin bowlers strike out for hospice charity
Kindhearted ten-pin bowlers have raised more than £300 for charity. Members of the The Sunday Trios ten-pin bowling league at City Pavilion, in Collier Row, Romford, held their annual new season curtain raiser … and […]