Day: July 7, 2017

    Theresa May dismisses talk of leadership challenge and insists she will be PM for at least another year. Theresa May has brushed off talk of a leadership challenge over the summer, saying she still expects to be Prime Minister for at least another year. Attending the G20 summit in Hamburg, Mrs May was asked whether other world leaders are convinced she will still be there in a year or two’s time. Mrs May replied: Yes. We will be playing our absolutely full part and I’ll be playing my full part and the issues that we are discussing are important. It comes after the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said earlier this week that Mrs May wanted to stay in post for her full five year term. Until now, Mrs May’s position on her future has been that she will serve as leader for a...

    The seven people who died during the Aldgate station bombing 12 years ago were remembered during a commemoration event this morning. The victims were among 52 killed and more than 700 injured in a terrorist attack on London’s transport network on July 7, 2005, with other bombs detonated on Tubes near Edgware Road and Russell Square, and on a bus in Tavistock Square. Flowers were laid at a memorial in Aldgate station and a minute’s silence observed. Volunteers from the Heart 2 Heart organisation also handed out flowers to commuters. Shaikh Selina Begum, who led the memorial event, said: “For us this is about mending and uniting hearts. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan lays flowers during a service for the 12th anniversary of the 7/7 attack The attacks on London 12 years ago were ...

    A man suffered a terrifying attack when his car window was smashed by a knifeman in Cuba Street. The bizarre assault took place on Wednesday at 9pm in the Isle of Dogs. The driver and his passenger, both 20-year-old men, were sat in their parked car next to a building site and the Bright Horizons Heron Quays day nursery when three men on bikes rode up. One smashed the car window and lunged through it wielding a large knife, which can clearly been seen in the video above. The masked thug tried to stab the passenger, and cut his hand and arm. The other occupant scratched his arm as he fled the car. Their injuries are not life-threatening or life-changing. Police have made no arrests, and enquiries continue.

    Bomb threat letters received by mosques in east London are being investigated by counter-terror police. Handwritten notes have been received by the Forest Gate mosque, as well as the Coventry Cross mosque in Bromley-by-Bow and Shacklewell Lane mosque in Dalston. Pictures of the letters, which have been posted online by campaign group Documenting Opperssion Against Muslims (DOAM), show similar handwriting and suggest they have been written by the same person. Those sent to the Coventry Cross and Shacklewell Lane mosques state that the writer will be visiting or coming to your mosque, while the Forest Gate letter is more explicit, saying an explosive device would be left there. A spokeswoman for the north east counter terrorism unit confirmed that the police received a numbe...

I am aware of the increased levels of fear within our community in relation to reporting of recent acid based crimes in Tower Hamlets and across London.. Police are investigating crimes that have occurred recently across East London involving the use of corrosive substances during the commission of the offence. At this stage, there is nothing to suggest that these incidents are linked. One of the offences, which took place in Newham on 21 June, is being treated as a hate crime and strenuous efforts continue to locate and arrest the suspect. This is only the second report in the last 12 months within the whole of London of such an incident having a hate crime link. In 2016 there were 455 offences recorded where a corrosive/acid substance was used across London, this year to date there have ...