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    A gang of thieves smashed their way into a store in the early hours of the morning and took jewellery worth £1.8 million ($2.3 million), according to the Metropolitan Police. Video footage, released by Scotland Yard, shows a group of men taking an array of gold and diamonds from a shop in London, after police say they knocked a hole in the building's wall with a sledgehammer. The hole which police say three robbers squeezed through during the theft.Metropolitan Police The gang were recorded by CCTV cameras carrying out the heist at Joyalukkas, a Middle Eastern jewelry chain, in the Forest Gate area of east London. Officers for the Metropolitan Police say the robbery took place between 3 a.m. and 6.40 a.m. on July 10, a Monday. They said the men used a sledgehammer and a cr...

    • First consultation and street audit in the Weavers area. • Further events across the borough to come Residents and community groups across the borough are being encouraged to work with the council to love their neighbourhood by suggesting how areas can be made more attractive. A £3 million scheme to invest in local infrastructureto brighten and uplift neighbourhoods will start this September. The Mayor's Neighbourhood Refresh programme will be rolled out across the borough over the next three years. Beginning with the Weavers area of Bethnal Green, neighbourhoods are invited to suggest what should be done to make communities look more attractive. Improvements could include more trees and green spaces, installation of cycle parking, better lighting, street art, pleasant r...

    Jemma Beale has been described as a very convincing liar who injured herself with barbed wire to back up one of her claims. A manipulative woman who made a series of false rape and sexual assault claims has been jailed for 10 years. Jemma Beale was branded a very convincing liar as she was sentenced for four counts of perjury and four counts of perverting the course of justice. The 25-year-old from Bedfont in west London had claimed she was gang raped by nine male strangers and sexually assaulted by six men in four different encounters over a three-year period. But Beale invented the chilling claims often drunkenly to make her girlfriend jealous, Southwark Crown Court heard. In July 2012, she even injured herself to back up a claim that she had been assaulted with barbed w...

Sirajul Islam, deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets today met pupils from Central Foundation School for Girls to congratulate them on their GCSEs results and extended his best wishes to all students in Tower Hamlets receiving their results. Sirajul Islam said: "Today is about all about our young people who have worked so hard for the last few years to achieve their grades and I congratulate all of them. "As before, there are some outstanding results at individual schools across the borough with students who are a real credit to their school and their families. "Many of students are achieving these excellent results despite their families facing difficult circumstances and tough living standards. It's a real testament to the determination and resolve of parents to ensure that their children receiv...