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    A new nursing course has been launched to help the chronic shortage of nurses in east London’s hospitals. Last year, a report by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) revealed that there were more than 1,044 vacant nursing posts at the Barts Health NHS Trust, which includes Mile End, Whipps Cross, Newham University and Royal London hospitals, and 333 at the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. It is hoped that a new three-year adult nursing degree at the University of East London will help local people to take up these jobs. Charmagne Barnes, Dean of UEL’s School of Health, Sport and Bioscience, said the programme would be important not just to the university but to the community of east London as a whole. Ms Barnes, herself a qualified nurse, said that the area was not...

    A 20-year-old man has died after being chased by police and apprehended in a shop in east London. A Metropolitan Police officer pursued the man on foot after they attempted to stop a car in Kingsland Road at 1.45am on Saturday, the force said. The man went into a shop where he was seen trying to swallow an object, Scotland Yard confirmed. A spokesman said: The man entered a shop in Kingsland Road, where he was seen to be trying to swallow an object. The officer intervened and sought to prevent the man from harming himself, but he was then taken ill. CCTV footage posted on social media under the hashtag #justiceforRash appears to show officers restraining a young man inside a shop. A spokeswoman for the Independent Police Complaints Commission confirmed the video is linked ...

    There has been a 27 per cent increase in rough sleepers across Tower Hamlets since 2013. Homelessness across the capital has doubled since 2010, with 8,768 sleeping rough in London in the past year. Tower Hamlets also finished in the top half of the 32 boroughs with an increase of 27pc placing it 15th. Topping the list was Barking and Dagenham, with a 71pc increase in rough sleepers. The borough, which has a 12pc average unemployment rate, topped the list after research by Sellhousefast.uk, which used Mayor of London figures to put neighbouring borough Havering in second place, with a 65pc increase in rough sleepers since 2013. Redbridge also made the top five, with a 62pc increase placing it in fourth place and Newham was sixth place with an increase of 49pc. With the mos...

    Thousands of pounds in cash has seized by police during a raid on the home of a suspected gang member in Tower Hamlets. Some notes were found in bubble wrap. The money, all in £50 notes, was found inside a white envelope and cocooned in bubblewrap at the address in the E14 area. Tower Hamlets Police upload images of their find on social networking site Twitter today.

 • 14 new police officers to work in a new anti-social behaviour unit with Tower Hamlets Homes • Action responds to residents' concerns on crime and drugs John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has announced funding for fourteen new police officers to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour on council estates. They will be joining Tower Hamlets Homes staff in a ground-breaking joint anti-social behaviour team – the first of its kind in the borough. The new officers will bring the total number funded by the borough up to twenty and comes in response both to resident concerns about safety and significant cuts to the UK's police budget in recent years. The announcement was made at Wednesday evening's Council meeting where the Mayor also revealed funding for additional mobile security patrols to p...