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    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...

    Queen Elizabeth’s favourite song is truly fitting for a queen. The British monarch has reportedly revealed the song that gets her groove going on. According to TV and radio British presenter Chris Evans, the Queen had revealed to her dinner guests at the Windsor Castle the one song that befittingly described herself. Evans friend was apparently one of the hundreds of guests at the occasion, and so the friend heard what the monarch said. After the dinner and speeches, the dance floor opened and disco music was played. The music was proper disco with proper music, proper disco music, which what the Queen apparently wanted. Evans, who narrated the true story on The Monsters and the Critics, said the Queen did not only stick around, she also joined the dancing when she heard A...

    GPs worried about plans to streamline NHS functions with social care to save £500 million across east London have won Tower Hamlets Council support. Dr Jacki Appleby addresses Tower Hamlets Council over proposals to streamline NHS with social services. A delegation handed a petition to the town hall over fears that the North East London Sustainability and Transformation plan would cut services in deprived areas in eight boroughs. They urged the council to join neighbouring Hackney and Waltham Forest in refusing to sign up to the government proposals. I was alarmed to see responsibility for saving NHS money put on patients, Dr Jacki Appleby told councillors. The onus is being put on patients to give up smoking and to lose weight, but people in deprived areas have the least ...

    After years of campaigning, the BBC was this week finally forced to reveal the on air talent who make more than the Prime Minister. Yet while Theresa May’s salary of £150,402 a year was left in the dust by some of the stars named on the £100m rich list, a fresh analysis of Downing Street expenses reveals a somewhat different story. From a swish central London pad and a lavish country pile, to fully-expensed trips abroad and a very generous retirement plan, here are some of the PM’s top perks. 1. The plush Downing Street pad - £130,000 a year Theresa May has a flat in Downing Street, worth thousands in rental value Theresa May has full use of a flat ‘above the shop’ in Downing Street, SW1. As has become tradition, May has followed her predecessors in living at Number 11, in...

    East London is the hotspot for acid attacks and nearly a third of victims are Asian, a senior officer has said today. This squash bottle was found to contain a noxious substance. Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Craig Mackey also said officers were looking at potential links between London gangs and a recent spike in acid attacks but cautioned that the evidence was limited. He told the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee there were 455 acid offences recorded in London last year, with 63 per cent being assaults. He said 23pc were related to robberies and the rest were criminal damage, while the majority of victims were aged between 15 and 29 and nearly a third were Asian. About 80pc of the victims and about 82pc of the suspects are male so it’s a predominantly...

    A five-year-old girl selling lemonade to revellers heading to a festival in east London had her stand shut down by council officers who slapped her father with a £150 fine. Andre Spicer said his daughter burst into tears and told him I’ve done a bad thing after enforcement officers read out a lengthy legal letter before issuing him the notice. The five-year-old and Mr Spicer, a professor at City University, were given the fine for trading without a permit after they set up the make-shift stall near their home in Mile End. After it was contacted by the Standard, Tower Hamlets Council promised to cancel the fine immediately and said it would contact the family to apologise. A spokesman for the council said it expected its enforcement officers to show common sense when using ...