The decline in house building completions is creating a “shocking housing crisis” according to the homeless charity Shelter. East London Line boroughs are bearing the brunt of these trends. The number of houses built in the first quarter of 2010 is 6 per cent down on the previous year.

A 16 year old youth from east London has been convicted of murdering 18 year old Salum Kombo

An Old Bailey judge has sentenced three men from Thornton Heath to jail terms of nine years

An eighteen-year-old youth from Tower Hamlets lost his life in a fatal stabbing because of a perceived loss of face and petty dispute on the social networking site Facebook, the Old Bailey heard this week.

Tower Hamlets is to have a directly elected executive Mayor with the first election for the post in October this year. Labour also held control of the council as a result of the local elections held on the same day as the General Election.