Residents of Tower Hamlets have been warned that they face ‘painful’ decisions over which local authority services will face the axe.

A teenager whose aunt is a police officer was among a large group of youths who pelted police with stones during rioting in Hackney last week, it was claimed in court.

A Croydon teenager was murdered during what is believed to be a clash between two rival gangs in Ilford.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man who died during the riots in Croydon on Monday. Meanwhile, as debate into the causes of the riots continued both locally and nationally, communities were banding together to try come to terms with the dramatic events, shopkeepers and business were counting the [...]

Lewisham East MP Heidi Alexander cut short her holiday in the United States to return home in the wake of Monday’s disturbances in the borough, during which rioters trashed her constituency office.

Courtesy of the Press Association, here is a timeline of  the main events over the past few days. AUGUST 4 :: Police shoot dead Mark Duggan, 29, in Ferry Lane, Tottenham. Officers had stopped his taxi to carry out an arrest as part of a pre-planned operation, according to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.   [...]

A Croydon vicar has been arrested on suspicion of conducting sham marriages, it has been disclosed.

More than 20 people were arrested in dawn raids in east London today in a landmark operation tackling Hackney-based gangs involved in drug dealing and armed crime.

A man who had been shot in the head in a dispute with a Croydon man flagged down a bus which took him to hospital, the Old Bailey told.

A couple robbed a Tower Hamlets pensioner of cash intended to pay for his late wife’s funeral, Scotland Yard have disclosed.