Terry Kirby, managing editor, Eastlondonlines Archive

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers

Eastlondonlines is now taking a break over Christmas and we will return early in the New Year. We would like …

by Terry Kirby/ December 21, 2018/ Christmas, Lead Stories, Specials/

CPS to review decision to drop charges against Bahar Mustafa over #killallwhitemen controversy

A decision to drop charges against Bahar Mustafa, the Goldsmiths Students Union diversity officer who was due to appear in …

by Terry Kirby/ November 3, 2015/ Lead Stories/

ELL goes to Delhi: Using Whatsapp to protect women

This week the team behind Eastlondlines has been working with journalism students at Jamia Millia Ismalia University in Delhi to …

by Terry Kirby/ April 24, 2015/ Features/

ELL goes to Delhi: stories from the Indian capital

This week the team behind Eastlondlines has been working with journalism students at Jamia Millia Ismalia University in Delhi to …

by Terry Kirby/ April 23, 2015/ Features/

Pick of the Line July 6 to 12: future television and free dance

Until July 7 ‘The Future of Television Showcase’, Goldsmiths Films from this year’s Goldsmiths MA Television Journalism students on display …

by Terry Kirby/ July 6, 2012/ Uncategorized, Upcoming, What's On This Week/

Sugar backs Croydon beauty entrepreneur

Lord Alan Sugar has given financial backing to a former Apprentice contestant a year after she finished runner-up in the …

by Terry Kirby/ July 2, 2012/ Croydon/

Record six year sentence for Hackney rioter

  A man has been jailed for over six years for his involvement in last summer’s riots in Hackney – …

by Terry Kirby/ June 12, 2012/ Crime, Hackney/

Mayor warns of ‘painful decisions’ on council cuts

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

by Terry Kirby/ August 20, 2011/ Tower Hamlets/

Courts hear more cases of stone throwing and looting as East End meeting debates riot causes

A teenager whose aunt is a police officer was among a large group of youths who pelted police with stones …

by Terry Kirby/ August 17, 2011/ Lead Stories, Uncategorized/

Teenager, 17, murdered ‘during gang fight’

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

by Terry Kirby/ August 16, 2011/ Croydon/

Two men arrested over Croydon murder as communities band together in riots aftermath

Two men have been arrested in connection with the murder of a man who died during the riots in Croydon …

by Terry Kirby/ August 12, 2011/ Lead Stories/

Looters destroy Lewisham MP’s office

Lewisham East MP Heidi Alexander cut short her holiday in the United States to return home in the wake of …

by Terry Kirby/ August 12, 2011/ Lewisham/

Timeline of events

Courtesy of the Press Association, here is a timeline of  the main events over the past few days. AUGUST 4 …

by Terry Kirby/ August 9, 2011/ Uncategorized/

Vicar arrested in ‘sham marriages’ inquiry

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

by Terry Kirby/ August 6, 2011/ Croydon/

Twenty-three arrested in dawn raids as police tackle drug dealing and firearms crime in Hackney

More than 20 people were arrested in dawn raids in east London today in a landmark operation tackling Hackney-based gangs …

by Terry Kirby/ August 3, 2011/ Lead Stories/

Shot man took bus to hospital, court told

A man who had been shot in the head in a dispute with a Croydon man flagged down a bus …

by Terry Kirby/ August 2, 2011/ Croydon/

Pensioner, 77, robbed of money for wife’s funeral

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

by Terry Kirby/ July 19, 2011/ Crime, Tower Hamlets, Uncategorized/

Two charged over Croydon PC shooting

Two men were remanded in custody on Monday after appearing in court over the shooting of a policeman in Croydon.

by Terry Kirby/ July 16, 2011/ Croydon, Uncategorized/

Schools and job centres closed as teachers and public sector workers go on strike over pensions

Dozens of schools and many public sector offices including job centres across the East London Lines boroughs were closed or …

by Terry Kirby/ July 1, 2011/ Education, Employment, Lead Stories, Society/

Man gets 18 years for hit and run murder outside Ministry of Sound

A Croydon man has been jailed for life for murdering another man by driving his car at him outside the …

by Terry Kirby/ August 17, 2010/ Crime, Croydon/