Eleven people have been arrested during a series of raids targeting drug dealers

  Essex Police worked with the Metropolitan Police Service and Eastern Region Special Operations Unit, assisted by Hertfordshire Police, to execute warrants at addresses in Chelmsford, Colchester, and London this morning, Monday 1 February. Crack cocaine and heroin, and cash, with a total value of around £15,000 has been seized. Detective Chief Inspector Lewis Basford, […]

A joint operation between the Metropolitan Police and Waltham Forest Council to target venues open in defiance of Covid-19 regulations has resulted in 36 individuals being reported for fines up to £800, with two people facing a possible £10,000 penalty

  An open shutter alerted officers to a group inside a venue on Hoe Street, Walthamstow who were smoking shisha and consuming beverages on the evening of Friday 29 January.  Although the trio claimed to be waiting for a food order no evidence of this order was found and all three were reported for £200 […]

Police are appealing for witnesses to an attempted theft in Reading

At approx. 8.50pm on Thursday 28/01, the victim, a woman aged 56 years old, was walking along Erleigh Road, as she passed Reading Boys School on the right hand side of the road, she became aware of someone behind her, she turned around and saw a man. She continued walking down Erleigh Road by the Junction […]

COVID-19 Variant Testing in ME15 Area

Door-to-door coronavirus testing in the ME15 area of mid-Kent will begin on Tuesday morning (2nd Feb) after a specific variant of COVID-19 was identified. Kent County Council and its partners in the Kent Resilience Forum urge all eligible residents to play their part in this important testing programme. Government have asked for as many people […]

An all-female rowing crew who had never actually rowed on the sea – or even met – before the pandemic are asking people to put their hearts into their project and help them complete an historic Atlantic race

  The oar-some foursome, who met ‘virtually’ during the first Covid-19 lockdown, came up with the idea because ‘life is for living and adventures are there to be had.’   But more people have climbed Everest than have rowed across an ocean and this quartet not only have to learn to be a team but […]

Police name teen in fatal Islington stabbing

A murder investigation has been launched following the fatal stabbing of a teenage boy in Islington. Police were called to Holland Walk, N19, on Monday, 25 January, at approximately 5.30pm  to a report of a stabbing. Officers attended with London Ambulance Service and HEMS, and found the victim, a 15-year-old boy suffering from a stab […]