The Local Newspaper

A MOTORCYCLE being ridden illegally in Beam Valley Country Park was seized by police. To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. Bottom of Form It was confiscated under Operation Reclaim by Sgt James Browning of the Safer Parks team.

BURGLARY in Barking and Dagenham has seen a huge rise in the past year, recent crime figures reveal. There were 2,431 reported burglaries up to March 2010 – an increase of 369 on the same period last year. But borough commander Chief Supt Matt Bell said

AN UNINSURED drunk driver who killed two bright young students when he lost control and smashed into a house, has been jailed for eight years. Aloice Mburu, 24, was giving 19-year-old Tabitha Njenga and Perpetual Muchemi, 21, a lift home from a nightclub

FAMILIES could be living in new homes this summer after contractors were chosen to build the borough s first council houses in more than 25 years. Mansell Partnership Housing will construct 31 three and four bedroom houses on the former Lintons site, Bar

A £26MILLION bus route linking Barking and Dagenham Docks every six minutes has begun and is expected to ferry six million passengers a year. The new East London Transit (ELT) will also act as a catalyst to woo the first families to the 10,000-home, £1.

COUNCIL tax will be frozen for the second year in a row but many residents will face a hike in rent, fees and charges. There will be an annual rise in tenant service charges of £10.92, heating and hot water will increase by £63.22 a year and garage rent w

MADE in Dagenham, the star-studded film being made of the Ford factory women s fight for equal pay, will be released in cinemas on October 1. Paramount Pictures UK made the announcement last week. The comedy-drama, which went under the working title of We

THE Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, has caved in to public demands and scrapped plans for a 1,500-inmate prison in Dagenham. There was a public outcry in April when proposals for the category B jail to be built at Beam Park West were announced. Labour MP f

TOWN HALL chiefs are demanding the government review its legislation after the appalling state of the borough s council housing was highlighted on national television. In Tower Block of Commons, being aired on Channel 4 on Mondays, Liberal Democrat MP Mar

ALCOHOL-fuelled fights and drunken accidents are responsible for thousands of hospital admissions each year with Barking and Dagenham having a higher number than most other boroughs. Findings published last week by the London Drink Debate suggest that alc

A DESPERATE mother who injected her severely brain-damaged son with a fatal dose of heroin in a mercy killing , was jailed for life and told she must serve a minimum of nine years, after being found guilty of murder today (Wed). Frances Anne Inglis, 57

THE £6million revamp of Barking Park has begun. The Longbridge Road open space unveiled in 1898 will get a new visitor centre and café, Mediterranean garden, new cycle routes, children s play area and skating facilities. Its derelict 1931 lido will be pa

YOU do not have to wield a knife or a gun to be convicted of murder, a new Facebook film warns. 'Who Killed Deon' is a ‘whodunnit’ in six episodes which reveals the connection of five characters who are guilty of murder, explaining how the joint enterprise concept can be used to convict a person of murder even if they had hardly any involvement.

TWO pensioners in their 90s are proving it s never too late to start surfing the web. Jim Saunders, 90, and Connie Howell, 92, recently embarked on a computer course for elderly people keen to get online. The training is run at the sheltered housing where

A GANG of Lithuanian squatters are moving into people s homes and changing the locks while they are out, it has been claimed. George Pope, 72, of Kier Hardie Way, Barking, took his dogs for a walk and returned to find a family had moved into his house and

A BMX club that jumped from 29th to third in the National Series this year faces closure after being repeatedly ransacked by raiders. To send a link to this page to a friend, you must be logged in. Bottom of Form Barking and Dagenham BMX – BAD BMX for sho

A PENSIONER has been made homeless after a family moved into his council home while he was out and changed the locks. Council tenant George Pope, 72, left his house in Keir Hardie Way, Barking, to take his two dogs for a walk in Parsloes Park on Thursday

UNPRECEDENTED traffic chaos ensued when a scrap metal worker discovered an unexploded grenade and police shut down a Barking street. Bottom of Form The entire Thames View Estate was in gridlock on Monday after staff at ELG Haniel Metals Ltd uncovered it o

A MARRIED mother-of-four who swindled £100,000 in benefits by claiming she was a struggling single mum has been jailed for nine months. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. Natalie Tear, 31, was living with her

TWO PEST control officers who killed a pet dog and 90 wild birds with poison for their own amusement could face jail. Mark Page, 35, and Terrance Webb, 28, spent their lunch breaks laying down bread laced with the pesticide Ficam-W at a beauty spot on M