- Just a Minute will never be quite the same again as Sir Clement Freud dies.
- A Hounslow man has been convicted for murdering (by setting fire to) his ex-boyfriend.
- We may be due a new poet laureate, but in the meantime you can check out a newly acquired portrait of the original chap to hold the post, John Dryden.
- The head of Canonbury primary school, where one of the junior Borises goes, is in big trouble. A 14 year old boy is in police custody this evening in connection with the Barking pub murder of a man on Easter Monday.
- A man has been shot in the head in Thornton Heath.
- Rise may rise again. Barkingsiders are fighting to preserve Fairlop Waters. West Ham boxing champ Matthew Marsh has retired suddenly just days before a big fight.
- A Leyton sculptor has upset the French with his depiction of Christ.
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