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Guwahati (Assam) [India] May 31 (ANI): The Lions Club of Gauhati, a 52 year old NGO, as part of its free COVID auto ambulance service initiative launched on May 12, added two more COVID auto ambulances with oxygen cylinder to serve coronavirus patients amid rising oxygen requirements with increasing cases.

Jo Precious set up the White House Charitable Fund Good fortune and adversity have both been part of life for Jo Precious and have strengthened her resolve to help others. Born into a family who once owned the Trebor company originally located in Forest Gate, Jo grew up in Ingatestone. When the familys firm was sold, her father, Ian Marks and his wife Angela, founders of Essex Community Foundation, set an inspiring example of how to be an innovative philanthropist. Jos contrasting experie...

Motorists caught on camera flouting the rules are automatically issued tickets. The latest schemes have been introduced under experimental traffic orders which can run from six to 18 months. During the first six months, people can formally comment. Deputy cabinet lead for environment, highways and sustainable transport, Cllr Nilufa Jahan said: "The council receive a significant number of complaints about traffic congestion and dangerous driving near some schools, particularly during drop-of...

A Met Police officer who was jailed for breaking a black fathers leg in front of his sons as they visited their mothers grave has also now been sacked by the force. PC Charlie Harrison racially profiled Carl Abrahams, 47, as he made his way home from a cemetery in east London on December 31, 2018, a court was previously told. The 39-year-old officer was patrolling in an unmarked police car in Forest Gate, with two other officers as part of the Violent Crime Task Force. In front of Harrisons car...

PC Charlie Harrison was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court yesterday (April 12). - Credit: MPS A police officer who was jailed for grievous bodily harm (GBH) has been sacked without notice by the Met. Pc Charlie Harrison was on duty in plain clothes when he lashed out with his foot and knocked a man to the ground in front of his two sons in Sebert Road, Forest Gate, on New Years Eve in 2018. The 39-year-old, who was attached to the Mets violent crime taskforce, appeared to be carrying out ...

A LEIGH headteacher is setting up a virtual parliament for hundreds of children to debate climate change. Peter Spencer-Lane, head of Saint Pierre School on Leigh Road, Leigh, is the headteacher champion for the UK’s “House of Children” virtual parliament. This will see 650 child MPs debate climate change in October. The initiative has been set up by Microsoft, The Big Issue and content organising firm Wakelet, allowing children aged seven to 13 to debate and vote on critical issu...

Father Luc Emmerich discovered the statue had been vandalised this morning (May 13). - Credit: Jon King A statue in Forest Gate was vandalised outside a church as priests prayed inside. The concrete figure of St Antony cradling the baby Jesus in his arms was pushed over and broken at St Antony of Padua church in Forest Gate at about 7am today (May 13). A gift from a benefactor, the three-foot tall sculpture had replaced a plaster figure of the Sacred Heart which was damaged after being ta...

A sink was among the waste dumped on Wanstead Flats. - Credit: Chris Austin About 30 bags of fly-tipped waste and building materials have been dumped on Wanstead Flats. Loft insulation, plaster and boards were among the rubbish left overnight at the space which borders Forest Gate, Manor Park, Wanstead and Leytonstone. It was discovered by passersby on Thursday, May 6. Cut offs and loft insulation were among the illegally dumped waste. - Credit: Chris Austin Chris Austin from Forest Gate said t...

Abubakarr Jah smiles fondly as he remembers his two sons as youngsters. The doting dad would push little Ahmed and Abubakkar, known as Junior, on swings in their local park in East London, the boys squealing in delight. As a treat, Mr Jah and wife Hawa Deen would take the boys and their two sisters to Chessington World of Adventures to ride the roller coasters, see the exotic animals and enjoy ice cream.  ‘Ahmed and Junior were both very friendly,’ says Mr Jah, 53. ‘They had different dr...

Dale Brickwood speaks out after the trial of a man accused of killing his father collapses.