Keep politics out of police

A LIVELY debate has opened up on the role of an elected mayor and whether there are sufficient checks and balances to ensure too much power is not placed in one person s hands. Only a dozen local authorities have so far gone down that road and one of thos... » MORE

Take fear away as first step

TWO Stratford families this week joined the spiralling number of those torn apart by the scourge of knife crime. At the same time a court in Brighton heard how a youth from East London, with a history of violent knife attacks, had murdered 22-year-old Dav... » MORE

Hug a knife thug? No thanks

THE controversy leading to the resignation of Ray Lewis, which is reported in full elsewhere today, would be laughable if it were not so serious. Even the flimsiest checks would have revealed that appointing him as a deputy mayor of London was, to say the... » MORE

A deadly serious subject

LAST week I commented on how, during a visit to Newham General Hospital, I discovered serious failings in the war on potentially fatal superbugs. A hygiene station at one of the main entrances was not working and several staff appeared unaware of their re... » MORE

It's a matter of life and death

THERE can hardly be anyone who is not aware that throughout the country in recent years several people have died from picking up infections while being treated in hospitals. Campaign after campaign have stressed how important it is that every visitor shou... » MORE

Double side of life...

IT was in the early days of building a new Docklands that a group of senior executives were contentedly swapping ideas when Sister Christine Frost s name was mentioned. Oh, said one, that bloody woman. Others nodded, some with closed eyes. Men who spe... » MORE

Love went down a bomb

WELL, ducks, it was just like the old days, wasn t it? The unearthing of a massive bomb in Stratford last week revived thoughts of the Blitz spirit which once characterised East London (and which some of us think is still needed today). For just a few of... » MORE

No wonder we go on suffering

I WAS young once. And, like most young people, I got up to some stunts that now send a shiver down my spine. Getting hammered is part of that and it is only in later life that most of us realise the consequences of doing so are not worth the experience.... » MORE

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