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A drug dealer from Beckton who claimed jobseekers allowance despite making thousands from crime has been sent to prison.

Lewis Esty, 25, of Windsor Road, was convicted after an investigation by British Transport Police officers who arrested him for selling drugs outside an Underground station.

Gallions Reach shopping centre in Beckton is also shutting down after rumours that it would be targeted by looters later this evening.

A Beckton man has been sentenced to two years in prison for his part in an internet scam which enticed its victims to part with millions of pounds.

Michael Ugboaja, of Mitchell Walk, was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court yesterday, for laundering over £470,000 scammed from victims all over the world.

The Docklands Light Railway's (DLR's) three-car upgrade has been completed on time and within budget with the launch of three-car trains on the Tower Gateway to Beckton route.

The £325million upgrade also includes longer platforms, improved track and signalling, £13million of improvements to Tower Gateway station and an entire new station at South Quay.

X-Factor judge Simon Cowell was at Richard House Children's Hospice in Beckton on Wednesday to meet youngsters with life-threatening conditions.

The visit was to help raise awareness of the work of Children's Hospices UK for which Cowell is a patron. He spent time chatting to many of the sick children at the hospice who are not expected to reach adulthood.

Further progress in the DLR expansion will take place next month as the network gears up for a record breaking Olympic summer in 2012.

A third carriage on the Beckton to Thames Gateway branch will give 50 per cent more capacity for users when it comes in over the next few weeks.

Police called to an out of control party left the scene just half an hour before a 20-year-old was stabbed to death, a court heard.

David Cauchi-Lechmere, from Bow, was killed following an attack on July 11 last year by a gang carrying weapons including an axe, a hammer, shears and knives.

Police have charged a 42-year-old man in relation to a double murder in Beckton.

Sergei Zolotovsky, of Stratford, East London, was remanded in custody when he appeared at Thames Magistrates Court. His wife, Svetlana, 40, and her mother Antonia Belska, 70, were found dead from knife wounds on August 12.

Police have started formally questioning a man arrested over the murder of a mother and daughter in Beckton.

Svetlana Zolotovska, a 40-year-old Latvian national, and her mother Antonia Belska, 70, (both pictured) were killed during the early hours of last Thursday.

Witnesses to a double murder in Beckton on Thursday morning are being urged by police to come forward.

A woman in her 40s, named locally as Svetlana Zolotovska from Latvia was killed in Stansfeld Road at around 7.30am.

Police are continuing investigations of two crime scenes in Beckton following a double murder on Thursday morning.

Neighbours described the incident, which has seen the area remain cordoned off throughout the morning, as a shock in a quiet area.

A water treatment plant has been opened in east London to help deal with shortages during droughts.

The desalination works at Beckton will turn sea and river water from the Thames into high-quality drinking water.

The MP for East Ham is being treated in hospital after he was stabbed in the stomach at a constituency event earlier this afternoon.

Stephen Timms, whose injuries are not said to be life threatening, is receiving treatment at the Royal London Hospital.

Using that faux-naif, bumbling yet charming manner of Boris Johnson, the London Mayor has carefully cultivated an air of confusion over his thoughts on a London river crossing.

Since the '70s there have been repeated attempts to take the pressure off the Blackwall Tunnel and other beleaguered links but, so far, they have come to naught.

The DLR has been in a state of constant expansion since its inception in 1982 when the emerging Docklands developments demanded a dedicated transport link.

The original layout of the network saw routes from Island Gardens via Poplar to Stratford and, to the West, to Tower Gateway.

Police have named Olukorede Fajinmi as the teenager who died after being stabbed outside Showcase Cinemas in Beckton at the weekend.

The 17-year-old from Ilford was pronounced dead at the scene of the incident just after 8.45pm on Friday night.

As late workers and midweek drinkers ambled to the DLR late last Wednesday, some spotted a slightly longer train pulling into the platform.

It may not have been in operation, but this was the first sighting of DLR's new three-car trains on the Bank to Lewisham line.

Commuters faced major problems getting to Canary Wharf and beyond this morning. A signalling problem at Canning Town halted all services from Beckton and Woolwich Arsenal. A rail replacement bus service took some of the strain and the service started to get back to normal mid-morning with DLR reporting minor delays.

The three-car upgrade of the Docklands Light Railway has moved a step closer to completion with funding confirmed for the line to Beckton.

A total of £18.2million will be provided to boost passenger capacity on trains serving the route, calming fears it would miss out on the upgrade being carried out on the rest of the network.

DLR customers are waiting to gauge the impact of a re-opened Tower Gateway station on their daily commute.

The company has revealed the new timetable – and it’s a mixed bag for passengers who have complained of overcrowding on the Woolwich extension.