Results tagged “Limehouse”

A race between two men, which saw cars reach 78mph in a 40mph zone along Aspen Way, left an Aston Martin Vantage an unrecognisable wreck after it crashed into a concrete wall.

Both men miraculously escaped unhurt in the incident and on Thursday avoided a spell in prison as well after being given suspended sentences.

Police have released CCTV pictures of a man wanted for a "vicious and unprovoked assault" on an Australian man near Westferry DLR.

The suspect, who is Asian and aged around 20 to 25 years old, left his victim with fractures to his skull and a broken nose, as well as broken ribs and fingers.

A homeowner was horrified when they returned from holiday to find a group of homeless people had moved into their property.

The offenders broke into the address in Narrow Street, Limehouse, last October, drunk expensive bottles of wine and ate food from the fridge. They also left dog excrement all over the inside of the house.

Hollywood actor and Limehouse resident Sir Ian McKellen has long harboured an ambition to open a little tea shop.

This month, in partnership with his old friend the theatre director Sean Mathias and Evening Standard chairman and one-time owner of Sake No Hana Evgeny Lebedev, he took over historic pub The Grapes in Narrow Street instead.

A Government commissioned report has recommended an east London station which is used by more than two million people a year be unmanned.

Limehouse, which serves both British Rail and DLR customers, is one of the stations the McNulty Report suggests should lose its ticket office.

A businessman was badly beaten in a suspected mugging in Limehouse on Tuesday evening.

The victim, who was aged 34, was assaulted at about 9.50pm as he walked along the footpath behind Dundee Wharf. Nearby residents heard the attack and ran to the scene to help the injured man.

A second man has been charged over the murder of 24-year-old Limehouse man Kowshar Hussain.

Jonathan Joseph-Bell, 24, of Dock Street, E1, is due to appear at Woolwich Magistrates Court on Friday over the attack which took place last weekend.

A 27-year-old from Stepney has appeared in court charged with the murder of Kowshar Hussain from Limehouse.

Liam Whitnell of Stepney Way E1 was at Camberwell Magistrates Court on Wednesday after being charged by police over the incident the day before.

A hero of the East End and one of the most effective prime ministers of the 20th century returned to his spiritual home this week.

Or at least a statue of Clem Attlee again stands in the East End, only a short distance away from the People's Palace where the Limehouse MP heard in 1945 that his party had won sufficient seats to form the first post-war government.

When the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George ripped into the house of Lords for its opposition to his people's budget in 1909, his attack became known as "Limehousing".

It was phrase that would soon encompass all incendiary political speeches.

A gunman was impaled on a fence and shot four times in a gangland attack in Tower Hamlets which saw five people jailed for a combined term of 39 years.

Anton Ekprikpo (right), 22, of Stewart Street E14, was a pillion passenger on one of two motorbikes who fired shots at an Audi A3 near Devons Road station just before midnight on March 6 last year.

A photographic project that started out as a memory jogger for freelance photographer Mark Sherratt has been turned into month-long exhibition.

The 31-year-old is showing 1,000 images at a Limehouse arts centre and, over strong black coffee at the gallery, a somewhat hungover Sherratt filled me in on his first show.

By Jon Massey

The Wharf's crisp sterility hardly seems the place for ghouls and spirits.

Even though, on dark nights, certain passages can seem curiously deserted, it's difficult to imagine anything more terrifying than an estate security guard going bump.

He's earned renown for playing villains on stage and screen but Steven Berkoff very nearly found life imitating art in his formative years.

The Limehouse-based actor grew up in London's East End and his early years saw him drifting into petty crime and brushes with the law. He has written about those days in a new autobiography, Diary of a Juvenile Delinquent.

A former House of Commons worker has admitted forging MPs' signatures to claim thousands of pounds worth of fake expenses.

Andrew Gibson, 50, of Athol Square in Limehouse, pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud when he appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday.

A 63-year-old prolific drug dealer has been sent to prison for selling crystal meth.

Richard Lubbock, who lived in a penthouse flat in Commercial Road, Limehouse, was convicted after being found in possession of more than £300,000 of drugs.

By Andrew Williams

Amid all of the confusion and intrigue following the election last week, one historic fact stood out as a highlight.

The Green Party returned their first member of parliament, with Caroline Lucas winning Brighton Pavilion. This is a huge step for the Greens who have been labelled as more of a pressure group than a proper political force.

Last week saw leading candidates for the Poplar and Limehouse Parliamentary seat Tim Archer, George Galloway and Jim Fitzpatrick battle it out at a hustings.

Next Tuesday will be the turn of the other candidates at the Cruising Association in Limehouse, including Independent Jim Thornton, pictured.

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