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There's an ice cream van selling drugs on Galbraith Street.
And that's not all. Drunks are shouting late into the night and tearing around Virginia Quay. New Union Wharf residents aren't happy about graffiti, drug dealing and vandalism, and there isn't enough lighting in St John's Park.
Officers from the Isle of Dogs are planning to conquer one of the City of London's tallest buildings to raise funds for a girl's life-saving treatment.
The group of eight will join other PCs at Tower 42 on January 22, where they will attempt to scale the 42-storey building's 920 steps.
A quantity of cannabis was discovered by officers in Roffey Street last week.
Blackwall and Cubitt Town Safer Neighbourhoods team raided the premises on January 6, and a 26-year-old was arrested for cannabis possession.
A DLR passenger was robbed at knifepoint by two men as he was leaving Poplar station.
The 37-year-old white male was making his way down the stairs at Castor Lane when he saw two males aged around 18 loitering at the bottom.
A beloved pet was killed and left on a neighbour's doorstep on the Island last month.
Black and white cat Disco disappeared from a property on East Ferry Road on December 5, prompting his owners to go door-to-door in search of information. They were shocked to find him dead at the front of another house on the street two days later.
A Greenwich businessman has been jailed and fined £274,000 for shipping class A drugs across the UK.
Mark Anthony Gard, 43, of Armitage Road, used a fleet of vans issued by a legitimate parcel delivery business to run a drug-delivery operation.
Police have raided an Isle of Dogs address as part of an investigation into prostitution and drug use at a lap dancing club.
Following a six-month operation codenamed Vermillion, officers raided the Goodge Street Capricorn Club and eight London and Essex addresses. They made seven arrests.
A new domestic violence court has sentenced a man to twenty weeks in jail for beating his terminally ill girlfriend after an argument.
French national George Noel, 47, of East Ferry Road, confronted his partner after an argument and punched her in the face with such force that she was knocked backwards and hurt her back on the bath.
Residents of an Isle of Dogs estate have won a small victory over drug use under their noses.
Occupants of New Union Wharf have complained of persistent drug problems on the estate for several months, with youths dealing and smoking cannabis outside and from an untaxed car.
Police investigating the violence surrounding the West Ham v Millwall Carling Cup match have launched a fresh appeal for witnesses.
Officers investigating the trouble at Upton Park in August are releasing a gallery of 66 individuals they would like to speak to in connection with offences of violent disorder at the game.
A teenager who was stabbed just yards from the Isle of Dogs police station has joined the chorus of voices calling for it to open later in the day.
Hanif Ali, 14, was "jumped" by a gang of ten youths as he got off the D7 bus on Manchester Road last month. The mob stabbed him in the stomach, severed two tendons in his wrist, and left him with further injuries to the head and arm.
West Ham and Millwall have been charged by the Football Association following the crowd trouble at their Carling Cup match last month.
The match at Upton Park on August 25 saw widespread fighting outside the ground, missile throwing, racist abuse of players and pitch invasions by West Ham supporters.
An attack outside a nightclub has led to calls for action to be taken against the Newham venue.
The incident, in which a man was believed to be cut in the head with a broken bottle, took place on Friday night (September 11) outside the Summer Gold club.
Climate camp has been set up in Blackheath for a week, in which time activists have launched actions against London targets such as Barclays, Shell, RBS and even the Daily Mail.
As the tents and haystacks come down, The Wharf talks to camp spokesman Peter McDonnell about the event and its long-term impact.
Climate campers travelled to Canary Wharf this afternoon to launch a protest against Barclays in Churchill Place.
Protesters brought banners - and a football - to One Churchill Place in a bid to "shame" the bank into re-considering its investments in the arms trade and coal power.
Newham officers are on the hunt for a mob who stabbed a father outside Upton Park as trouble flared at this week's West Ham vs Millwall match.
The 43-year-old Millwall fan is in a stable condition in hospital following the attack, which also saw the group aim punches and kicks at his two teenage sons.
View the Wharf's climate camp gallery here
Demonstrators are camping in the shadow of Canary Wharf to raise awareness about climate change.
Hundreds descended on Blackheath yesterday afternoon to set up a "climate camp", a tent-peppered community which will serve as a base, an open house and a home for workshops over the next week.
It will be tin hat time in east London in two weeks after two of football's bitterest foes were paired in the second round of the Carling Cup.
West Ham will face Millwall at the Boleyn Ground in what is undoubtedly the tie of the round.
A commuter who asked a group of teenagers to stop spitting at fellow passengers was followed down the road and attacked.
The victim, a 51-year-old man, was at Greenwich DLR on Monday June 22, when he confronted the group on the platform.
Gang violence has been blamed for a clash which left two Isle of Dogs teens in hospital with stab wounds.
A 17 and 14 year old were taken to separate East London hospitals after a battle involving around 30 youths between Cahir Street and Harbinger Road at around 5.30pm last Friday (May 29).
