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A daring burglary at a Tower Hamlets warehouse saw around 400 cases of vintage wine taken.

Detectives are appealing for information over the incident which took place at a building under railway arches in Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, sometime between midday on Saturday May 21 and 10am the following day.

The home of British boxing, British boxing in Bethnal Green will be the venue where the youngest known female boxing promoter in history will stage her first event.

Olivia Goodwin, 20, plans to make a big statement of her intentions as a promoter on June 4 with a 12- fight bill with two Championship contests.

Child Poverty in East London is the worst in the county, with Tower Hamlets showing the highest proportion of child poverty in the UK.

The Campaign to End Child Poverty said its research revealed child poverty rates of over 50 per cent in Bethnal Green and Bow, and Poplar and Canning Town.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

This may be my last column before the General Election. Readers of The Wharf might therefore find themselves more interested than usual in these thoughts. I've represented this area for 13 years, in Parliament and in all my dealings with various organisations and agencies, on behalf of local people. The voters will again be passing judgment soon.

Aldgate was the easternmost gate of a number built by the Romans, one of seven whose names live on a modern map.

The original Aldgate linked the City of London and Whitechapel and sat in the London Wall. The wall was a form of defence constructed by the Romans and it is believed Aldgate spanned the road to Colchester.

Former undisputed world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis is backing David Haye to win his title fight against Nikolai Valuev tomorrow.

Bermondsey-born Haye face the 7ft 2ins Russian in Germany hoping to become Britain's first world champion in the top division since Lewis hung up his gloves in 2003 writes Steven Davies.

Knockout or nonsense? The Wharf reports from the UK's first ever showcase of Chessboxing

WE’VE all seen gruesome fights on family board game night – but this evening was more brutal than a Christmas Day without TV repeats.

Tonight’s victor is sitting in a chair on an upper floor of the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club just minutes after masterminding a win on the chessboard.

Only he’s stripped to the waist and drenched in sweat, clasping a damp object against a rapidly-swelling black eye.