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Police are looking for an 18-year-old on the Isle of Dogs in connection with a stabbing on Commercial Road last year.

They would like to speak to Brandon Hutchinson about the stabbing outside a shop on September 7. They believe Hutchinson is living on or near the Island.

Plans to use a beach on Greenwich Peninsula for live events attended by up to 3,500 people are to be reconsidered by Greenwich Council.

Dutch company Orange Connections have resubmitted an application to use Delta Beach, on the west side of the peninsula, for at least 12 events a year. Greenwich's licensing sub-committee will consider the new application next Wednesday.

Campaigners trying to save a colony of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs are celebrating victory after Tower Hamlets Council agreed to stop all culling activity in the borough.

The Department for Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had instigated a policy to remove the birds from Millwall Park and surrounding streets, claiming their large nests posed a threat to infrastucture.

Redevelopment of the City Pride site could be back on the agenda after the site was sold.

However, mystery surrounds just who has bought the pub site in Westferry Road, along with a linked site at Island Point at the southern end of the Isle of Dogs.

Tower Hamlets' Mayor Lutfur Rahman is to allow corporate and commercial events in three Isle of Dogs parks sparking fears that local communities will find their access restricted.

Millwall Park, Sir John McDougal Gardens and Island Gardens are among a number of parks in the borough to be hired out, raising up to £200,000 a year for the Council.

A murder investigation has been launched following the death of a woman from the Isle of Dogs.

Jasmine Choudhury, 33, of Stanliff House in Cassilis Road died at the Royal London Hospital on Monday. Police had been called to the property at around 7.30pm last Saturday and discovered Ms Choudhury suffering from head injuries.

Ideas for the future home of the Traffic Light Tree are being sought by Tower Hamlets Council.

The iconic sculpture was removed from Westferry Road as part of a redevelopment of the Heron Quay roundabout and the council said the much-loved piece of art is currently in storage until a suitable new site is found.

A violent man wanted in connection with assaults and arson in Essex is thought to be living on the Isle of Dogs.

Police have appealed for information over Chistopher Renda, 30, who they say is dangerous and should not be approached.

Despite living on the doorstep of some of the world's largest blue chip firms, residents on the Isle of Dogs have had to make do with snail-paced internet.

Now campaigning residents associations have landed ground-breaking technology which will move them into the fast lane of the information superhighway.

Latest plans to redevelop Asda on the Isle of Dogs have been met with anger after it was revealed it would see the area's only petrol station demolished.

Conservative councillor Blackwall and Cubitt Town Gloria Thienel said the proposed development by Ashbourne Beech for the Crossharbour site would be to hit the Island's car owners hard.

Last week a group of Island residents and I, as local councillor, were involved in an outstanding piece of cross borough working for the benefit of Islanders.

As reported in The Wharf, a business was seeking licensing to operate a section of the Greenwich foreshore as a place of entertainment.

A rally against the culling of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs drew a "disappointing" crowd but organisers are determined to continue their campaign.

Around 35 people attended the rally in Millwall Park last Sunday to try and stop the cull of the birds by the Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra).

A major retail and residential development is being planned for a central site of the Isle of Dogs.

The Asda superstore on East Ferry Road has long been earmarked for regeneration, with the last attempt by Ashbourne Beech scrapped in 2009.

Residents on the Isle of Dogs are making a noise about plans to stage a huge festival in Greenwich to coincide with the Olympics.

The Peninsula Festival is planned for land close to The O2 before and during the Games, with up to 45,000 people expected to attend on some days. Live music and extended drinking hours are on the agenda, as well as a campsite for festival-goers to use.

A youth community worker has been sent to prison for a gang attack which left a teenager with stab wounds to his head, a fractured eye socket and a fractured back.

In a trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Hashu Miah, 24, of Triton House in Cahir Street, was found guilty of grievous bodily harm with intent over the incident on the Isle of Dogs in February.

Tower Hamlets politicians have condemned the violence that has occurred across the borough in the last 24 hours.

Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick and Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman have both promised that everything is being done to try and safeguard people and property in the area from rioters.

The Isle of Dogs didn't escape last night's rioting with looters stealing £15,000 of goods from a Tesco store and four cars being burned out on the Timber Wharf estate.

The violence began at around 10.25pm when a gang of up to 60 youths attacked Tesco Express in Pepper Street.

By Peter Golds

The funeral has taken place of one of our local unsung heroes.

Former councillor and mayor Barry Blandford recently died aged 77 and his funeral was on Friday.

He was devoted to the people of this borough, where he had lived all his life.

A few weeks ago a thriving colony of swans was removed from Royal Victoria Docks.
Their presence was deemed as a threat to the aeroplanes landing at London City Airport and their absence was noted sadly by residents.

The swans were removed to another part of the country.

A battle has broken out over the controversial culling of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs.

Fourteen adult birds and a number of eggs were removed from Millwall Park last month, prompting Islanders to launch a campaign to stop the cull, claiming they are feathered friends not parrot pests.