All news by author: Ruby Gregory

Ruwaida Adan, 15, from East London, was strangled by her own headscarf at Capital Karts in Barking when it became caught and the company has now been fined nearly £120,000

Elderly residents in East London have been slapped with fines after a local council decided to crack down on bird feeding in public parks

Drug outreach workers in Tower Hamlets, London, say they've seen a disturbing rise in users with flesh-eating abscesses sparking belief there is a new opioid on the rise disguised as heroin

Wazabakana Elenda Jordan Kukabu, 18, known as Jordan, was stabbed to death near Dagenham Heathway Tube station and his uncle said the family have been threatened

The Ali family has spent years trying to get the mould and rodent issue in their Plaistow, East London, home sorted but say the problem is now so bad they are living in one room

Police say the group of teenagers were allowed to drink at the Cocktail Club in London's Canary Wharf for six hours, during which time older men made "concerning" sexual advances towards them

Mohamed Abubakar, his wife Rasha Al-Buriahi and their four children of whom the youngest is one-year-old, have to eat and sleep in the same room of their overcrowded home in east London