East London

UK NEWS: 12 YEAR GIRL BRUTALLY RAPED IN EAST LONDON

A 12 year old girl was brutally raped in the early hours of Saturday morning in Walthamstow between 12.15am and 12.30am Police said in a statement: This was a very nasty attack on a vulnerable girl just 12-years-old by a group of older males who engaged her in conversation before leading her to a secluded area (.The incident took place in Hibbert Road). She was pinned down and two of the males then brutally raped her. I would appeal for anyone with information []

UK NEWS: THE STARS COME OUT TO HELP LAUNCH THE HACKNEY ACADEMY / MY THOUGHTS

Today the great and the good from the dizzy world of entertainment travelled to East London to help launch the Hackney Academy…. Via The BBC BBC Radio 1 and BBC Learning today announced details of the Radio 1 and 1Xtra Academy – the stations’ biggest ever programme of social action and outreach, which will offer up to 10,000 young people across Hackney and beyond the chance to gain skills and experience and to be inspired by leading people in their fields.  Opening in the run up []

UK NEWS: CHARISMATIC PASTOR JAILED FOR 8 MONTHS FOR SEXUALLY ASSAULTING TEENAGE BOY

Evangelical pastor, Pastor Albert Odulele founder of Glory House International church based in East London has been sentenced to 8 months in prison, after admitting in court to assaulting a 14-year-old boy and a 21-year-old youth pastor. Via The Independent The court heard how Odulele, founder of the Glory House International Pentecostal church, would frequently share hotel beds while travelling the world with a large entourage of security and pastors.   In around 2003, he was watching television with a boy over whom he had “assumed []

UK MUSIC: E.L – THROW IT BACK

Check out up and coming group (from East London) E.L and their debut single Throw It Back. The  group consists of two main rappers and a DJ. The front man of the group is known as Pteezy while the rapper known as T is the mysterious artist of the group (you will soon see why…….) I can see the 14-16 year old female demographic grooving to this party track. It has mainstream appeal to a certain extent. But I also think the []

BNP LEADER NICK GRIFFIN SAYS ‘EAST LONDON IS LIKE NAIROBI’

Far-right leader /BNP Nick Griffin has been secretly filmed while out campaigning, and likened East London to Nairobi. Does anyone know if Nick has been to Nairobi? Is he even capable of finding the country on a map? Last week Nick pounded the streets of Barking campaigning, with what can only be described as a mad black pastor by his side, who he claims has joined the BNP. Nothing this FOOL says or does fazes me.   Bring it on Nick! I’m a big girl I can take it. Tell us how you []

UK NEWS: GIRL SHOT IN THE NECK AT TAKEAWAY IN EAST LONDON DIES

[Thanks Kaydine] Via BBC News A 16-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at a takeaway restaurant in east London has died. Agnes Sina-Inakoju was shot through the window of Hoxton Chicken and Pizza on Hoxton Street in Hackney by two people on bikes on Wednesday night. She was taken to a local hospital but died on Friday morning, police said. Continue Reading…. This is so sad. What a waste of a young life. As for the lowlife responsible for her death, I just hope []

UK NEWS: BOY KNIFED TO DEATH IN ‘POST CODE GANG WAR’

Via The Metro A teenager was stabbed to death in a ‘postcode war’ gang killing shortly after leaving a party held by campaigners against black youth violence. Steven Lewis, 15, was set upon by a group of youths, knifed repeatedly in the chest and left to die in his 16-year-old sister’s arms. Friends of the teenager on Sunday linked the killing to a gang from a neighbouring area in East London. ‘There is rivalry. It is neighbourhoods, postcodes – E13 versus E16,’ []

YOUTUBE FAVOURITE: ANGRY JAMAICAN WOMAN AT STRATFORD TRAIN STATION (LONDON)

I just came across this clip again and it still managed to bring on a huge belly laugh Smoking in all public places in the UK is now banned, but one sorry individual (man wearing the pink shirt) chose to ignore this law while standing on a train station’s platform, and is then verbally blasted to Kingdom Come. If only he had bothered to take notice of the huge red ‘NO SMOKING’ sign….   Please note that this footage was filmed using a mobile phone so isn’t of the best quality visually but just listen to []