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Violent patients face ban as east London NHS staff wear bodycams to combat rise in assaults

Violence against staff at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has more than doubled in three years

Evening Standard

Health and Safety Executive looking at balcony collapse at multi-million pound Barking development

The £81 million block of flats has seen its balconies restricted from use after the incident in November

Evening Standard

Huge new techno festival 'High Lights' planned for east London park this summer

The festival will see up to 8,000 ravers a day descend on Barking Park

Evening Standard

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Fare-hopping London Underground passenger spat in face and punched man

The victim was exiting Barking station when they saw the man exit through the ticket gates closely behind another individual without paying

Evening Standard

Man fined £1,600 after cigarette is dropped out of car window in Barking

The car owner did not help officers identify the driver at the time of the offence

Evening Standard

‘All my friends have moved’: how UK cities have been hollowed out by housing price rises

In central London, schools are closing as low and middle-income families are priced out. But some suburbs have more young people than they can afford. And the pattern is being repeated across the UK

The Guardian - UK

Billy Bragg review – from bard of Barking to golden voice

Touring a box set of his 40-year career, Bragg remains unequivocally himself, but the radical romantic’s mellower vocals are a revelation

The Guardian - UK

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Residents’ fears as more than 75 apartment complex balconies at risk of collapse

Balcony partially collapsed at the Weaver’s Quarter estate in Barking last week, fortunately leaving no-one injured

The Independent UK

Anger after MP hopeful Darren Rodwell hung Labour banners on gravestones

Barking & Dagenham council leader Darren Rodwell was snapped tying promotional material to tombstones in the grounds of Barking Abbey

Evening Standard

Average cost of a semi hits an eye-popping £11 million in Kensington, 24 times higher than in Barking

A house price chasm between London areas has been laid bare, with semi-detached homes now priced 24 times higher in Kensington than Barking on average

Evening Standard

Habitat for Humanity sets sights on converting disused offices and retail to homes

It’s already copleted two such conversions in the borough of Barking and Daghenham

Evening Standard

Who was Stephen Port and what happened to his victims?

Serial killer Stephen Port was dubbed the “Grindr killer” for the way he scouted his victims on the gay dating app

Evening Standard

‘I’ve been beaten up by the police. They’re bullies’: Potter Payper on life after prison and his debut album

Ahead of the release of his debut album, the Barking-bred rapper opens up to Ellie Muir about getting caught in prison’s ‘revolving door’, inspiring his listeners, and having your lyrics used against you in court

The Independent UK

OPINION - The Standard View: London is feeling the full force of this NHS crisis

London’s Accident & Emergency departments are in crisis. New figures reveal that February saw 22,000 people wait longer than 12 hours to be seen in the capital’s hospitals, representing more than one in 10 of those attending, according to the NHS. One London trust, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals,…

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London’s biggest regeneration zones: 265,000 new homes are on the cards in boroughs across the capital

New town centres are appearing, bringing thousands of homes, new high streets and facilities to neighbourhoods across London. But is the capital building enough?

Evening Standard

Three men jailed after ‘taking turns’ during alleyway rape in Barking

Three men have been jailed for raping a woman in an alleyway in east London, the Met Police has said.

The Independent UK

Boy, 11, dies after blaze in east London flat

Four others were taken to hospital after the blaze in Barking.

The Independent UK

Child dies after blaze in east London flat, firefighters say

A three-roomed flat on the second floor of a building in Stern Close, Barking, has been ‘destroyed’ by flames, London Fire Brigade said.

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The Independent UK

Boy, 11, dies in Barking flat fire as two adults and children rushed to hospital

Two adults and two children managed to escape the blaze which ripped through the flat

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Boy, 11, dies in Barking flat fire in the early hours of the morning as two adults and two children flee

The second floor flat was completely destroyed in the blaze, which is being investigated by police

Daily Mirror

Barking fire: 'Happy' boy, 11, dies in horror blaze as two adults and two other kids flee

A fire broke out in a second floor flat, in Barking, London, in the early hours of this morning leading to one young boy tragically dying in the blaze as four other people were able to escape

Daily Mirror

Inside the terrifying estate controlled by Albanian drug gang where locals are 'targets'

Daisy O'Doherty says she was woken in her Barking flat by a police officer pointing a gun at her and described herself as a 'target' of the Hellbanianz gang who try to intimidate locals

Evening Standard

Barking: Three arrested after man, 32, stabbed during fight at station

Man who was knifed also arrested by police

The Guardian - UK

‘The Roding is sacred and has rights’: the hammer-wielding barrister fighting for London’s forgotten river

The unloved waterway that winds its way to the Thames has a staunch defender. Paul Powlesland has spent five years calling out polluters and keeping footpaths open – sometimes with the law, mostly with his bare hands

The Independent UK

Grayson Perry: ‘This lamp is a small monument to social housing’

The artist’s two-metre-wide illuminated artwork of a row of semi-detached houses can be viewed at Barking’s A House for Artists

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