The Latest Breaking News from Barking

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

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

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,…

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

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

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

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

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

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