The Latest Breaking News from Bow

Plume of smoke visible for miles as 15 fire engines attend site in Bow, where no casualties have yet been reported

Roof of seven-storey building over flats caught light

A huge fire has broken out on a rooftop in east London where thick black smoke was seen pouring into the air.

Sadiq Khan has announced £69m a year to create more “school streets” across London – as one borough mayor infuriated parents by ripping out a scheme protecting primary school children. Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, ordered workmen to remove the traffic restrictions around Chisenhale school in Bow on…

This is the shocking moment a parent is stabbed in front of screaming primary school children on the way home in east London. The headteacher of Old Palace Primary School in Bow, east London has asked police for heightened patrols around dropping off and picking up time after a string…

A teenage boy was rushed to hospital after being shot in the back and legs moments after machete-wielding gangs clashed on the streets of east London.

Police said a man, 18, has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder

Detectives are hunting the killers of a London teenager stabbed to death during a “running battle” involving scores of young people near a party.

Another teenager in critical condition after reports of a disturbance involving a crowd of people

Police have released an image of a man they want to speak to after a sexual assault in Bow, east London.

The Shona and the Ndebele are Zimbabwe’s two most dominant ethnic groups. Explaining the ever-present tension between them, historian Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni points to the abuse of the post-colonial state by the ruling Shona-dominated government “in its drive to destroy Ndebele particularism”. He explains, “This sets in motion the current…