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Palestine has galvanised Ilford – and a local candidate is looking to harness that energy and challenge Wes Streeting MP, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

A broken down train has brought a busy section of the London Overground to a standstill on Thursday evening.

Jordan McSweeney was to be recalled to prison when he killed the 35-year-old law graduate as she walked home from a night out in Ilford

An art collective has defended a mural it painted on a house in Ilford that pays tribute to Palestinian journalists amid calls for its removal. 

Police appeal for dashcam footage as man, 46, dies from injuries after collision as they seize Range Rover

Two or three times a year my school would half-empty, leaving the remaining gentiles, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims to twiddle our thumbs. That was because in Ilford, Jewish children were excused for religious holidays. It was, after all, a Jewish community. I grew up in the Ilford North constituency in…

Across the country, Labour is enjoying 20-point leads in the polls. But in individual constituencies, sitting MPs don’t feel so safe. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting is perhaps the most high-profile example. The Ilford North MP is facing a challenge from an independent candidate over a single issue: Gaza.

Saydi Abu Sheikh, 23, and Zakariya Jeilani Mohamed, 31, were left dead or dying in a bedroom in a five-minute revenge raid in Ilford in October 2022

Police are investigating after Ilford-based school received letter threatening to ‘kill everyone there’

Jordan McSweeney killed the 35-year-old law graduate as she walked home from a night out in Ilford, east London, last year.