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The Latest Breaking News from Rainham

Havering Council facing legal action over fires at toxic landfill site in Rainham

Local residents have complained of breathing problems and coughing fits due to constantly smouldering fires

Evening Standard

Launders Lane: Incurable lung cancer sufferer fears she will die before seeing toxic fire put out

‘Time is running out’ - Frustrated and sick residents demand council action over toxic fire left to burn for 20 years

The Independent UK

Three people killed after stationary vehicle hit on busy A-road in east London

Police appeal for witnesses after fatal crash in Rainham

The Independent UK

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General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in...Dagenham and Rainham?

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

Evening Standard

‘I perpetually think we’ll win. We always lose’: Labour’s Jon Cruddas on elections, class and life as an MP

The member for Dagenham and Rainham says he can’t wait to leave parliament. So why did he spend the past 23 years there? And what does he think he achieved?

The Guardian - UK

Detectives solve Rainham sex assault cold case after DNA breakthrough

Gary Preston has been jailed for an assault carried out in Rainham in the 1980s

Evening Standard

City Hall to consider MP’s call to grant Ulez exemption for hospice staff and patients

Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, made the request in a letter to Seb Dance, London’s deputy mayor of transport

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Six-time Tory mayoral hopeful Andrew Boff runs for Dagenham and Rainham MP candidacy

The chairman of the London Assembly said he was ‘quite confident’ of winning the marginal, Labour-held seat - if selected

Evening Standard

Gas cylinders involved in ‘mixed waste’ industrial fire in Rainham

Two outhouses were destroyed and a van damaged

Evening Standard

Woman in her 50s killed in multi-vehicle pile-up in Rainham

The drivers of a lorry and a van were also taken to hospital

Evening Standard

East London residents fear dangerous toxins spewing from ‘decade-long’ landfill fires

People living close to the former landfill site in Rainham are demanding action to end the near-constant fires, reports Barney Davis

Evening Standard

Family car plunges into freezing water in Rainham as firefighters issue ice warning

‘It could have been a lot worse and shows just how dangerous driving in icy conditions can be’

Evening Standard

Rainham: Lorry driver killed after vehicle overturns on A13 in heavy rain

A lorry driver has been killed after his vehicle careered through a barrier on the A13 and overturned.

Evening Standard

Seventy firefighters tackle blaze in Rainham and issue smoke warning

Road closures are in place at the scene, police have said

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Police rammed during high-speed chase of Audi carjackers in Rainham

A police car was rammed following a dramatic high-speed chase with carjackers in east London.

The Guardian - UK

Who is Tory leadership candidate Rehman Chishti?

MP is far from a household name, even in the constituency of Gillingham and Rainham, which he has represented since 2010

Daily Mirror

Vile dog owner suspected of lobbing pet of car window being hunted by police

Beethoven, the cocker spaniel, was found limping in Hartlip, near Rainham, Kent, with X-rays showing he has spinal damage, two fractures to his tibia and many other injuries

Daily Mirror

Binge eater spends £9,000 on dream body after living a lifetime on 'fad diets'

Amy Elsley, 27, from Rainham, East London, used to keep eating until she felt sick but now after big changes to her life she says she is a better mum and her life is better

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Police seize cannabis worth £300,000, three guns and two crossbows in London raid

Detectives at the East Area Command executed search warrants at three industrial units in Rainham, where the drugs and weapons were seized.

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