The Latest Breaking News from Dagenham

British Heart Foundation says ‘urgent action’ needed to prevent further deaths

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?

Three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder

Metropolitan Police investigated after two men knifed in east London

The first victim was arrested over the second attack on Flamstead Road at 1.30am

Final year students from Goresbrook school talk about housing, higher education and social media – as well as hopes and fears

The Labour MP and party historian on why he worries for Keir Starmer, the decline of social democracy, and his love of Seamus Heaney

The constable was based in a unit patrolling Barking and Dagenham

Belts, collars, and a Swarovski-encrusted whip. Don’t be fooled by the frumpy cover art. This is the tale of a midlife love affair between two well-heeled London artsy types that swiftly descends into under-negotiated kink and trips to the tawdry sex parties of Woking, Datchet and Dagenham, “where taxi drivers…