Further to Steve Bunce's obituary (28 April), I hadn't seen Terry Spinks for many years and I was pleasantly surprised when, sometime in the late 1990s he came into my pub, The Woodman, at Stanford Rivers, Essex, writes Eddie Johnson. He was having treatment at a hospital nearby and his devoted cousin Rosemary was taking him home for the weekend and they decided to have a drink (non-alcoholic) before continuing the journey to Chadwell Heath.

Sam Allardyce believes West Ham have banished the poor home form which cost his side automatic promotion as they head into the play-offs this week.

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Rupert Murdoch's News International offered £2m to sponsor an academy in east London close to the company's headquarters at Wapping, it emerged yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry.

Kevin Rawlinson meets Newham locals who say empty homes are being wasted

A Labour-run council in east London has been accused of ‘social cleansing’ after it revealed plans to move some of its poorest residents as far away as Stoke-on-Trent.

Unions, it is sometimes said, are a broad church, made up of members with a vastly differing array of opinions.

A Scotland Yard officer accused of racially abusing a suspect will be charged after a prosecution U-turn.

West Ham's latest bid to move into the Olympic Stadium is "fundamentally flawed" and should be disqualified, according to the Leyton Orient chairman, Barry Hearn.

A blaze at a goods yard which ran underneath an electricity line caused almost 90,000 properties to be without power this afternoon.

A crackdown on prostitution in the Olympic boroughs is putting the lives of sex workers at risk, it has been claimed.

Taxpayers are facing another hefty bill if West Ham United win the bid to move into the Olympic stadium, as officials hope.

A musician has appeared in court charged under the Dangerous Dogs Act after five officers were mauled during a raid.

A man who made legal history by appearing in court in a hospital bed was today found guilty of a double murder.