Emma Youle

When mum-of-four Dupe Daniyan first visited The Magpie Project she looked like she had walked in from a forest.

More than 3,000 homeless households have been moved out of Redbridge in the last five years as the council is forced to take tough action on the housing crisis.

The new mayor of Newham has slammed the loss of nearly 10,000 council homes under Right to Buy since the 1980s – saying the policy has exacerbated the bitter housing crisis in the borough.

Town hall leader Darren Rodwell sets out his ambitious plans for 60,000 new homes in the borough - and admits: ‘My parents’ might have thought twice about buying their council house if they had realised the consequences.’

Dagenham mum Chelsey O’Shea remembers vividly breaking down in tears distraught the day council housing officers told her she was being moved to Southend.

Newham’s Labour-run council has come under fire for failing to prevent 3,000 homeless households being moved out of the borough - from its own mayor.

There are 4,892 families without a permanent home in Newham, the highest figure for 10 years and a sign of the borough’s growing homelessness crisis. EMMA YOULE reports in the first of our special Hidden Homeless series

An innocent father-of-two has been wrongly branded a terrorist after armed anti-terror police stormed his flat in a mistaken raid.

In his own words, father-of-two Garcia Diabaca, 31, tells of the terrifying moment when armed terror cops burst into his bedroom. They were at the wrong address and had the wrong man, but the consequences for the supermarket worker have been far reaching.

Potentially life-saving breast cancer screening appointments for women in Newham have been delayed due to a shortage of staff to carry out the service.