Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters responded to the blaze at an east London residential block.

Fire breaks out in block of flats in Plaistow

Emergency services were called shortly before 6am to New City Road.

Boy, 5, dies after falling 150ft from east London tower block

Jordan Walker-Brown, who was 23 at the time, was left with “catastrophic” injuries after falling and hitting his head on the pavement and breaking his back.

Police officer cleared of GBH on man left paralysed after being tasered

The victim, 20, was fatally injured in the “brutal, targeted” killing on Tuesday afternoon.

Attacker dressed in black stabs man to death in his Plaistow home

In a previous hearing, Phyllis's killing was described as involving "extreme violence". 

Man fatally attacks own grandmother using vase at her east London home

Buildings had to be evacuated amid a huge fire in a busy high street in Plaistow, the London Fire Brigade said.

Seven evacuated amid huge fire in Plaistow high street

A man is fighting for his life after being hit by a hail of bullets in east London.

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