POLICE are staging a month-long clampdown on drink-driving in the warm weather. Road policing officers across Essex will be actively enforcing the drink-drive laws throughout August, ensuring the sunshine, which encourages drinking at unusual locations
A £14,400 BILL has been handed to North Weald parish council by the Audit Commission, following its investigation into the council's 1999-2000 parish accounts. Just one resident's complaints to the Audit Commission, which oversees regular auditing
FOUR accidents in four weeks have led to an outcry among residents of Deepdene Road, Loughton, concerned that the state of their road will mean that next time an accident could be fatal. Residents are sick of hearing accidents outside their homes which
HEALTH bosses have promised a crackdown after it was revealed that Redbridge Primary Care Trust (PCT) has the highest sick rate of any PCT in north east London. More than six per cent of working days were lost to sickness last year compared with just
LONDON Underground has quashed hopes that new police powers to tackle anti-social behaviour could be used on Redbridge stations. Police officers and police community support officers have had the power to order groups of people to disperse since last
DRINKING water in Redbridge is of a high quality, according to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Mr Morley told Leyton and Wanstead MP Harry Cohen that Thames Water, and Essex and Suffolk Water, which supply water in Redbridge
LEYTON and Wanstead MP Harry Cohen has given his backing to organisations supporting the victims of sexual abuse. Mr Cohen recently attended a parliamentary meeting with representatives from a variety of local and national groups who offer help and
POLICE are urging householders to beware the risk posed by burglars and urged them not to leave windows unsecured during spells of hot weather. Ilford crime prevention officer PC Stephen Wills is advising residents not to leave ground floor windows
A NEW way of predicting how disease will be distributed throughout the country has put the borough in the low-risk bottom five of its table for heart disease over the next ten years. GeoMedics is a new service which analyses health and population data
OLDER residents of the borough who find the financial complexities of preparing for retirement daunting can now turn to a new book for advice. Because people in their fifties now have higher expectations of retirement than any other generation before
A BAFFLED Central line commuter is angry that conifer trees are being allowed to die just a year after being planted. Clifford Malcom, who uses the line to commute from his home in Buckhurst Hill to central London every day, says the 400-yard
THE amount of choice a bidding scheme gives council tenants has been called into question. The East London Letting Company Choice scheme allows Waltham Forest tenants on the housing register to 'bid' for houses advertised in a glossy fortnightly magazine
A SCAM involving data protection registration has reared its ugly head again in Waltham Forest and a businessman is worried that tricksters may be targeting the area. A company has written to a small borough firm offering to register it with the Information
A LEADING children's charity is appealing to black, Asian and mixed race families across the borough to become adoptive parents. Children's Charity NCH London Black Families aims to find adoptive families and individuals for babies, toddlers and children
