DRIVERS visiting the City of London Cemetery (right) will require a permit to drive around the site from April 1. The introduction of the scheme comes after a number of near-misses and one car veering off the road into a gravestone. The permit scheme
PRESENTING the Conservatives' suggestions for a budget, leader Geoff Walker said that the local council tax burden had escalated by 65.23 per cent since Labour took power nationally. He branded the rise proposed by Waltham Forest's Labour/Liberal Democrat
COUNCIL tax will go up by nearly five per cent from April, an increase of some £60 a year on an average band D property. Introducing the pre-election budget, which was approved by a full sitting of the council last Thursday, council leader Clyde Loakes
A CENTENARIAN celebrated her 100th birthday with a party in the West End fit for a queen. May Freshwater, of Chingford, has spent 90 years of her life in Waltham Forest and enjoyed two parties to mark her 100 years. The first was with family at her
WATER is still gushing down a Chingford street three months after residents say they reported the leak to Thames Water. They called the utilities company at the beginning of November after seeing running water in The Copse. But nothing has been done
Today we take fibre optics as an everyday piece of technology, but how was it invented in Harlow? DAN BARDEN discovered the facts behind the invention, 40 years ago. IMAGINE a world without the Internet. No surfing the super highway for information
ITEMS of jewellery belonging to deceased patients which were in a safe stolen from St Clare Hospice, Hastingwood, have been returned. The hospice this week said the safe, stolen after an office window was smashed, was dumped in the hospice grounds, after
A NEW hall is being planned for St Ann Line Church in South Woodford. A planning application has been submitted to Redbridge Council to demolish garages which are at the back of the church in Grove Crescent. The plans include building a church hall,
FUNDING for improvements to Wanstead Leisure Centre has trebled following a meeting of the council's cabinet. Councillors decided to increase funding for improvements to the Redbridge Lane West centre from £200,000 to £600,000. The money will be spread
ARTISTIC youngsters in Redbridge have been given the chance to develop their musical and media skills, thanks to a £50,000 grant from the Arts Council of England. The successful bid by Redbridge Council's arts development team will lead to the funding
SCRAMBLED, poached, boiled or fried, top radio presenter Mike Parry has never eaten an egg. That was, however, until one morning when generous Steve Church promised to hand over a cheque for £5,000 to Haven House children's hospice, Woodford Green, if
A MOTHER of a 12-year-old boy mugged in Stratford has spoken about her fears as a youth event returns. A security operation to prevent violence among young people will be mounted on March 11, the day the Choice FM Junior Jam will be held at the Stratford
YOU may catch the likes of Kano or Dizzee Rascal at the Stratford Rex today, but 100 years ago you could have seen some of ourfinest actors. Ellen Terry, Sir Henry Irving andBeerbohm Tree trod the boards at the Borough Theatre and Opera House on the
WARNING letters are going out to every school in Redbridge after the attempted abduction of an 11-year-old schoolgirl. She was walking past an alleyway in Buntingbridge Road in Ilford shortly after 6pm on Tuesday, March 21, when a man pulled her into
SCHOOLS and libraries across Redbridge bore the brunt of industrial action by council employees on Tuesday, striking over changes to their pension scheme. Nine schools including Aldersbrook Primary, Oakdale Junior and Roding Primary sent children home
A SPATE of thefts by conmen preying on elderly residents is hitting Waltham Forest. Pensioners across the borough have fallen victim to the thieves who have posed as officials from the police and water company and as a council contractor. A 88-year-old
COUNCIL tax bills for householders across the Epping Forest district are increasing by four per cent, final figures show. The district council's share of bills is going up by 2.46 per cent on last year - an increase of £3.24 per year for a band D property
THE sound of music was in the air at Buckhurst Hill Baptist Pre-school. Youngsters, aged two to four, played drums, triangles, castanets, xylophones and a range of instruments brought in by touring Epping Forest Arts workshop the Magic of Music. Manager
NOMINATIONS are being sought for the borough's second annual Excellence in Childcare Awards next month. Following the success of last year's event, it is expected even more hard working and dedicated staff, volunteers and community members will be put
AN asylum-seeking mother and her suicidal daughter are on the verge of being deported despite facing persecution in their country of origin. But Roma gypsies Eda Berisha and her mother Vjollca from Kosovo, who live in West Ham, have been given hope after
THE family of a pensioner murdered in his own home have spoken for the first time about their loss and pleaded for help to find his killer. Father of five Mehar Singh Kataria, 68, of Byron Avenue, Manor Park, was beaten to death on February 3. He was
WAITING times for testing are set to halve at Whipps Cross after a new endoscopy unit opened. The £1.8 million unit at Whipps Cross University Hospital, will see 1,200 more patients a year - 40 per cent more than before. One consultant, two support
VOLUNTEERS are desperately needed to keep London's only air ambulance running. The Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) is based at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and serves the area within the M25 but with each mission costing approximately
SCRAMBLED, poached, boiled or fried, top radio presenter Mike Parry has, believe it or not, never eaten an egg. That was, however, until Friday morning, when generous Steve Church promised to hand over a cheque for £5,000 to Haven House Children's Hospice
CLAIMS that traffic is going down in Redbridge, bucking the trend of increasing national levels, have been met with derision. Latest figures obtained from the Department for Transport by London Assembly's Green Party group show a fall of traffic in Redbridge
THE marking of children's arms with black ink at a swimming gala has been slammed as a "bizzare" form of branding. Two Woodford mothers have hit out at the use of waterproof black felt tip ink to mark the skin of youngsters whose parents did not want
