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  • Plans prompt parking concerns

    A BLOCK of flats will be built on a Walthamstow car park bordering the Leucha Road conservation area after Waltham Forest Council agreed to the plans. Apart three and part four-storey building comprising six two-bedroom flats, is planned for the site

  • CSI experience

    HARLOW College students got a close-up view of forensic science with a visit to Anglia Ruskin University's Cambridge campus. The students, studying either A-level Biology or BTEC Applied Science, were given the opportunity as part of National Science

  • Top spot for pianist

    RODING Valley High School student Johnny Mason has topped a whirlwind year of musical achievement by winning a place at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The Year 8 pupil started studying piano only just over a year ago and has already reached

  • Car park cash-in

    HOSPITAL bosses have defended the parking charges being levied at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow, after it emerged that the pay-and-display fees raised £318,164 in one financial year. The figures were revealed by the Department of Health under the

  • Dance winners make the right moves

    IT was strictly success for dancers from a Chingford school when they had a winning streak at a UK international contest. The ballroom and Latin dancers from Wright Rhythm Dance School snatched top places in a range of categories at the UK International

  • Stars show their handicaps at hospice charity golf day

    ACTOR Ray Winstone, snooker star Steve Davis and boxing promoter Barry Hearn were among the celebrities to test their talents over 18 holes at the Haven House Charity Golf Day. A total of 100 golfers teed-off at Woolston Manor Golf Club, Chigwell, helping

  • Double birthday celebrations

    LOCAL caterer Raspberry Ice and North Weald Golf Club are teeing off their birthday celebrations with a free champagne cocktail reception in the summer marquee to benefit local charities. Raspberry Ice, celebrating its fourth birthday, wants to make

  • 'Ban the learner drivers'

    A MAN who has campaigned to get rid of learner drivers from a South Woodford estate is pressing MPs to present a second petition to Parliament. Harry Cohen, MP for Wanstead, presented a petition to the Commons on January 16 which called for learner drivers

  • Councillor steps down

    ONE of Epping Forest's longest standing district councillors has retired. Joan Davis, a Labour councillor for Loughton for 30 years, said: "It's time for some young people." Mrs Davis, who was the council's first Labour chairman in 1994-95, said she