ONE of the High Street's most colourful characters spent three days representing Walthamstow Market at the Cannes Film Festival. Frank Pittal, who has run a shoe stall in the High Street since 1992, was promoting a half-hour documentary called A Portrait
AS TWO Barkingside men suspected of planning acts of terrorism absconded from control orders, Home Secretary John Reid is considering stepping up security measures. Proposed changes to the Terrorism Bill put forward by the Home Office include measures
STEVENAGE Borough hitman Jon Nurse is set to join Dagenham & Redbridge. The 26-year-old striker is among three players manager John Still is hoping to sign within the next two weeks to boost his squad ahead of the club's first Football League campaign
THE Roding Rifle and Pistol Club has the 2012 Olympics in its sights. The Buckhurst Hill club, which has produced several national champions, is holding a visitor vouchered open day at its Loughton Way air rifle range on Sunday to give potential shooters
WALTHAM Forest Amateur Boxing Club (ABC) is continuing to have its best season for many years after securing their third champion of the campaign in a busy period for the Highams Park club. Brad "The Assassin" Anderson became the London Golden Belt Champion
NINETEEN-year-old Hogan Ephraim has signed a new 12-month contract at Upton Park. The England youth striker spent most of last season on loan at Colchester United but wants break into the West Ham first-team squad and is aiming to impress manager Alan
THERE were scenes of joy at the England Hockey Plate final for Old Loughtonians U18 boys team after they swept to a 4-0 victory at Bowdon Hockey Club. Two goals in each half made sure the Chigwell-based club cruised to victory last weekend against Wakefield
TICKETS for a series of events marking the life of the celebrated Woodford Green feminist, Sylvia Pankhurst, have gone on sale. Writer and academic Germaine Greer will one of a panel discussing the indefatigable Miss Pankhurst' on July 8 at Bancroft's
THERE may not be a Hammers fixture to whet the appetite of the growing army of Essex speedway fans this week, but the new promotional team are not taking a breather. In what is believed to be the first use of this imaginative advertising medium for a
"GREEN" charges for Controlled Parking Zones (CPZs) will be introduced in October. A three-tiered system will see charges doubled for cars with high CO2 emissions, and halved for more environmentally-friendly vehicles. Waltham Forest Council's cabinet
DANISH Kaneria is already causing concern among batsmen around the country, having bagged 29 county wickets this season. And he promises more troubled times ahead for willow wielders if his latest tactic proves successful. The 26-year-old has spent
Chingford 280-9(dec) Saffron Walden 89-3 (Premier League) CHINGFORD'S brilliant start to Premier League life continued with a third straight draw, although once again they were denied victory because of the rain. Home skipper Sam Kirnon won the
Old Brentwoods 215-a/o Ongar 95-a/o (Division Three) ONGAR'S poor start to the season continued after another poor batting display saw them lose by 120 runs to Old Brentwoods. Visiting skipper Dave Hetherington won the toss and asked the Old boys
ORION Harriers junior Danielle Sale scooped 5,000m bronze at the UK National Inter-Counties Senior Track and Field Championships in Bedford on Sunday. Sale, the Essex champion, was the youngest competitor in the race. While others wilted in the heavy
Hainault & Clayhall 140-9 Wanstead 76-2 (Premier League) RAIN halted play after the tea break and Wanstead had to be satisfied with nine points from a game they were favourites to win. Hainault and Clayhall were invited to bat first and struggled
Buckhurst Hill 132-5 Benfleet 131-a/o (Division Three) HILL secured their first league win of the season after grabbing a comfortable five-wicket success against Benfleet at Roding Lane. Home skipper Tim Scott won the toss and asked the visitors
Fives & Heronians 239-5(dec) Basildon & Pitsea 153-a/o (Division Two) FIVES stretched their lead at the top of the Division Two table following this 86-run drubbing of Basildon and Pitsea at the Paddock. The hosts found themselves invited to
Harold Wood 182-3 West Essex 177-a/o (Division Three) THE Rolls Park boys were unable to build on last week's win as they crashed to a heavy seven-wicket defeat at table topping Harold Wood. The visitors opened the batting and crashed to 177 all
South Woodford 186-5 Hornchurch 229-9(dec) (Division One) SOUTH were denied a certain victory over high-flying Hornchurch, after a heavy downpour brought a premature end to this Highfield Road clash. The visitors opened the batting and struggled
Old Southendians 193-3 Old Parkonians 189-a/o (Division Three) OLD Parkonians let slip a strong position as they crashed to an emphatic seven-wicket defeat at fellow old boys' Old Southendians on Saturday. Parks' opening pair of James Foley and
A Premiership star kept youngsters on their toes on the six week Feet 1st out-of-school football coaching course at Roding Valley High School, Loughton. Spurs defender Anthony Gardner joined the fledgling players, aged between five and 11, to help with
Buckhurst Hill A U-10s have won their first cup final and celebrated in style. Since the team have been playing together they have done well in competitions, but not well enough to lift a cup. But all that changed this month when Hill met Senrab in
Chingford Cricket Club's U-13 team, competing for the first time in the Essex Indoor Metropolitan Premier League, ended their campaign as runners up in the title race. A last match victory over Ilford secured their position and brought the players, pictured
IT was a hat-trick for Jill James when she lifted the Duncan Trophy for the third time at the Ladies' Spring meeting at Woodford Golf Club last week. James returned a 71 nett in the 18 holes strokeplay competition and also won the putting prize with
NO smoking, no drinking and no men are the secrets to a long life, according to a Leytonstone woman who has reached her 100th birthday. But Edith Roper, of Clifton House, Beachcroft Road, who never married, welcomed then Mayor Farooq Qureshi to her birthday
WEST Essex golfer Ross Spurgeon took third in the Chigwell Bowl and second in the Colts Championship at Chigwell Golf Club on Saturday. The recent winner of the Keating Trophy racked up two consistent rounds of 72 to finish third in the under-25 competition
ORIENT manager Martin Ling admitted this week that having offered improved terms to all six of the players that he wanted to secure on new contracts that only reserve keeper Glenn Morris has agreed to stay. And with Glyn Garner, Gary Alexander, Adam
ORIENT striker Gary Alexander has revealed his shock decision to turn his back on the O's after more than four years at Brisbane Road was solely for footballing reasons. The 27-year-old former West Ham trainee had been offered improved terms to stay
A CAMPAIGN to re-open St James's Street Library is underway. Residents have collected more than 1,200 signatures in a petition plus 120 from children in response to the council's decision to close the library as part of its budget cuts this year. "The
-Chigwell Boys U-13/14 require good, keen players now as present season has just ended. Playing in the B division of the very competitive Echo League we need a centre back, but all positions considered if player is of a good standard / potential or especially
THE family of Wanstead schoolteacher Sarah Flooks have blamed a catalogue of errors' by the police for leaving them without any answers for her untimely death. The criticism comes after an inquest at Walthamstow Coroners Court returned an open verdict
AN investigation is underway into the cause of a blaze at nursery premises in Paynes Lane, Nazeing, early this morning (Thursday). Crews from Harlow, Waltham Abbey and Epping were called out shortly before 2am to deal with three poly-tunnels which were
POLICE have released a picture of a man they believe may be responsible for taking indecent images of women in east London and Essex. The man was reported to police after he was seen at London Bridge station and a woman complained that she had been filmed
WEST Ham skipper Nigel Reo-Coker's future should be resolved in the next few weeks according to his advisor. The 22-year-old midfielder handed in a transfer request last week after an unsatisfactory meeting about his future with the the club's board.
HEALTH bosses are urging patients going into hospital to take all their usual medication with them in a distinctive green plastic bag. The bags are being used across Essex to make sure clinicians can see immediately what pills and medicines the patient
