SHAKESPEARE met the modern age when a school took part in a video conference. Pupils from West Hatch High School, in Chigwell High Road, joined six other schools from across Essex set the task of filming an extract from the bard's plays. After shooting
CONCERNS have been raised over Primary Care Trust plans to save money by altering prescriptions. NHS West Essex has admitted it needs to make large savings to avoid a potential £11million overspend this year and one area targeted is prescribed medicines
MORE details have emerged about the accident which has caused road closures and travel chaos in Ilford this afternoon. London Ambulance were called at just after 1:30pm to a road collision involving a blue van and a silver Peugeot car on Cranbrook
A HEALTHCARE company has raised more than £8,600 for Haven House children''s hospice. HCL Healthcare, based in Loughton, raised the cash for the hospice, in Woodford Green, through a number of sponsored activites, include dress down days, a summer ball
A YOUNG man has been hospitalised after suffering spinal injuries in a serious road accident in Ilford. Details of the incident are still emerging, but police have closed a section of the A123 Cranbrook Road in both directions, from Blenheim
THE organisers behind a popular town literary festival are holding a day dedicated to volunteering. As part of this year's Loughton Festival an event has been arranged to promote awareness of how volunteering can help charities, businesses and individuals
A TOWN'S baseball team will have a shining new grandstand in time for their start of season after they were successful in a grant application. The Essex Arrows, based at Town Mead Recreation Ground, in Waltham Abbey, have been awarded £12,000 from the
EPPING Forest College is making "reasonable" progress in improving its quality of education following a poor inspection report last summer, Ofsted has said. Last August the college, in Borders Lane, Loughton, was criticised by the education
FURTHER disruption is hitting commuters as the rush hour begins due to road closures following an earlier accident. Police have shut a section of the A123 Cranbrook Road in Ilford both ways between B192 Beehive Lane/Emerson Road and A12 Eastern
A MAN who was hit by a train at Walthamstow Central station yesterday is fighting for his life. Witnesses reported seeing the man step off the platform on to the rails and he was struck by an approaching train at about 2.50pm. He was
A TEENAGE boy was threatened, jostled and forced against a wall in an attack in which thieves netted just £1 and a condom, a court heard. Abu Hanifa, 19, of Holmbury View, Hackney and brothers Mohammed Rezwan Ali and Mohammed Ashraf Ali , 22
ARSENAL have been boosted by the news that defender Thomas Vermaelen has not suffered a fracture to his leg after scans gave the Belgian the all clear. The centre-half limped out of the Gunners’ goalless draw with Aston Villa on Wednesday, with fears
TOTTENHAM boss Harry Redknapp has confirmed that the club have signed Eidur Gudjohnsen on a six-month loan deal, thus ending West Ham’s hopes of landing the former Barcelona forward. Hammers co-owner David Sullivan revealed his anger at Spurs’ last-ditch
AN OPEN day is to be held at a popular community hall to celebrate its recent refurbishment. The Woollard Centre, in Loughton Way, Buckhurst Hill, will be open between 12 noon and 3pm on Friday February 5 to allow residents to look around its renovated
A SCOTTISH-THEMED night is to be held at Fyfield Village Hall this weekend to celebrate Burns night. The event, which starts at 7pm on Saturday (January 30) at the hall in Houchin Drive, Fyfield, will feature Scottish music, dancing, food and plenty
A BANK manager has denied stealing £17,700 from a customer's bank account. Janet Wylde,of Clementhorpe Road, Dagenham, who was the boss of Barclay's branches in Chingford and Barkingside, is accused of stealing the money from one account and
A MAN is set to take legal action against the police and its contractors after his new car was taken away without his consent and allegedly damaged. Martin Brown had just bought a Mazda MX5 when he parked it in the street near his home in Orford
HUNDREDS of people were caught watching TV without a licence in the Epping Forest district last year, new figures have revealed. According to data released today, Loughton has one of the worst rates in the area, with 159 households found dodging
COUNCILLORS and residents took a double-decker bus ride to City Hall to call for more police officers in Waltham Forest. Waltham Forest Council leader Chris Robbins, accompanied by councillors and residents with placards, made the visit to urge
ALMOST 2,000 people across the borough were caught watching television without a licence last year. The figures, released by TV licensing, show 1,905 fee evaders were caught in Redbridge in 2009. However, the borough had a far lower
AN ACCLAIMED author has spurned a film deal with Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp so the screen version of her novel can be made in London. Leytonstone resident Saci Lloyd turned down an offer from the heartthrob’s production company, Infinitum
AN ACCIDENT is causing severe disruption in the Ilford area. Severe delays are affecting traffic in both directions on the A123 Cranbrook Road, near the junction with the B192 Beehive Lane/Emerson Road. Diversions are also affecting the 66 bus.
WOMEN who want to set up their own girls football teams are being invited to sign up for a free training course. The West Essex School Sports Partnership and The Essex Women’s and Girls FA will run the pre-level one coaching course on Wednesday
EPPING Forest MP Eleanor Laing has added her name to a list of MPs pledging their unending support for Holocaust Memorial Day. Mrs Laing signed a 'Book of Commitment' vowing to always mark the annual event marking the Nazi genocide of the Second
THE LEADER of the council has highlighted the importance of remembering the lessons taught by the Holocaust, following yesterday's memorial service. Cllr Prince, along with Mayor Chan, Lee Scott MP and other local dignitaries joined survivors
A CAFÉ worker has said she would rather go to prison than pay a “petty” parking fine which was issued as she and her husband manoeuvred their cars in their own driveway. Denise Salthouse, 55, was slapped with a ticket after she parked for “
A KEEN amateur chef has become a dinner party host to the stars after his cooking skills featured in two TV shows. Peter Polledri, 33, who lives off Rectory Lane, in Loughton, has just finished filming for an up-and-coming ITV show starring
DISAGREEMENT exists over the location of the final section of a major cycle route. Plans to complete the Roding Valley Way through Wanstead were first put forward more than seven years ago as part of a scheme to improve cycling and walking links
ORIENT top scorer Scott McGleish has backed the team to be full of confidence for this weekend’s journey north. The O’s make the 645-mile round journey to take on Carlisle United at Brunton Park, in Cumbria, less than 10 miles from Scotland
PLANS to improve safety at two busy road junctions have been given the green light by councillors. Nineteen accidents - two of them serious - took place at a pair of heavily used mini-roundabouts in Aldersbrook between November 2005 and March
West Ham v Blackburn Rovers Upton Park Saturday, January 30, 3pm Last meeting: Blackburn 0-0 West Ham (29-08-09). The two sides played out a goalless draw at Ewood Park back in August. Incidentally, the Hammers have only kept two clean sheets since
THE district's Primary Care Trust is facing up to a massive end of year overspend with millions of pounds in savings now necessary. NHS West Essex is currently £1.864million over-budget with overspends on services provided by Whipps Cross and Princess
THE steel structure of the 2012 velodrome is now complete, as Olympic bosses say the venue will open on time early next year. The velodrome, near the Leyton/Stratford border on the Olympic Park, will have 6,000 seats and will host indoor cycling events
MORE than 2,000 Waltham Forest residents were caught watching television without a licence in 2009. The figures, released by TV licensing, show the borough had the 15th highest number of caught fee evaders out of London's 33 boroughs.
WEST HAM co-owner David Sullivan has expressed his anger at Tottenham’s attempts to pry Monaco striker Eidur Gudjohnsen from under their noses after the Icelandic international underwent a medical at Upton Park. BBC Sport claim the former Barcelona forward
IF you liked Gosford Park and Upstairs Downstairs then you may want to take a peek at the talk Housekeeping in an English Country Home at Valentines Mansion next Friday, 10.30am-noon. Discover what it really was like working within the privileged walls
Set on a large plot with 100’ frontage to Meadow Way, in the heart of Chigwell’s prestigious Courtland Estate, this superb five-bedroom home has been totally refurbished and modernised throughout in recent years and is a truly amazing family home
FOUR actors, 28 characters, the sums don’t quite add up. But then that’s half the fun of Giles Havergal’s fast-paced comic staging of Graham Greene’s Travels with my Aunt, which arrives at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch next Friday. With some swift
AS the latest bunch of desperate lycra-clad celebrities try in vain to save their final bit of dignity as they slip and slide across the rink live on Dancing on Ice, the real athletes are preparing themselves for next month’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver
ALL aboard, as the Wanstead Players pull into the Kenneth More Theatre, with their production of The Ghost Train from Thursday, February 4. Written by Arnold Ridley (aka Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army) in 1923, the play revolves around a party of passengers
Two artists from different poles – abstract and figurative – are exhibiting in Mortal/Immortal at Hoxton’s Signal Gallery. The figure is represented in all its reality and mortality by Royal Scottish Academy artist Crawfurd Adamson. “This collection
FOR many actors, the idea of putting on a mask and playing somebody else is what attracts them to the profession. For writer, performer and cult cabaret star Ursula Martinez being on stage is all about taking the mask, or to put it my pointedly, her clothes
COMPERE Simon Clayton, once described by Loaded magazine as, “like a bottle of HP sauce, fat, brown and fruity”, introduces a line-up of top stand up comedians at Downstairs at the King’s Head, in Crouch End, on Saturday. Acts include Gareth Richards
POLICE are hunting the driver of a car involved in a crash which left an elderly man with serious injuries. The smash, in The Plain, Epping, happened just before 4pm yesterday (Wednesday). Police say a blue Rover 800 failed to stop at
GET involved and help dismantle the Do It With Others (DIWO) e-Mail-Art exhibition at the HTTP Gallery in Wood Green on Saturday, between 3pm-5pm. The group show, which featured the various correspondances between artists, technologists, writers and
CALLING all wannabe Spielbergs, Scorseses and Coppolas, you have just over two weeks to submit your work to the Youth Film Festival. In its fourth year, the youth day forms part of the four-day International Short Film Festival at the Cineworld cinema
SHOWMAN Tony Jacobs pays tribute to the great American composer George Gershwin, and his brother, the lyricist Ira Gershwin, with an evening of music, anecdotes and humour at the Millfield Arts Centre, Thursday, January 28, 8pm. Joined by local singer
ADAM Bridgland is a busy man. He has dashed back from the Tate Modern where he works as an art handler to meet me at Jealous Gallery and Print Studio, in Crouch End, where he is gallery assistant, to discuss his work as an artist. Add to that schedule
PEOPLE available for work and in need of some extra cash are being offered the chance to help the council prepare for the 2011 census. Redbridge Council is offering the jobs to residents to take advantage of their extensive local knowledge
MY personal experience of the violin extends to ducking for cover whenever those tell-tell screeching sounds of my sister’s music practice filled the house. But far from berating her for assaulting my eardrums, north London violinist Thomas Gould informs
RESIDENTS using one of the borough's most popular parks are being asked for their views on how to improve facilities, with a chance of winning a prize worth £100. People from all over Redbridge can complete the survey on Roding Valley Park,
THE GREEN Man Tunnel will be partly closed for engineering work tonight (Thursday). The tunnel, which carries the A12 underneath the Green Man Roundabout, will be shut westbound from 10.00pm this evening until 5.00am tomorrow morning.
JESSICA SPARKE delivered one of the finest races of her career to finish on the podium in the penultimate McCain International Cross Challenge event in Antrim. The Woodford Green with Essex Ladies athlete has announced herself as one of the world’s most
NEW WEST Ham owners David Gold and David Sullivan bore witness to their first game in charge against Portsmouth at Fratton Park in midweek, and they would have been largely impressed by what they saw. There were chances aplenty for the Hammers, with
A RADIO DJ who was sacked after calling a Redbridge Councillor a 'Nazi' during an on-air debate - has won the right to challenge a ruling made against him by the broadcasting watchdog. Jon Gaunt had his contract terminated by Talksport after
GOOD services are running on all of London's tube lines this morning (Thursday). Commuters should face a relatively straightforward journey into work today after no problems were reported across the network. See the Guardian website
OLD LOUGHTONIANS Hockey Club had plenty to celebrate at the weekend after their under-18 men’s team made it to the final of the National Indoor Championships after an absorbing semi-final that went right down to the wire. The team, who had already been
WEST HAM’S match against Manchester United at Old Trafford on February 27 has been postponed after Sir Alex Ferguson’s side made it through to the Carling Cup final, to be staged on February 28. United defeated Manchester City 3-1 to progress to the
ARSENAL defender Thomas Vermaelen suffered a suspected broken leg during an entertaining goalless draw against Aston Villa at Villa Park. The Belgian centre-half limped off during the first half, with Sol Campbell coming on in his place. It did not look
