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  • Soul-inspired brasserie opens in empty pub building

    A venue formerly notorious for violence and under-age drinking has been transformed into a high-end brasserie selling soul-food and cocktails.  Bojangles Brasserie in Old Church Road, Chingford, will officially open to the public next weekend after

  • ‘Being gassed always affected him’

    Alec Davidson served in the Dragoon Guards in his 20s and was already in the regular army in 1914 at the outbreak of the war. His daughter, Ethel McGovern, 91, from High Road, Loughton, still has her father’s cigarette tin which was issued to soldiers

  • Hammers clinch Crystal Palace win

    Summer signing Mauro Zarate volleyed a debut goal in West Ham's 3-1 Premier League victory at Crystal Palace to ease the pressure on manager Sam Allardyce. Stewart Downing and Carlton Cole also fired home as the Hammers eased past the managerless