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  • Cresswell off Premier League mark as Hammers win

    Aaron Cresswell netted his first Premier League to send West Ham back up to fifth in the table following a 1-0 win over ten-man Newcastle United. The former Ipswich Town defender netted the decisive contribution in the 56th minute to give Sam Allardyce

  • Man charged after loaded machine gun seized by police

    A Walthamstow man has been charged with possessing a machine gun. Reice Bari, 24, of Hitcham Road, Walthamstow, is accused of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and possession of ammunition. He was due to appear at Highbury Magistrates

  • Orient beaten by Bantams

    Ten-man Leyton Orient - which has been written far too many times this season – sit outside of the League 1 relegation zone by just goal difference after the O’s suffered a disappointing 3-1 defeat at Bradford City. Billy Knott had tapped the Bantams

  • Reverend appeals for war victims' names

    Ian Tarrant is the Rector at St Mary’s Church in High Road, South Woodford. In August, when the world was remembering the centenary of the start of the First World War, rector Tarrant started a campaign to collect the names of those who died in

  • Ugandan choir inspires on visit to school

    A world-renowned African choir visited a school this week as part of its world tour.  The African Children's Choir started their UK tour earlier this month and on Tuesday, it visited Bancroft’s school, in High Road, Woodford Green. The choir

  • Dame Diana Rigg and Charles Dance to perform A Christmas Memory

    So quickly did the first LIFT festival fundraising reading of Truman Capote‘s A Christmas Memory with Mark Rylance and Juliet Stevenson sell out, that a second has been organised with two other great luminaries of the stage, Dame Diana Rigg and Charles

  • Planning applications submitted for Wanstead and Woodford

    Here are the planning applications filed with Redbridge council this week: Mr. H Zamurrad: Single storey rear extension with a depth of 6 metres, highest point of 4 metres and height at the eaves of 3 metres. 3, Colebrooke Drive, Wanstead.