Sara Dixon

FOUR years ago Lizzie Neal spent her days housebound and confined to a wheelchair.

A FRAIL grandfather of six spent his last hours locked in a stiflingly hot bedroom as thieves made off with his savings, a coroner's court heard.

IT'S official. Redbridge, if anybody hadn't noticed, is in the grip of a heatwave.

SITTING under a huge bank of 31 continually changing screens, a computer operator zooms in on a licence plate so closely that the numbers fill the screen as the driver travels the streets of Redbridge.

FIRST Little Britain comedian David Walliams put the English Channel back on the charity map as he swam across its chilly waters for Sport Relief and now, after a year of preparation, a charity fundraiser from Redbridge will attempt to cross the channel underwater.

IT'S official. Redbridge, if anybody hadn't noticed, is in the grip of a heatwave.

FIRST Little Britain comedian David Walliams put the English Channel when swam across its chilly waters for Sport Relief and now a charity fundraiser from Redbridge will attempt to cross the channel - underwater.

IT MAY have taken a year of plugging away and improving her skills but the 50 year-old mother-of-two made it.

THE leader of Redbridge Council, Cllr Alan Weinberg, has laid down the gauntlet to criminals, flytippers, himself and to every other resident in the borough.

REDBRIDGE was just 157 votes short of getting its second British National Party (BNP) councillor in the Bridge by-election last Thursday.