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Just another busy night on the town

7:11pm Thursday 24th July 2008

Guardian reporter JAMES COLASANTI swaps a Saturday night in front of the TV for a shift alongside Epping Forest's new police commander, Chief Inspector Jonathan Baldwin

A serious business, but still room for fun

Pippa and Ola Czarnowska with Renzo during the toy-making workshop

5:14pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

ENVIRONMENTAL issues were to the fore at the annual Green Fair - but the seriousness of the topic did not stop people of all ages having lots of fun.

Reaping the reward of working the land

Albert Coleman with a bed of sweetcorn

10:30am Friday 18th July 2008

FROM marigolds to methi, cho-cho to carrots, Higham Hill Common Allotments are growing it all.

Going under in George Lane

Reporter Crystal Wilde tries hypnotherapy with Claire Atkinson

2:10pm Monday 2nd June 2008

THE art of hypnotism can be traced back to the ancient Greeks, but is now more popular than ever before and is enjoying a renaissance on television at least, in programmes by Derren Brown and Paul McKenna.

Idyllic setting to say goodbye to loved ones

Kate Adie officially opens the woodland burial park

9:10am Monday 19th May 2008

Epping is one of the few places in the country which has a 'green' woodland burial park. EMILY ROBERTS met Kate Adie at its official opening.

Is gender really so instrumental?

The new face of music at Bankcroft's School

3:50pm Wednesday 23rd April 2008

MOST parent's heart will sink when their teenager says: "I want to learn the electric guitar."

Leaving a lasting impression

ARTISTIC FAMILY: Lucien Pissarro with his daughter Orovida	 (Courtesy of the Stern Pissarro Gallery)

10:02am Friday 19th January 2007

IN a modest cottage in Epping, the painter and bookmaker Lucien Pissarro brought together two of the pivotal artistic movements of the late 19th century.

Mother of all issues

9:00am Sunday 17th December 2006

Reporter Hannah Crown, a 25-year-old fully westernised woman, attended a meeting of a Muslim women's group to hear what they had to say about integration.

One very high jump for charity

11:00am Saturday 16th December 2006

A SOUTH Woodford girl took to the skies to raise £1,700 for a Waltham Forest Parkinson's charity.

Back on the scene

Back on song: Ocean Colour Scene

10:16am Thursday 14th December 2006

IT'S now ten years since Ocean Colour Scene sailed on the crest of a wave with The Riverboat Song.


National News

Brown hails Anglican bishops' march

Gordon Brown talks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams

Updated 6:04pm Thursday 24th July 2008

Gordon Brown has hailed a march of hundreds of the world's religious leaders, calling for urgent action to tackle global poverty, as "the greatest public demonstration of faith" Britain has ever seen.


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