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BUCKHURST HILL: Child sex trial hears "strip poker" claim

8:31am Friday 5th September 2008

A WOMAN has told a court she was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a man.

EPPING FOREST: Self help group goes from strength to strength

9:08am Friday 5th September 2008

A SELF help group for prostate cancer patients is going from strength to strength.

WALTHAMSTOW: Charity's bid to cut homelessness

8:46am Friday 5th September 2008

A HOMELESS shelter is set to be transformed - if it can get planning permission.

WALTHAMSTOW: Mother pleads for hit-and-run culprit to come forward

Michael McLean was killed on his way to work

3:38pm Thursday 4th September 2008

THE mother of a hit-and-run victim has called for the culprit to hand themselves in, a year after her son's death.

WOODFORD GREEN: Parking protestor wins appeal

Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi at her protest

1:51pm Thursday 4th September 2008

AN irate motorist who chained herself to the railings of a vehicle pound after being fined £250 has won her parking appeal.

WALTHAMSTOW: Murder victim's father in plea to PM

8:46am Thursday 4th September 2008

THE father of murdered teenager CJ Hendricks is calling for direct action be taken to prevent more senseless deaths.

BUCKHURST HILL: Bar promises to keep the noise down

4:00pm Thursday 4th September 2008

A NOTORIOUSLY noisy nightspot has been granted a stay of execution after new management promised to keep the volume down.

LOUGHTON: X-Factor singer will perform with his band

3:31pm Thursday 4th September 2008

A SINGER who has reached the final stages of boot camp in the ITV X-Factor programme will be performing with his local band to raise money for charity.

BUCKHURST HILL: Family raise £6,000 in memory of son

2:59pm Thursday 4th September 2008

A FUNDRAISING family have donated more than £6,000 to a charity which helped their dying son.

EPPING FOREST: Roads get facelift treatment

12:06pm Thursday 4th September 2008

ROADS across the district have been resurfaced as part of £2.2m worth of highway schemes completed by Essex County Council last month.


National News

Call to replace Sats tests

Call for Sats tests to be scrapped in favour of functional skills tests

Updated 8:33am Friday 5th September 2008

National curriculum exams should be scrapped in favour of new functional skills tests, a teachers' leader has said.


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