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EPPING FOREST: Council has investments with Icelandic bank

3:48pm Friday 10th October 2008

EPPING Forest District Council has confirmed that it has £2.5m invested with the Heritable Bank, a subsidiary of the Icelandic Landsbanki Group.

WALTHAMSTOW: Daylight beating leaves man unconscious

3:09pm Friday 10th October 2008

MUGGERS beat a man unconscious in broad daylight.

REDBRIDGE: Murder investigation reward offered

2:15pm Friday 10th October 2008

POLICE are offering a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for a murder outside the Blue Ice bar on Cranbrook Road, Ilford.

WOODFORD GRN: Family claim victory over disabled man's care

Matthew Brook and his sister Helen Coughlan

2:10pm Friday 10th October 2008

THE family of a severely disabled man claim they have finally won a battle to secure funding for his complex care needs.

New police team for station

11:48am Friday 10th October 2008

WALTHAMSTOW is one of 30 locations across the capital which will receive extra transport police, it has been announced.

LEYTONSTONE: Cool summer brings banana bonanza

Sonia Dixon with her mother Theresa and the banana plant, which has got her neighbours talking

11:03am Friday 10th October 2008

DESPITE a wet and disappointing summer, a green-fingered enthusiast has succeeded in growing tropical fruit in her garden.

Outstanding 'life catcher' receives international acclaim

One of Carole Edrich’s winning entries taken under the Green Man roundabout

10:39am Friday 10th October 2008

A GIFTED snapper has received special acclaim in an international photography competition.

BUCKHURST HILL: Vandals ordered to repair damage

10:15am Friday 10th October 2008

VANDALS who started a fire in a nature reserve and destroyed a bridge have been ordered to repair the damage.

REDBRIDGE: Fishermen rubbish report that river is drying up

Fisherman Mike Smith says he is worried about the large amount of reeds and poor maintenance of the River Roding in Woodford, but does not believe it

10:20am Friday 10th October 2008

FISHERMEN along the banks of Redbridge’s River Roding have slammed an ‘alarming’ new government report which suggests it could run dry over the next 50 years.

WANSTEAD: Worldwide support for 'metric martyr'

Market trader Janet Devers is determined to fight on

9:40am Friday 10th October 2008

OFFERS of help from around the world have flooded in for a market trader faced with court costs of nearly £5,000 for selling fruit in pounds rather than kilos.


National News

Mother accused of killings remanded

Sasikala Navaneethan has been charged with the murder of her son and daughter

Updated 1:06am Saturday 11th October 2008

A mother accused of stabbing her son and daughter to death at their home has appeared in court.


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