DETECTIVES investigating the murder of Joe Shipton, who was battered to death at his home in The Plashets, Sheering, have appealed for information through the BBC Crimewatch programme. Mr Shipton, 61, who lived alone, was found at the bottom of the stairs
A STOCKPILE of ammunition was seized by police during a raid on a hostel for disadvantaged young people. Two men in their twenties were arrested and another is being sought after 50 officers swooped on the Focus E15 foyer in Brimstone House, which
FOUR men arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Polish man in Epping Forest ten months ago have been released on police bail. Rafal Czapczyk, 28, from Gdynia, Poland, was shot near the Wake Road car park, High Beech, on July 15 last year. But it was
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THE noise of screaming women and screeching cars emanating from a neighbouring car park has made the lives of residents in an Epping sheltered housing complex a misery. Eileen Kelly, 73, who has lived at Bakers Villas for eight years, said: "You go to
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A DISTRICTWIDE search for the district's 50 favourite trees will be officially launched at Theydon Bois Village Hall, Coppice Row, at a public meeting at 7.30pm on Wednesday, May 31. Everyone is welcome at the meeting to find out more about the Guardian-backed
Ah, the joys of satire: a chance to pop the inflated egos of the rich, famous and infamous, not with sledgehammer subtlety, but intelligence, wit and creativity. Imagination and social comment go hand in hand in the Museum of London's show on 300 years
RETURNING for another term as mayor of Waltham Abbey, Syd Stavrou was in upbeat mood about the future of the town. Mrs Stavrou said she was "extremely pleased and honoured" to be elected, having first served as mayor in 2000-01. She takes over from Antony
The White Lion 11 Sun Street Waltham Abbey Essex EN9 1ER Tel: 01992 718673 There is a fine picture of a man riding a penny farthing just inside the door of the White Lion. He is wearing a cap, a striped jumper and socks and is a reminder of
The Station House 134 Station Road Chingford London E4 6AN Tel: 020 8529 8576 It's almost exactly two years ago that I was congratulating Wizard Inns for choosing a historically relevant name, Thomas Willingale, for its new pub which replaced
Len Banister dwells on the past and glimpses the future Greenwich and the area around the Dome are going to provide important facilities for the Olympics so in this, the fourth in the series of walking the bid we take the opportunity firstly of taking
Video game programmer Ethan Jarlewski and five of his colleagues are stuck in the JPod, a dead zone outpost of a mindless technology corporation. Supposedly, they are there to work on a video game, to follow the mindless orders of marketing managers
Artist - Gnarls Barkley Album - St Elsewhere Label - Wea It is easy to see why someone might be interested in this disc, given how catchy the lead single, Crazy, is. But, give thanks to iTunes or other download services that you can download that
Artist - Gomez Album - How We Operate Label - RCA It is some time now since Gomez made a truly essential disc. The band that got really big really quickly with singles like Whippin' Piccadilly and Get Myself Arrested started to spin the discs out
A WHOPPING £120m could be saved by ditching one of the two European parliament buildings. Walthamstow-based MEP Jean Lambert has spoken up in support of a campaign to halt the expense. The London Green MEP said that moving 700 MEPs, their staff, officials
STUDENTS from primary and secondary schools came together for a special performance based on forming friendships across each other's cultures. Seven schools and 80 pupils gathered at Leyton Sixth Form College theatre last night for a production based
SCHOOLBOY heroes saved two elderly women in the path of a train at the busy Highams Park level crossing. The women, both in their 80s, were trapped behind the closing barriers after they fell over in Hale End Road. With just seconds before the train
A STORM is brewing over plans for a mobile phone mast on a church opposite a primary school. The plans, which involve building a T-Mobile base station in the spire of SS Peter and Paul Church on the Green, Chingford, have met huge opposition from neighbours
GARAGES being used as brothels, street crime and anti-social behaviour will be some of the issues a Walthamstow police officer has promised to tackle. PC Mike Nicolaou, the newest member of the Hoe Street Safer Neighbourhoods team, has been given the
MOTHERS in Waltham Forest are helping other women breastfeed their babies by offering them support and advice. A new training programme supported by Whipps Cross University Hospital is allowing local women who have breastfed to give information to new
A WALTHAMSTOW shopping centre is the place to be if you want to be part of a happy workforce. The Selborne Walk centre, owned by the Mall group, has come in the top 50 of the UK's best places to work survey for 2006. Ranked in 29th place, the centre
RESIDENTS can have fun in the forest this summer thanks to a new and varied programme of events. Open-air performances in Wanstead Park, craft activities at the Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge, and midsummer storytelling are just some of the activities
AT the local council elections on May 4, British National Party (BNP) candidate Julian Leppert won more votes than any other candidate in Hainault ward. He will, along with two Conservative councillors, represent the people of Hainault in the Redbridge
A WOODFORD Bridge woman walked away with the keys to a new car after winning a competition in a national newspaper. Jackie Phipps picked up the £7,600 Fiat Punto Grande from dealer Glyn Hopkin in Buckhurst Hill after learning the day before her birthday
POLICE in Redbridge are hoping to build on the success of the borough's knife amnesty in February as a new national amnesty comes into force. Bins where weapons can be dumped anonymously will be at each station in the borough by the end of tomorrow (
THE boyfriend of missing Wanstead teacher Sarah Flooks has denied being in the frame for her murder. A headline in the Evening Standard newspaper on Monday claimed John Mouzouros believed the discovery of Miss Flooks's personal diary cleared him of being
LARKSWOOD Tang Soo Do club achieved an impressive 14-medal haul at the Central Championships in Watford. The club were competing with teams from places including Sligo in Ireland and Edinburgh and were up against 300 other entrants which included a 100
WALTHAM Forest Spitfires Basketball Club are on the lookout for new players for the upcoming season. The team are hoping to recruit players under the age of 16 to play in the National South Conference. The team achieved a respectable top-half finish
Develop 2 Frenford 1 (Echo League Cup U13): It was a very big day in the history of Develop football club. The team approached the Echo League Cup final as underdogs having lost to league champions, Frenford, twice already this season. The game got
THE Lee Valley Lions ice hockey team have announced that Deryk Beeson is their new manager for the 2006/07 season. After a difficult English National Ice Hockey League campaign last year Beeson said: "I enjoy a challenge and the more the odds are against
SIX local golfers are chasing glory in Europe's biggest pro-am competition, the Lombard Trophy. West Essex amateur Bill Chard and his club's PGA professional Robert Joyce, as well as Woolston Manor amateur Andrew Wilder and pro Paul Barham and Wanstead's
Ongar Juniors U10s 3. Springfield 0 (Chelmsford Youth League U10 Knock-Out Cup): Ongar sealed the double this season with an excellent performance in this cup final. Ongar took an early lead when skipper Jordan Albert drilled the ball towards the goal
ETON Manor Athletic Club had their first presentation for a Jack Petchey award. The award went to Nelkita Akintade for all her work and effort with the coaching sessions. Eton Manor's young athletes travelled to Dartford on Sunday for their first UKA
FOREST Athletic women, the combined team of Eton Manor and Orion Harriers, won their team event at Hemel Hempstead while the men's team achieved a respectable fourth place at Watford. In the senior women's match, there were wins for Nekita Akintade and
WOODFORD athletes won seven gold medals at the Loughborough International meeting. All the triumphant male athletes will be competing for the European Champions Clubs' Cup in Turkey this weekend and also at the British Athletic League Premiership match
ORION junior athletes took part in the second leg of the Essex Track and Field Championships at Chelmsford. In the U13s girls 800m Lauren MacGregor finished sixth and Roseanne Ampofo came fifth in the 75m. In the boys division Alex Gordon ran well enough
LOUGHTON AC men and women's teams both achieved second place finishes in their League competition. The wet weather meant difficult conditions for the athletes, but in the men's match at Watford, Gurmukh Sahans posted wins in the 110m hurdles (17.1s),
WEST Ham captain Nigel Reo-Coker will look back on his week's training with the England squad as more valuable experience', despite being forced to pull out of the standby squad with injury, writes Laura Burkin. The 22-year-old midfielder suffered a
LEYTON Orient captain John Mackie this week spoke of his delight at winning the Supporters Club's Star Man and Away Player of the Season awards and also took the opportunity to urge defensive sensation Gabby Zakuani to remain at Brisbane Road next season
WOODFORD and Epping-based karate club Shikon saw two of it sides fare well in the inter-club Southern England Junior Karate League. Woodford Warlords have won the Division One title after edging out rivals Epping Gangsters. The team won the title on
DAGGERS will be playing host to Millwall as part of their pre-season programme of friendlies this summer. The South London side, now under the managership of former Chelsea and Liverpool star Nigel Spackman, will visit Victoria Road on July 22. It will
CLAPTON co-manager Jim Hendry signalled wholesale changes at the Old Spotted Dog this summer, writes Ross Davies. Hendry admitted that two-thirds of the squad' will leave in the summer, with ten to 12 new players coming the other way. The 45-year-old
LEYTON FC's promotion ambitions for next season have been boosted by the confirmation of a pre-season friendly with Conference giants Cambridge United, writes Ross Davies The fixture will be played at Leyton Stadium on August 5 before the new season
JUST over a fortnight after the club's historic promotion, Orient manager Martin Ling has already received his first summer boost with the news that the club's three out-of-contract players look set to sign new deals at Brisbane Road, writes Peter King
NEWHAM Amateur Boxing Club (ABC) staged their annual dinner show at the Circus Tavern in Purfleet with a knock-out success. Jack Davis, 12, got the Stratford-based club off to a winning start in a toe-to-toe contest with Shildon's Steven Price. Both
THIS is my last column for the season and I have to say what a fantastic campaign it has been. There have been so many highs, the main ones of course being winning promotion and the FA Cup run we had. Having been here for eight years, I'm so glad
THORPE Hall Primary School pair Daniel Barton and Katie Randall proved a splashing success at the Waltham Forest inter-borough Primary School Diving Competition held at the Walthamstow Pool and Track. The year six pupils, both 11, walked off with first
AFTER finishing fourth in their first season in London Two North, Chingford Rugby Club's first XV rounded off a successful campaign by embarking on a short tour of Cyprus. With the trip taking in two games against local opposition, one man who grabbed
CHINGFORD based Heathcote Table Tennis club desperately need a sponsor. Contact either Ken Levin on 0208 530 5235/07958 519091 or Mick Cock on 0208 550 2305 . Meanwhile the Waltham Forest Table Tennis League end-of-season honours were virtually dominated
CHRISTIAN Dailly believes the only hangover' West Ham will have from the FA Cup final is one of a deeper hunger to do even better next year, writes Laura Burkin. The Scottish international said that the experience gained by the squad, not only from the
HAMMERS stars Danny Gabbidon, James Collins, Carl Fletcher and Shaka Hislop will be meeting up with each other as they take part in a friendly between Wales and Trinidad and Tobago this weekend, writes Laura Burkin. The Welsh trio will be playing against
HAMMERS boss Alan Pardew gets set to be linked with a host of players over the summer months as he aims to strengthen his squad, writes Laura Burkin. But with a forthcoming season that sees the return of European football, he has spoken of how fans can
EPPING wil be looking to take their strong end-of-season form into Saturday's Denny King Cup final clash with Ongar. Manager Ian Corner knows his side will face a tough challenge from Ongar, who lost only one league match this season. But Corner can
THE season might have just finished, but Waltham Abbey's players have already been given a date to return for pre-season training on June 27. And it is now confirmed that Abbey will be playing in the Isthmian League Division One (North) next season following
West Essex 155-a/o Billericay 207-5 (dec) (Division Two) ON a rain-hit afternoon at Rolls Park West Essex failed to build on their opening-day success as they slipped to a 52-run defeat against Billericay. The visitors won the toss and elected to
Walthamstow 138-10 Horndon-on-the Hill 222-6 (Division Two) WALTHAMSTOW were unable to build on their opening win and crashed to a heavy 84-run defeat at Buck Walk at the hands of Horndon-on-the Hill. Having won the toss home skipper Greg
Woodford Wells 207-5 Chelmsford 204-6 (dec) (Division One) WOODFORD Wells swept to the top of the table after managing to secure a win from this rain-hit game at the Monkhams against Chelmsford on Saturday. The visitors opened the batting
G Park & Romford 204-7 South Woodford 86-6 (Premier League) IN A rain-reduced match South Woodford clung on for a draw at table-topping Gidea Park and Romford, when a batting collapse almost cost them for holding out for a draw and six
Saffron Walden 182-4 Loughton 179-8 (dec) (Premier League) LOUGHTON slumped to the foot of the Premier League table after suffering their second successive league defeat of the new campaign. At 2005 Premier League winners Saffron Walden
TWO local golf clubs remain on track to win the 2006 Leslie F Wood Championship after wins in their second-round matches on Sunday to make it through to the last 16. Chigwell travelled to local rivals North Weald and came away with a comfortable 10.5
Ongar 95-a/o Stanf'd-le-Hope 151-a/o (Division Three) ONGAR crashed to a second successive league dfeat after a poor batting display saw them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at home to Stanford-le-Hope. Home captain Steve Reynolds
Chingford 175-4 Hornchurch 254-4 (dec) (Division One) CHINGFORD'S rain-hit match with Hornchurch at Forest Side ended in a stalemate. Home captain Shaun McMurray won the toss and elected to bowl. Unfortunately for Chingford this decision
THE rain played havoc with the second weekend of the Shepherd Neame cricket League season on Saturday, although in the end it was only four sides who saw their games completely washed out. In the Premier League Wanstead remained second in the table despite
FOR the second week running High Beach's bowling attack secured a home victory in the Herts and Essex Cricket League Division Two, this time over Langley. Skipper Mickey Bear once again lost the toss on a wet difficult pitch and High Beach were obliged
Fives & Her'ns 111-a/o Westcliff-on-Sea 115-3 (Division One) IN DAMP and very overcast conditions at the Paddock Fives slipped to a heavy defeat at the hands of Westcliff-on-Sea after a poor batting display. The hosts won the toss and
JUST over a week ago, Newham-born Ravinder Bopara recorded a maiden one-day century at Taunton that took Essex to the top of the Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy South Conference and now the 21-year-old is hoping that further match-winning hundreds will
REDBRIDGE has a new mayor in the shape of Conservative Cranbrook ward councillor Ashok Kumar, who was elected unopposed at a ceremony in Ilford Town Hall. Cllr Kumar has worked both as a teacher and for the Inland Revenue, and finished top of the poll
DELICIOUS food was sampled at a fun day to raise money for a lift at St Mary's Church. Thai food, Hungarian meat balls, roast pork baps, jacket potatoes and hotdogs were just some of the many scrumptious dishes on the menu, donated by church committee
