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Drought over for school
STAFF at Wellington Primary School are celebrating the news that a new water main will be laid outside the school in January. Following months of disruption that has seen the school in Wellington Avenue, Chingford, close five times since May because
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Airport hails new cab crime scheme
SECURITY and crime fighting at Stansted Airport is being stepped up with 150 taxi drivers having been recruited to help police and the airport authorities reduce and detect crime in and around the airport. Airportcarz correcthas more than 80 vehicles
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Murder hunt continues a year after double killing
A YEAR on from the murder of two Chigwell businessmen, police are renewing their appeal for information. Police on Friday carried out enquiries in Forest Gate, east London, close to the spot where Amarjit, 52, and his nephew Rajinder Singh, 35, were
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Golf buggy smash
THIEVES stole and crashed a buggy at Hainault Forest Golf Club. Three young men were seen entering one of the sheds of the club in Romford Road at around 1.30pm on Monday, August 23, and coming out with a set of keys to one of the golf buggies
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None in a million
IT'S official. There are no properties in Waltham Forest that have been sold for £1 million or more. Out of London's 32 boroughs, Waltham Forest is one of just four that have no millionaire households, according to the latest Land Registry figures
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Health concern over airport
THE lack of independent studies on airport expansion could compromise community health, according to one of Stop Stansted Expansion's campaigners. According to a comment column in the medical journal The Lancet, the health of the community runs the
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History online
ANYONE who wants to take a quick dip into the history of the area can do so on a website called Virtual Chingford. The website can be found at www.samdar.demon.co.uk and provides many unusual historical facts about the town. For example, the name Chingford
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Problems of firestarters and hoaxers
SHOCK new figures show that two-thirds of fires in Waltham Forest last year were started deliberately. Figures released in a report by the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority reveal that 66 per cent of blazes in the borough 1,175 out of a
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Lat'll do nicely
RYANAIR has announced eight new international daily routes, including three new daily routes from Stansted (two to Spain and one to Latvia). They will commence between September 20 and December 1. The addition brings Ryanair's UK network to 104 low-fare
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Post is not good over E're
THE postal service in Waltham Forest is one of the worst performing in the UK. The 'E' postcode, which covers the borough, was ranked in the top five of the country's poorest performing areas between April and June this year, figures released by Postwatch
