THE council's handling of a Walthamstow Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) has caused "real misery" according to ward councillors. The CPZ, which covers streets in William Morris ward including Winns Terrace and Winns Avenue, has been contested
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a new school on Leyton Cricket Ground may not be legal without the permission of the Charity Commission (CC), according to one of its officials. The council plans to merge three schools to create a 1,700 "learning
HE'S the apprentice who said ‘you’re fired’ to Sir Alan Sugar. Chigwell entrepreneur Adam Freeman, who runs the loans website www.mrlender.com, dropped out of the hit TV show hours before it started, avoiding the media circus that was about
AN ancient tradition marking out the boundaries of Lammas Land takes place next Sunday (May 17). Ten Thegns, who are traditionally responsible for ensuring no-one is murdered during the walk, are elected before the stroll around Leyton Marshes
SQUATTERS could still be living in the roof of a Walthamstow block of flats despite repair work to secure it, a tenant claims. Aydan Ulugun, 30, says she has been able to hear footsteps in the cavity above her flat in Stocksfield Road, Walthamstow
A RAFT of Championship and League One clubs are ready to pounce for Dagenham and Redbridge defender Magnus Okuonghae, according to reports. Sky Sports understands that the powerful centre-half will the subject of much interest over the summer, while
TOTS turned traffic cops for the day to target speeding motorists outside their school. Leverton Junior School pupils Luke Crisci, Rebecca Kirk and Hayley Square teamed up with road safety officers to catch wreckless drivers on Honey Lane on
FAST-FOOD giant Kentucky Fried Chicken is to launch one its first stores offering a strictly halal menu in Leyton. The Lea Bridge Road branch is one of eight stores nationwide to be part of a trial to sell only meat that has been prepared in
HUNDREDS of people enjoyed live music, dance, theatre and fashion at an annual festival at the University of East London (UEL) Docklands campus. Mayfest included performances from the Nostalgia Steel band, Serafina Dance Group, singer Shonanis
LEYTON Orient Community Sports Partnership (LOCSP) will be organising holiday sports sessions for children and young people later this month. From May 25 (Bank Holiday Monday) to May 29 there will be a range of activites at various venues,
MOVIE stars are in Waltham Abbey to shoot scenes for a new British comedy. Award-winning Timothy Spall and screen-siren Honor Blackman - who famously played Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger - are among the actors on location at a farm house off Sewardstone
THE opening of controversial new polyclinics could spell the end for traditional GP practices, the chair of NHS Waltham Forest has said. Speaking at the newly opened Oliver Road Polyclinic in Leyton, chairman Cllr Afzal Akram said: “The days
A DISABLED patient said she suffered “an absolute screaming nightmare” when visiting Waltham Forest’s flagship GP ‘super surgery’. Flash Bristow, 33, visited one of the walk-in clinics offered at the centre in Oliver Road, Leyton, three days
SWINE flu has hit the district with its first case confirmed by authorities. NHS West Essex has said that a man in his 30s, from North Weald, has been diagnosed with the virus. He is said to be responding well to treatment at his home.
LITTER pickers cleaned up a park as part of a scheme to encourage residents to tackle environmental issues impacting their community. This morning, volunteers wearing high visibility jackets joined officers from Waltham Forest’s Safer Neighbourhood
AN after school children’s club hopes take its place in history when it joins the attempt to host the world’s biggest simultaneous picnic. Debden After School Club hopes to host the picnic, in Jessel Drive, Loughton, from 12.30pm on Monday, May 25.
TWO men who attempted to smuggle nearly half-a-million pounds worth of cocaine hidden in pot plants have been jailed for a total of 32 years. At Chelmsford Crown Court on Wednesday, David Notley, 52, of Heathcote Grove, Chingford, received
ENVIRONMENTALLY aware students have been rolling up their sleeves and mucking in to help improve Epping Forest. Teenagers on Redbridge College’s ESOL programmes (English for Speakers of Other Languages) have been helping out the Epping Forest
A FILM on climate change is to be shown in Walthamstow as part of a nationwide initiative. "Age of Stupid", which stars Pete Postlethwaite OBE, will be screened by Transition Waltham Forest, a movement set up to address the issues of climate
AFTER three years and more than £10,000 spent trying to close a coffee shop down, the district council is considering a u-turn. Epping Forest District Council has been attempting to place an enforcement notice on Caffe Nero, in Epping High Street, ever
A CASHIER has been convicted of selling knives to a teenager. Joseph Ndana, 42, of Enfield, was fined £3,000 after being caught selling a set of steak knives to a 14-year-old boy while working at Joe's Mini Mart in High Road, Leyton, during
A PENSIONER has been left heartbroken after burglars ransacked her home and scared off her beloved pet cat. Hilda Leigh, of Wanstead, came home from lunch with a friend to discover her back door had been kicked in, with hundreds of pounds worth
CLOTHES retailer TK Maxx are offering a reward in attempt to catch violent masked robbers who targeted one of its stores. Two men armed with knives and wearing ski masks entered the shop in Leyton Mills through a rear door and threatened two members
RESIDENTS and workers in Leyton and Walthamstow are to be given the chance to request trees to be planted in their streets. Under a scheme from the Mayor of London, people can ask for the trees by registering on website london.gov.uk. According
A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition was held at a school to showcase work by students linking sports with art. Laura Gineitaite, a pupil at Rushcroft Sports College in Rushcroft Road, Chingford, was one of several pupils who has developed skills in photography
MORE W12 bus services are being proposed by Transport for London (TfL). TfL is considering increasing the number of buses on the route, which runs from Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, to Wanstead from three an hour to four. There will be
THE mother of a young woman murdered in her Chigwell home found out her daughter was dead after reading an article on the Guardian website. Soabia Sayid, 29 from Hycliffe Garden's, was strangled to death in her home last week while her two
Clyde Loakes is shortly to stand down as Leader of the Council. Many comments on stories in this website wish him good riddance. So in a potentially controversial act, I'd like to consider Clyde's legacy. Firstly, I should nail my colours
TRADERS have welcomed ambitious new plans to revamp Waltham Abbey's run-down high street. The Di Piazza family has applied for planning permission to refurbish their derelict shops in Sun Street, to create two new retail units at the rear of
PUPILS at Forest School were treated to a feast of marshall arts action when it hosted a prestigious international karate tournament. The Ryukyukan Karate Organisation contest, which is named after a chain of islands south of Japan, saw a group of
WORKERS have staged a protest at the Stratford Olympic site. Members of GMB, Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) and Unite unions called for more British workers to be employed on the site and to be employed directly, not through job agencies
ANGRY taxi drivers say not enough is being done to combat the scourge of illegal mini cabs in Redbridge. Despite both covert and high visibility policing by the London Cab Enforcement Unit, licenced black cab drivers say illegal taxi touting is still
