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  • ONGAR: Outrage over early poppy collection

    A LANDLORD has criticised a “ridiculous” rule which meant a poppy collection box in his pub was removed by officials two days BEFORE Armistice Day. Ian Goodman, who runs the Cock Tavern in Ongar High Street, said he was stunned when he was

  • SOUTH WOODFORD: Veteran urges support for Afghan campaign

    A SECOND World War veteran who witnessed the horrors of warfare in post D-Day Normandy and helped liberate a Nazi prison camp has called on residents to support Britain's troops in Afghanistan. Joe Hollingsworth, 87, of Buckingham Road in South

  • A woodland setting

    This is a rare opportunity to acquire a home in a very desirable setting facing directly on to forest land. This charming detached four bedroom mock Tudor style residence further benefits from a corner setting. The quiet location provides

  • ‘Providing homes, not properties’

    Atlantic, established in 1998, is evolving into a major provider of accommodation, construction and regeneration services to the community. The ethos underpinning the company is building with a conscience, for future generations. By offering value for

  • WALTHAM ABBEY: Gift ideas and festive music this Christmas

    CHRISTMAS will be very much in the air at two important events at a much-loved church next month. Waltham Abbey Church, in Abbey Gardens, will be holding a Christmas Bazaar on Saturday December 5, where you can find all kinds of gift ideas for friends

  • EPPING FOREST: Traders urged to seek advice over rates

    SHOPKEEPERS hit by double or even treble their existing business rates are being urged to seek advice from their chamber of commerce. Epping Forest Chamber of Commerce latest meeting focussed on the need to address the issue of the sudden rise in business

  • LEYTONSTONE: 60 stalls lined up for Christmas market

    ALL 60 slots have now been filled for a Christmas market, to be held at two Leytonstone churches. St John's Church and Leytonstone Methodist Church, both in the High Road, will host the market on December 5, between 10am and 6pm. The market is set

  • OLYMPICS: Study centre for Olympics workers opens

    A STUDY centre for apprentices working on the Olympic park was officially opened today. Olympics minister Tessa Jowell,opened the “hub” which will provide career advice, courses, computers and study areas. The facility, which is a temporary building

  • THORNWOOD: Playground gets £20,000 makeover

    NEW play equipment has already been taken up with relish by youngsters in a village. The equipment at Thornwood Common Playing Field, Thornwood, has received a near £20,000 makeover thanks to grants from Epping Forest District Council, Essex

  • ONGAR: MoD fail to deliver soldier's food parcels

    THE family of an Ongar soldier serving in Afghanistan have criticised the MoD for failing to deliver food parcels to their relative. Byron Fry, 20, of the Shelley Estate in Ongar, phoned his relatives shortly after being posted at the start of

  • LEYTONSTONE: Troubled pub allowed to keep licence

    A TROUBLED Leytonstone pub has been allowed to keep its licence following a review today. The Sheepwalk, in Leytonstone High Road, was given three months to turn around in July after residents complained of drug taking, underage drinking and

  • CHINGFORD: Event to raise money for Sri Lankan orphans

    A CHARITY seeking to raise money for a home for orphans in Sri Lanka will be launched at a special event in Chingford next month. Serendip Children's Home is aiming to raise £10,000 to fund a home for 50 orphaned children in Jaffna, Sri Lanka

  • WANSTEAD: Bar offers support to playground campaigners

    CAMPAIGNERS battling to get a dilapidated playground renovated have been offered support from an unexpected source. Parents in Wanstead have been trying to get the children's play area in Christchurch Green refurbished for more than a year.

  • LEYTON: Local Labour party hits out over Dromey rumours

    THE secretary of the Leyton and Wanstead Labour party has hit out over delays in selecting a prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency. The local party is at odds with the national party over the possible selection of deputy

  • WALTHAMSTOW: School staff receive swine flu jabs

    CARE staff at a special school received swine flu jabs as part of the primary care trust's battle against the virus. NHS Waltham Forest and the council have employed 30 trained pharmacists to adminster jabs to more than 200 frontline social services

  • WALTHAM FOREST: Islamic charity launches think tank

    A LEYTON Islamic charity is to launch a think tank aimed at finding ways for Muslims to contribute to the community over the next 10 years. Noor Ul Islam will launch the think tank during Islam Awareness Week and will also host an open mosque

  • WALTHAMSTOW: First pictures of proposed new school

    PLANS for a new £15m school and community learning centre earmarked for a site in Walthamstow have been finalised, the council says. A brand new primary school for 630 pupils will be built on the site of the council's adult education centre

  • LEYTONSTONE: Christmas bazaar to be held

    A CHRISTMAS bazaar is to be held at a Leytonstone church. St Andrew's Church, in Colworth Road, will host the event on November 21 from 11am to 3pm. Lunches will be served from 12pm and Father Christmas will pay a visit from 1pm. The church will

  • LOUGHTON: TV show comes to town

    A TV talk show is coming to town with the aim of improving people's spiritual lives. The Dreams For Living show which broadcasts on Sky TV is holding an evening of music and entertainment at St Mary's Church, in Loughton High Road, on Saturday

  • LOUGHTON: Playground equipment destroyed by vandals

    VANDALS have repeatedly targeted a children's playground before it has even opened and completely destroyed some equipment. The fence around the new Westall Road playground, in Loughton, has been pulled down on a daily basis by yobs, and the

  • Harlem moves

    BE transported to the steamy hot nights of ‘20s Harlem, as the music, song and dance of the famous New York Cotton Club are recreated courtesy of Harry Strutters’ Hot Rythm Orchestra, the Jiving Lindy Hoppers and singer Tony Jacobs at the Kenneth More

  • THEYDON BOIS: Golf club shows its arty side

    HUNDREDS of members at one of the district's most popular golf clubs will be showing off their artistic sides at an exhibition of their work next week. Art enthusiasts at Theydon Bois Golf Club, in Theydon Road, have spent the last four months

  • One big, happy, Highams Players family

    BACK in 1939, Barbara Brown and some fellow old girls from what was then Highams School, now Woodford County High School, decided to start an amateur dramatic society. Quite amazingly, 70 years on and the Highams Players is still going strong and staying

  • Hat trick

    FANCY fashioning a fascinating fascinator? Then head to the Abbey Church Centre, Abbey Gardens, Waltham Abbey on Ssturday, November 14, from 2pm-5pm, for a special millinery workshop organised as part of the makedo&mend: an exhibition at Epping

  • Life and times of Paul Robeson

    SINGER, athlete, writer, actor and lawyer prolific American icon Paul Robeson was a forerunner of the civil rights movement, who rose from ‘white man‘s lackey‘ to become a belligerent, forceful spokesman for Black human rights. Now aged 77, performer

  • Meljon Singers present an evening of heavenly music

    WINNER of the Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, pianist Michael Ierace will join Redbridge-based Meljon Singers on the bill for A Voice From Heaven, at St James’ Church, Piccadilly on Saturday, November 21. The magical concert will

  • Crafty tee

    ROUND up your unwanted T-shirts and head down to the Ye Old Rose & Crown, in Walthamstow, for the East London Craft Guerrilla’s monthly DIY craft night on Thursday, November 12, 8pm. This month, the team will show you how to harvest your

  • Comedian Robin Ince comes to Crouch End

    RICKY Gervais’ long-suffering warm-up act and close friend Robin Ince records a live CD of his hit show Bleeding Heart Liberal at Downstairs at the Kings Head, in Crouch End, next Tuesday. Robin mixes up stories of childbirth, astronomy, evolutionary

  • Theatre of the mind

    Hairdressers hear a lot of gossip. But the tales told in the salon of St Margaret’s Hospital, a mental asylum known locally as the Great Barr Idiot Colony, were so harrowing they inspired an award-winning play about three women sectioned under the 1913

  • Get all jazzed up

    Jazz is like marmite. You either love it or you hate it. But whether the sounds of Miles Davies send you reaching for your pork pie hat or running for the door, there is no denying that this great musical tradition is once again cool, and for clarification

  • Edmonton lights up

    GET into the festive spirit this week, as the Great Edmonton Green Switch On hits the shopping centre on Thursday, November 12, 4pm-7pm. The event will see Enfield Mayor, Cllr Eleftherios Savva switching on the Christmas illuminations, plus performances

  • CHIGWELL: Footballer loses speeding appeal

    ENGLAND and Tottenham football star Jermain Defoe has lost an appeal against his conviction for speeding in Chigwell. Mr Defoe, 27, was twice caught breaking the 50mph limit on the northbound section of the M11 in his Land Rover last year.

  • REDBRIDGE: Black and white TVs going strong after 40 years

    FORTY years after the introduction of the colour television licence, dozens of people in Wanstead and Woodford still watching on a black and white set, it has emerged. A total 77 people still hold the old-style licences across the area, with

  • Chickenshed celebrates 35 years with a gala evening

    In 1974, musician and composer, Jo Collins, met Mary Ward, a teacher and director. With a shared belief in harnessing the creativity in everyone and anyone, they started a theatre company – in a chicken shed. The rest, they say, is history and to celebrate

  • The London Jazz Festival hits north London

    Jazz is like Marmite. You either love it or you hate it. But, whether the inimitable sound of Miles Davies sends you reaching for your pork pie hat or running for the door, there is no denying that this great musical tradition is once again cool

  • CHIGWELL: Brownie group achieves national fame - twice

    A BROWNIE group from Chigwell are set to make history by appearing on a set of Royal Mail stamps marking the centenary of the girl guide movement. Two of the youngsters Tiwa Otesanya-Salvo and Emily Willis will appear in the set, released in

  • LEYTON: Dromey 'could be parachuted in' as Labour candidate

    LABOUR activists could be on a collision course with national party bosses over a reported plan to parachute in Harriet Harman’s husband to the so-called safe seat of Leyton and Wanstead. Jack Dromey is rumoured to be in the running to replace

  • LOUGHTON: Church to host autumn fair

    ST JOHN'S Church in Loughton hosts an Autumn Fair this Saturday (November 14). The event, held between 11.30am and 3pm in its Parish Hall in Church Lane, will see a variety of stalls selling toys, books, cards, general gifts and refreshments. There

  • WALTHAM ABBEY: Noisy neighbour fined £100

    A WOMAN who made her neighbours' lives a misery by playing loud music in the middle of the night has been fined £100. Sarah-Louise Blyther, of Sewardstone Street in Waltham Abbey, was slapped with the fine and a further £100 costs after pleading

  • Dalton lands place at top cricket camp

    LOUGHTON cricketer Catherine Dalton will become the first female from the United Kingdom to attend a famous camp in South Africa for some of the game’s brightest prospects. Seventeen-year-old Dalton, who plays for Essex, will join the five-day camp

  • Casey delivers KO blow

    A BOXER from Theydon Bois has returned home as European champion after winning gold at the continent’s largest amateur tournament. Casey O’Riordan triumphed in the under-63kg category, beating a fighter from Manchester in the final in Sweden to claim

  • Gill guns for fifth victory

    UPSHIRE boxer Phil Gill will share the same ring as British heavyweight champion Danny Williams after winning his fourth consecutive professional fight last week. Gill, dubbed ‘The Experience’, defeated Kristian Laight on points at the Troxy in London

  • Daggers look to Stanley after cup blitz

    DAGENHAM & Redbridge return to the relative comfort of league action this week after a heavy beating at the hands of Huddersfield Town during a brief but torturous FA Cup campaign. Daggers manager John Still fielded a strong team for the trip to the

  • Abbey eager to prolong recovery

    WALTHAM Abbey have widened the gap between themselves and the foot of the Ryman Premier. Now they will want to maintain that momentum when they take on Horsham this weekend. Things are so tight between the clubs right now, so Abbey could propel themselves

  • WEST HAM: Stan's bid to be the main man

    JUNIOR Stanislas has set his sights on becoming the complete footballer at West Ham United. The young winger has been forced to settle for a place on the bench in recent weeks, largely due to the return of Jack Collison and Valon Behrami from injury

  • LEYTONSTONE: Troubled pub to undergo licensing review

    THE council's licensing act sub-committee is to meet tomorrow to decide the fate of a troubled Leytonstone pub. Councillors will discuss the Sheepwalk, in High Road Leytonstone, after a review of its licence was called. Residents had