POLICE are concerned for the welfare of a 27-year-old man who has gone missing. Pasupathipillai Kovarthan from Walthamstow has not been in contact with his family since he returned to the UK from Qatar on March 10. His family have said
TWO police officers were injured during a chase to stop two would-be burglars. Police received reports at about 12.30pm yesterday of two male suspects behaving suspiciously in Gunners Grove, Chingford. They had been seen climbing over a garden wall
FIREFIGHTERS at Ongar Fire Station will be on hand to wash residents' cars this Saturday (April 24) to help raise money for two charities. All cash collected will go to Help for Heroes and the Fire Fighter's Charity. Spokesman Gordon Hunter said
A CHARITY comedy night will be held to raise funds for a Redbridge children's hospice. Royal Variety show comic Terry Alderton will top the bill during the event at Funky Mojoe's bar in South Woodford on Thursday May 20 - which has been organised
EXAMS at one of the district's biggest secondary schools have been affected by the travel disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud over Europe. A number of staff and pupils at Davenant Foundation School have been stranded abroad after the
A TOP betting website has tipped the Lib Dems to take Wanstead from Labour at the general election The damage done to Labour by Harry Cohen's involvement in the expenses scandal combined with the Lib Dems recent poll bounce could see the seat
ANGLO-SAXON re-enactors will be on hand to educate and entertain at a special event held to celebrate the 950th anniversary of the consecration of King Harold's Church in Waltham Abbey. Epping Forest District Museum, in Sun Street, will host
A CONCERT is to be held at St John's Church in Epping this Friday (April 23) to celebrate St George's Day. The show will include music by Wesley, Rutter and Vaughan Williams sung by St John's Choir, along with solo items by the likes of Elgar
THE candidates standing in the election to be MP for Epping Forest on Thursday May 6 have been officially announced today. With nominations now closed, Epping Forest District Council has formally confirmed the widely predicted line-up.
WEST HAM striker Benni McCarthy has warned the last three games are 'life or death' for the club. The South African hitman, who joined from Blackburn Rovers for £3million in January, has been a frustrated observer for much of his Hammers spell
THE NAMES of all the prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) standing in constituencies around the borough have been confirmed, as the election campaign heats up. The final list of people hoping to win your vote in the three constituencies
A CONMAN at the centre of an international fraud ring has been ordered to pay back more than £11m or face ten years behind bars. Amram Braha, of Perth Road, Gants Hill, was sent to prison for ten months in March 2008 after more than 30,000 fake Burberry
THE Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society had more than 250 visitors at a history fair to mark its fifth birthday. At St John's Church, in Church Lane, Leytonstone, on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of people visited to look at stalls run by several
WOODFORD-based UKA Shikon Karate member Dan Cuthbert ret-urned from the European Karate Championships in Portugal with an impressive three bronze medals. Already a four-time English champion, Cuthbert excelled on the international stage, scooping two
A Buckhurst Hill teenager is poised to become a professional footballer for Charlton Athletic FC. For 18-year-old Carl Jenkinson this is the first step in a career which he has always dreamed about. The ex-Belmont Juniors boy is set
WOODFORD finished their London One North campaign with a flourish, dispatching Rochford Hundred 35-25 at their Highams ground to give their home fans a final hurrah. In all, it has been a disappointing season for the team, as they finished the year in
SAM WATTS and Alex Cornwall were the top performers for Woodford Green with Essex Ladies at the first National Junior League meet of the season. Watts, whose goal it will be to qualify for the World Junior (U20) Champion-ships this year, almost matched
EASTSIDE Eagles under-16s girls basketball team have qualified for the semi-finals of the national championships after a superb season. The girls finished second in the South Division with an impressive record of 18 wins and two defeats. They booked
OLD LOUGHTONIANS’ under-12 girls hockey team will represent the East region in the National Finals after a nail-biting finale in which they secured their place in Nottingham with a penalty strokes victory. Having breezed through the group stages without
YOUNG tennis hopefuls flocked to Whitehall Tennis Club courts to take part in the annual Wilson Junior Lawn Tennis Association Grade Three tournament last week. In the men’s premier event, Wood-ford’s Joe Hall won the U21 singles competition. However
The short mat bowls section of the Woodford Wells Club recently held their Annual Open Triples competition. Sixteen teams took part and it was eventually a team from Wells, MONKS, that finished on top of the pile at the end of the competition. Buckhurst
JABO Ibehre admitted a small part of him was happy not to score against Orient, last weekend. The former cult hero striker was back at Brisbane Road with Stockport County for the game. He received a fond welcome from the home fans, who
POLICE have made arrests in the borough as part of a national operation to fight gun and drug crime. Officers conducted the raids as part of Operation Peyzac, in which police made arrests in Redbridge as well as at addresses in the nearby boroughs
WALTHAM Abbey netted four goals to rack up their biggest win of the season on Tuesday night. But the Abbotts still need a miracle to avoid relegation from the Ryman League Premier Division. Captain James Elmes hit two from the penalty spot, and then
DAGGERS boss John Still claimed that ‘tempo’ and ‘belief’ are the two qualities the team must demonstrate most between now and the end of the season if they are to gatecrash the League Two play-offs. Dagenham certainly showed plenty of both on Saturday
THE runners for the General Election in the borough's parliamentary constiuencies have been confirmed. There are 24 candidates across the three constituencies who will bid to be elected MPs on May 6th. The candidates are: Chingford
DURING a time when honesty and integrity in the game of golf have been called into question following the recent revelations surrounding Tiger Woods, one local player has done his bit to restore people’s faith in the sport after an incredible act of
A TEAM of young cricketers finished their Caribbean tour on a high by fighting back to win a nerve-wracking final game. A squad of under-14 and under-15 players from Forest School, in Snaresbrook, visited the island of St Lucia during the Easter
CHIGWELL golfer Oliver Fisher has shown he is ready to fulfil his huge promise after a series of eye-catching results on the European Tour catapulted him up the Race to Dubai standings. The 21-year-old was tipped as a future challenger for the likes
FIREFIGHTERS in Epping Forest could soon go on strike after talks between union officials and bosses in Essex broke down. Both sides blame each other for the collapse in talks, held to discuss proposed changes to employee conditions.
A MAN was left with serious head injuries after being attacked in a Redbridge street. Police have called for information about the assault, which took place in Green Lane, Ilford at around 6.40pm on Friday, April 16. A spokeswoman said: "Police
A WELL-ESTABLISHED local firm has been helping rescue stranded British tourists in mainland Europe, after the volcanic eruption in Iceland grounded all flights in and out of the UK. Dans Luxury Travel, which is based in Maybank Road, South
VOTERS will finally see a complete list of candidates to choose from at the forthcoming general election today. The deadline for candidates to register to stand in constituencies across the country closed at 5pm yesterday (April 20).
A GANG of thieves stole cash from the home of an 80-year-old pensioner after pretending to have fixed her roof. Two men conned their way into the woman's house in Pulteney Road, South Woodford, after calling at her front door and demanding
A JEWISH secondary celebrated the anniversary of the founding of Israel with a series of special events yesterday. Pupils at King Solomon High School, in Barkingside, marked the state's 62nd birthday - know as Yom Ha'atzmaut - on Tuesday, April
ONE of the borough's most historic buildings will hold its annual Spring event next month. Valentines Mansion, in Emerson Road, Ilford, will host its May Fair on Saturday, May 15, and will feature a packed programme of events and entertainment
FIREFIGHTERS spent 12 hours tackling a blaze after 100 tonnes of rubbish caught fire. The mound of waste at the Camden Plant Ltd recycling facility off Lower Hall Lane in Chingford, which was piled up between the Edmonton Incinerator and Thames
POLICE conducted a crack-down on speeding motorists in a residential street, following a series of complaints about speeds travelling too fast past their homes. Members of the Aldborough Safer Neighbourhood used a speed gun to catch motorists
Waltham Abbey netted four goals to rack up their biggest win of the season on Tuesday night. But the Abbots still need a miracle to avoid relegation out of the Ryman Premier division. Captain James Elmes hit two from the penalty spot
