It was a season’s best for Team GB in the women’s Olympic 4x400m relay final tonight but the quartet could only manage a fifth place finish. The group, including Woodford Green with Essex Ladies’ Shana Cox and Lee McConnell of Shaftesbury Barnet
They say fourth is the worst place to finish in an Olympic competition and although Harry Martin was clearly disappointed to have done just that, he was able to point to the positives for Team GB. The Old Loughtonians midfielder featured heavily
A CHARITY for people with learning difficulties is holding a fundraising funday in Waltham Abbey's Abbey Gardens next Saturday (August 18). The Amanda Byatt Care Foundation is organising the event, which runs between 11am and 5pm. Activities
A CONSULTATION asking residents what they want the council to spend its money on is expected to cost taxpayers over £23,500, it has emerged. The authority launched the new 'Make it Count' campaign earlier this year to gauge the public's views
A CRICKET club is to wear black armbands and hold a minute's silence in honour of a popular Wanstead teacher who died last week, as tributes continue to pour in. Steve Lovegrove, 51, a head of year and PE teacher at Wanstead High School
AROUND 25 people were evacuated from flats above a designer clothes shop when it caught fire in the early hours of this morning. About half of the ground floor of the store, in Barkingside High Street, was damaged in the blaze after it broke
Lutalo Muhammad maintains he was never out to prove a point after batting to secure Britain's first male Olympic taekwondo medal with bronze in the under-80kgs at ExCeL last night. The 21-year-old was a controversial selection for the Team GB squad
