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  • The best Ports to get squiffy on this Christmas

    “Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares.” Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis the season to be jolly and what better way to get there than with a glass or two of vintage port? You may have guessed from previous columns that I’m a tart

  • Get in the festive mood at the Chingford Christmas fayre

    Get in the festive spirit with a special Christmas fayre next month. Used car supermarket, Motorpoint is set to host a special Village Christmas Fayre in Chingford this December. The Chingford branch, in Lea Valley Road, will be the venue for

  • Rich and powerful backed Brexit, not Remain

    Will Podmore’s letter last week (Final should mean final, Letters, November 7) implies that changing your mind should never be allowed in a democracy. Now the electorate have a better idea about what Brexit looks like, is it not entirely reasonable

  • 'Two emotions' for Angol after losing return

    Lee Angol felt "two emotions" following Leyton Orient's 2-0 home defeat to Scunthorpe United. The striker made his return from injury as a 65th-minute substitute for Dan Happe, but ultimately he was disappointed to be on the losing side as the

  • Embleton tries to learn from everybody

    Ross Embleton says he tries to learn from everybody he works with following the swift departure of Carl Fletcher. Embleton and Fletcher worked together for less than a month during the latter’s short spell as head coach of the O’s, but Embleton

  • Festive fun for all the family with pantomime spectacular

    Rehearsals have begun for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch upcoming traditional panto spectacular, the heroic Robin Hood, playing from Thursday, November 28, to Sunday, January 5. Deep in the heart of his foreboding castle, the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham

  • Then & Now: A lost street and a vanished tower block

    Here is a photo of two buildings that may be in the process of being demolished. It shows a house and what may be a shop on the corner of Boston Road and Lennox Road, Walthamstow, demolished in 1977. (Image courtesy of Vestry House Museum picture