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  • A new and sustainable normal is needed

    The poet Benjamin Zephaniah recently made a very valid point when he said that we don't need to get back to normal, after the pandemic. Normal he argued got us into the present situation. The destructive way in which human beings live is destroying

  • Nine more pubs we've lost in Walthamstow

    No part of the areas of East London covered by the Guardian has lost more pubs than Walthamstow - and this week we take a look at some more that have closed over the years. The Lost Pubs Project archives the decline of the English pub and using

  • Urgent search for 12-year-old girl last seen in park

    Police are urgently searching for a 12-year-old girl who has been missing for more than 36 hours. Mannat Mann was last seen near Wanstead Park at 1.45pm on Thursday (July 22). The Metropolitan Police is growing concerned for Mannat because

  • Then & Now: The laundry that became a sweet factory

    Dating from 1857 and well known in Chingford for many years was Mrs Nash’s Laundry, situated behind the almshouses and later taken over by the Edmonds family, before first becoming a sweet factory and then an up-market housing estate in Carbis Close