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  • Table topping pair will be a tough test for the Daggers

    WITH three wins from their last four league games, are the Daggers back to their best? One way to find out would be to pit them against the league's finest and funnily enough, that's just what's in store for Garry Hill's men in the next two weeks. The

  • Where are they now?

    AS the Daggers prepare to take on top-of-the-table Chester on Saturday, they will be well aware that the last time one of the two sides took all three points from the other, it went in the Daggers' favour. Looking back at the last Daggers side to conquer

  • Janners' Journal with Mark Janney

    WE were running like it was pre-season on Saturday thanks to our game being cancelled, so it was over to Hainault for lots of trekking up and down hills and running in and out of cones. There were a lot of 'Hainault ankles' around though as a lot of

  • FRIENDS REUNITED

    FORMER O's boss Paul Brush says that he is far from surprised that his old assistant Martin Ling has made a good job of things since taking over from him in the Brisbane Road hotseat, although he still wants to get one over his old colleague when he arrives

  • Pair of Swans come back to former nest

    KEVIN Nugent and Ezomo "Izzy" Iriekpen will be going all-out to get one over former club Orient on Tuesday night, when the east Londoners will head for Swansea looking to secure three valuable points against one of their main rivals in the push for the

  • Matt's Matters with Matt Lockwood

    I THINK it was good to have a weekend off last week because being a footballer it is always our wives, girlfriends and families who get neglected at important times of the year. So having Valentines weekend off meant that the lads could be romantic,

  • Hearn: Joe no show was no O's blow

    BARRY Hearn has revealed that while he would have loved to have secured the services of former Wimbledon boss Joe Kinnear when he was looking for a successor to Paul Brush last year, he is more than happy with the way things have worked out under Martin

  • Robbers put bookies staff in a tights spot

    A PAIR of robbers wearing black tights pulled down over their faces grabbed cash from a Leytonstone bookmakers. The men entered Moony Racing, in Cann Hall Road, shortly after 12.30pm on Thursday, February 12. One of the men, thought to be carrying

  • Police raid finds big drugs haul near schools

    A CANNABIS factory was closed down by police who swooped on a Leyton house in the early hours. Officers from Chingford CID found 100 cannabis plants growing in a converted loft space within a property in Newport Road. Police stormed the house on

  • District nurses are just champion

    TWO district nurses are celebrating a special anniversary of a combined 60 years working in the NHS. Sandy Flynn and Teresa Kinnane have each worked for 30 years in the profession and are part of Waltham Forest's district nursing team based at Langthorne

  • MP Hughes boosts Lib Dem tax campaign

    A LIBERAL Democrat Member of Parliament visited Walthamstow and Chingford on to promote the Lib Dems' campaign to axe council tax and replace it with a local income tax. Simon Hughes, MP for Southwark and Bermondsey and Lib Dem candidate for London

  • Vicious carjacking results in broken leg

    A 53-YEAR-OLD man had his leg broken in three places by a pair of thugs who beat him up and hijacked his car. The attack happened just minutes after the man left his home on the Leyton Grange Estate to go to work at 7am on Monday, February 16. He

  • Airport jobs fayre to land at Orient in the spring

    IF YOU want to be a high flyer and think you know all the exits and entrances, then a job at an airport could be right up your runway. Whether you are looking for work as cabin crew or ground staff, fancy a job in retail or other airport related vacancies

  • Dad's anger at killer's release bid

    THE father of murdered Ilford police officer Phillip Walters has spoken of his horror that his son's killer may be released early. Colin Walters' son was gunned down by Raymond Lee in 1995 but his killer could be released and deported to his native Jamaica

  • Listen to some tunnel vision

    THE UNSEEN underbelly of London will be revealed in all its mysterious glory in Wanstead by historian Peter Lawrence. The chairman of Redbridge Arts Council will be giving a talk entitled Beneath the City Streets at Wanstead Community Association, 21

  • Director banned

    A WOODFORD Green man has been banned from being a company director for four years after his business failed with debts estimated at more than £88,000. Kevin Sharp, 40, of Oakhill Gardens, was director of London Door and Joinery Company Ltd, based

  • 32 languages and a good OFSTED

    RAY Lodge Junior School is a caring, welcoming place which provides a satisfactory standard of education, according to the latest OFSTED report. Nursery and reception classes at the school in Snakes Lane East, Woodford Green, provide a very good

  • Head-on collision claims life

    A MOTORCYCLIST died after his machine was involved in a head-on collision with a car in Chigwell Lane, Loughton, between the M11 and Roles Park Corner. The man was certified dead at the scene by a doctor from the Royal London Hospital air ambulance

  • School moves closer to winning grit war

    A SCHOOL has won the first round of its battle to have regular gritting carried out during snow or icy weather in High Beech. Driving conditions on roads around High Beech Primary School deteriorate rapidly in sub-zero temperatures but despite attempts

  • Pie in the sky for Becks

    NOT many restaurants can claim to have their ready-cooked food exported, but Tony's Pie and Mash shop in Waltham Abbey can claim such an accolade to David Beckham in Spain. Tony Lane has provided the Real Madrid and England midfielder with his favourite

  • Praise follows crash

    JOANNE POOLE, a trainee paramedic has been praised after she went to the aid of an 18-year-old man whose car left the A414 near Bobbingworth and hit a tree. The man, who is understood to live in Ongar, was given fluids and pain relief while he was