HIGHAMS Park Station is becoming a playground for anti-social youths, claim many worried travellers. The Guardian has been inundated with calls and letters about threatening behaviour from gangs of children as young as 11, who "hang out" on the two
WORLD WAR II veteran Ron Leagas is delighted a new Lottery scheme will help fund his visit to the Normandy battlefields. Mr Leagas, 78, of Millfield Avenue, Walthamstow, who took part in the D-Day landings in June 1944 aged 19, said revisiting the
POLICE across London may be forced to wear bulletproof vests following the recent drive-by shooting in Leytonstone. Scotland Yard has made the order after a van full of constables was sprayed with bullets in the High Road and a policewoman, believed
A PENSIONER will have warped doors in his flat repaired despite council staff claiming it was not their problem. Cliff Robnett, 75, of Ropers Avenue, visited the Guardian offices in Highams Park last week to complain after he asked the authority
THE Government has been slammed for adopting a 'think of a number' housing policy, after the East of England Regional Assembly endorsed a policy for 131,000 new homes in Essex over the next 20 years. The proposals would also see an additional 18,000
THE Bakers Benevolent Society is concerned that people who may be eligible for a place at its Bakers Villas complex in Epping are unaware of the society's existence. The society is a non-profit-making organisation which provides sheltered accommodation
CHIGWELL parish council has agreed a council tax precept of £170,000 for 2004-05. The 2.4 per cent increase on last year means a rise of less than 1.5p per week for a band D property 67p per year taking the total for the parish council's share of
A PROPOSED budget that will see Epping Forest Council's share of band D council tax bills increase by £4.86 has received cross-party support. It is a far cry from 12 months ago when the district council's share of bills rose by 14 per cent, and the
BRITAIN'S "most hated" speed camera on the M11 has been broken for at least six weeks, but drivers are still being targeted by mobile police units at the site. Motorists using the M11 this week were furious to see police taking photos as cars went
FEARS have been raised that a proposed playground in the Aldersbrook Estate would attract anti-social yobs. Objectors to the proposed play area on Wanstead Flats made their feelings known at a meeting of Redbridge Council's area two committee meeting
REDBRIDGE Council is receiving 50 per cent more calls from residents complaining about rats, but it is still planning to cut a key job within pest control. Redbridge Labour councillors are dismayed over plans by the Tory cabinet to axe the post of the
IAIN Duncan Smith's press agent has insisted that the recent question and answer session at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall went "as well as could have been expected in the centre of Liverpool". It had been reported that only 67 people stumped up the
