REGENERATING Waltham Abbey was among the subjects discussed at a Community Planning Day. It was attended by more than 100 people at the town hall. Organised by Voluntary Action Epping Forest the aim was to bring people from different employment sectors
COMMUNICATIONS giant O2 has defended plans to install a 12.5ft mobile phone mast by a bus stop in Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey. Residents were horrified by news of an application for the mast - proposed for opposite number 64 Honey Lane - so close to homes
A "WATER city" is to arise from the run-down tower blocks and industrial wasteland of East London under major new plans for the area. Over the next decade, the scheme launched on Tuesday, will bring up to 40,000 homes and 50,000 jobs to the Lower Lea
POLICE have begun a month-long drive to cut car crime in Newham. Operation Imp was rolled out last week, and police hope it will reduce crime and raise awareness among motorists. Along with high-visibility patrols around the borough, undercover operations
SCHOOLGIRL Emma Selby was once banned from swimming after she was diagnosed with a tumour in her ear. Emma, 15, was born with hearing problems and at the age of nine tests revealed she had a rare condition called cholesteatoma and she was told she
SURVIVORS of the Kashmir earthquake who were given refuge in restaurant owner Asad Ali's Pakistan home have returned to their village at last. The devastating earthquake in October moved Mr Ali, 29, of Thornhill Road, Leyton, to transform his 26-room
AN APPLICATION to reduce King Solomon High School from a five to a four-form entry school has been rejected by the schools adjudicator. Last summer it appeared that the school in Forest Road, Barkingside, would not have enough applicants for the school
A BABY boom in Redbridge and Waltham Forest has meant expectant parents are waiting up to five weeks extra for ultrasound scans. Second scans, typically held at 20 weeks, are being delayed to as late as 25 weeks, which is too late to have a termination
PATIENTS and staff of Redbridge Primary Care Trust (PCT) are waiting to see where the axe will fall after the PCT was ordered to make more than £8million of savings, despite being £2 million in the black. Having balanced its books, Redbridge, along with
TWO Walthamstow schoolgirls did well in the latest heat of a singing competition. Nancy Cunningham, 15, who goes to Walthamstow School for Girls, Church Hill, came top of the Inter College Vocal Search with 100 points after singing Underneath My Clothes
AN ex-glamour model and her Brookside star husband were in Epping for the start of the 11th Rhys Daniels Trust fun run. Linda Lusardi and Sam Kane, who played philandering hairdresser Peter Phelan in the now defunct Liverpool-based Channel 4 soap, were
DISTRICT post offices are fighting for their futures against "disastrous" Government plans which would leave elderly people without a "vital lifeline". North Weald sub-postmaster Rohit Sundra says the loss of the village post office could disintegrate
DOGFIGHTS being filmed by youths have been distressing residents who think it is the new happy-slapping. A gang of more than half a dozen youths set the two Staffordshire bull terriers and one bull mastiff against each other, then filmed them fighting
MARIO and Merry Zeppa will celebrate 30 years of fine Italian cuisine at their Adriatica restaurant in High Road, Woodford Green, later this month. On May 26, 1976 the couple moved into the restaurant and have seen it flourish throughout four different
WITH less than a month before the World Cup finals, two Woodford Green youngsters have been selected by Terry Venables for his England squad. James Wright, nine, and Jimmy Castle, ten, were picked out by the former England manager ahead of thousands
THEY may be able to afford to buy any player in world football, but Woodford-based youngster Jimmy Smith has proved that hard work also counts for a lot at Chelsea after he was handed his full debut for the first team at Newcastle last weekend, writes
