A FINAL call has been made for teams of young people who want to volunteer at the Olympics to submit their application. Youth groups, sports clubs, community organisations, schools and colleges, have until midnight on October 31 to apply. The London
TWO people have been arrested following a disturbance outside the YMCA in Forest Road, Walthamstow. Police attended the scene at 3.30pm this afternoon (Thursday October 20) and seized the pair for public order offences. Details are sketchy
A CEMETERY is so badly neglected and overgrown that it is a struggle to visit some of its graves, it is claimed. The Johnstons of Walthamstow say they were left deeply upset when they went to their family plot at Queens Road Cemetery to discover
THERE are concerns for the safety of a man missing from Leyton. Paul Callender, 28, was last seen on Tuesday September 20. He is described as six foot three tall, of medium build with blue eyes and short brown hair. His address
A JAZZ group is hoping to encourage youngsters to go to one of its performances at a community theatre. The Tuxedo Jazz Orchestra will be performing classics including a version of The Teddy Bears’ Picnic and pieces by Cole Porter, Louis Armstrong
ADMISSIONS to a care home subject to investigations following concerns over the treatment of residents were suspended by the council as far back as July, the Guardian has learned. The council visited Chestnuts Nursing and Dementia Home in Cambridge
A CLASSIC family musical comes to Redbridge next month. Annie will be performed by Essex-based company ‘Stage One’ at the Kenneth More Theatre in Ilford. Tickets for the show, which runs from November 3 to November 6, are priced at £10 - £15, and all
WHEN Wanstead and Snaresbrook Cricket Club was founded in 1866 it had only 15 members. Now, almost 150 years later, the club has over 1,000 members and boasts an astonishing record of producing international players and professional stars.
NOT content with playing in one of the world’s most successful bands, Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood will be hoping to impress crowds with his paintings at a new exhibition. Five works of art by Wood showing himself and other members of rock band the Rolling
The Football League have today accepted controversial plans which will make it easier for the top clubs to snap up the country’s leading talent on the cheap. The majority of the 72 Football League clubs voted in favour of accepting the Premier League
AN Islamic education group has applied for permission to open a girls school in Leytonstone's former police station. The Azhar Academy wants to use the site as an extension to its existing secondary school in Forest Gate. It also wants
Summer signing Leon McSweeney is looking to make the right back berth his own after impressing when deputising in the position. The former Hartlepool United man got his first start for Orient in midfield at Walsall on the opening day but has since
SCHOOLCHILDREN were invited to a local park to celebrate an award. The pupils from Oakdale Junior School in South Woodford were in Elmhurst Gardens on Fosters Close to watch the unveiling of a flag awarded to the park. Green Flag presents
YOUNG people with an interest in politics have the chance to stand for election. Anyone aged between 11 and 19 who lives or studies in Redbridge is eligible to apply for nomination to the UK Youth Parliament which represents the views of young people
A HEALTHCARE assistant used forged documents to net £95,000 from the NHS. Illegal immigrant Mojisola Madandola, of Vicarage Road, Stratford, used false passports to gain work with NHS Outer North East London and secure training funded by the
A SPECTACULAR fireworks display will be held at St John the Baptist Church in Loughton on Bonfire Night. The event, in Church Lane, starts at 7pm and burgers, hot dogs, soups and other refreshments will be available. Tickets cost £12
PARENTS say they will take action after being told that there are no current plans to replace a lollipop lady who has retired after 26 years. Jean Wilson, 65, retired from her work helping pupils from Ivy Chimneys School cross Centre Drive,
A HEALTH and wellbeing event will be held in Epping Library on November 3. Visitors will have the chance to experience Alexander Technique and Reiki with free 10 minute treatment sessions from local practitioners. There will also be
Russell Slade has hailed the importance of Saturday’s 1-0 victory for his side. In a game of few chances, Dean Cox’s late first half strike proved decisive as the O’s were able to claim three points for the third game running. Although
A ‘NATURAL community’ must not be divided by new Parliamentary boundaries, residents and politicians insist. Tory councillors will tonight (Thursday) call on the council to challenge a plan to separate the electorate in Chingford from those in Highams
EXPERIENCED carers of dementia sufferers will help those new to the role under a new scheme recently launched in Waltham Forest. The Shield project has been started by the Waltham Forest Carers Association (WFCA) to explore different approaches to helping
A CONSERVATIVE councillor has been criticised for a 'joke' he made on Twitter about the eviction of the Dale Farm travellers' site. Chingford Green ward Cllr Thom Goddard provoked fury on the social networking website after comparing protesters
ARTISTS from Epping held a joint exhibition with their fellow artists from Eppingen, Germany, to mark thirty years of the towns being twinned. Visitors enjoyed a range of work at the exhibition in St John’s Church, Epping, including still lives
Saturday’s victory over Bury saw Leyton Orient record their third win in a row as they continue to pull themselves away from the foot of the League One table. The match against the Shakers saw club captain Stephan Dawson take on his former
FOOTBALL fans who helped finance a memorial in France honouring players who fought in World War One have been thanked with their own plaque at Leyton Orient FC's ground. More than £15,000 was raised by supporters for the granite monument near the Somme
West Ham defender George McCartney believes the side need to work on grinding out results after their defeat at Southampton. The Irons slipped five points behind the Championship leaders after their third loss of the campaign. Late defeats
A WOMAN who has worked tirelessly to support victims of sexual and domestic violence over the last three decades has been honoured by the mayor of London. Chris Casey, who founded The Haven centre in Leyton High Road back in 1982, was awarded the Londoner's
BOTH underground and overground train services in the borough are closed this weekend due to engineering works. The entire Victoria Line is shut on Saturday and Sunday (October 22 and 23), while the Gospel Oak to Barking route will also be
A DATE has been set for a rubbish tip to shut despite thousands of people signing a petition against its closure. More than 4,000 people put their names to the campaign to save the Recycling Centre for Household Waste in Mill Lane, High Ongar
CONCERNS have been raised about emergency access to a neighbourhood close to the site of a new school. As part of the works for the new St John’s Secondary School building in Epping, Lower Bury Lane has become a dead-end. Bury Road resident
