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IT MAY not look like it but there are some real good news stories in the Recorder this week. Aside from the Jack Petchey awards special, which we are delighted to feature, there are three court stories which should help people sleep sounder at night. The...
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 THE TUBE workers who went on strike last week, bringing the Central Line to its knees, will probably not have predicted the outrage their action caused. While many Tube staff went in to work and helped maintain a skeleton service, others heeded the call f...
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 IT MIGHT not have looked like it to those who saw me at the Movers and Shakers event on Saturday, but I love cycling. Since I was a lad of around eight I have had a bike. When Santa brought my first machine – a second hand blue Raleigh – I ignored the sno...
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THE deal struck with Conservative leader Keith Prince on Thursday is a real feather in the cap for the borough s Lib Dem group. The impasse caused by the resignation of two Tories the previous week looked ominous for the Tories – until Hugh Cleaver steppe...
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THE SHENANIGANS at Redbridge Town Hall on Thursday will have provoked varying reactions from residents. Some of those close to the political scene will raise their eyes to heaven, other disinterested parties probably won t bat an eyelid. But the growing f...
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 THE CLAIM this week that Pioneer Point will be a symbol of Ilford town centre s future (see page 4) will be greeted with horror by some. The 33-storey development on the site of the old Pioneer Market off Clements Road, is seen as the icing on the high-ri...
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 HEALTH services in Redbridge have come under the microscope over the past few years. Rumours regularly circulate that King George Hospital is facing the axe – and the latest health move will probably start them up again. The opening of the Loxford polycli...
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