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Police appealing for information after burglary at Woodford Green home

Police are appealing for information after a Woodford Green home was burgled on Saturday.

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‘I thought I was safe - then they raped me’: Girl tells of alleged sex ring attack

A teenage girl thought she was escaping an argument when she got into a car with a Chadwell Heath man – but he took her to a house and raped her, a court heard today.

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Redbridge Businesses Against Crime has been awarded for its work in the community

Redbridge Businesses Against Crime win award for work over last decade

A business partnership in Redbridge working towards cutting crime for the past 10 years has been acknowledged with a special award for the work it does alongside police.

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Suneet Jeerh is serving four years in jail

Ilford man in Dubai jail to have appeal hearing today

An Ilford man sentenced to four years in a Duabi jail for drugs consumption is to have an appeal hearing today against the prison term.

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Teenager arrested while in hospital for trespassing at Ilford station

A 17-year-old has been arrested for trespassing – while recovering from “serious electrical burns” in hospital – after he was found near the railway line at Ilford station.

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More than £11k of goods taken in burglary at Orchard Estate building site office

Builders carrying out improvement works at the Orchard Estate, in Woodford Green, were burgled overnight on Wednesday.

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Hainault robber, who punched man to floor for his mobile phone, sentenced to four years in prison

A Hainault robber who was seen “sizing up potential victims” outside a tube station before punching a man to the floor for his mobile phone, has been jailed for four years alongside a teenage accomplice.

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Six of ‘Redbridge’s most wanted’ arrested by police – can you identify 14 others?

Six men who appeared in last week’s Recorder as part of “Redbridge’s most wanted” have been arrested by police.

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Ray Hayes confronts the debris outside his home in Clayhall Avenue

‘Bricks flew through my windows’ man tells of horror crash in Clayhall

A 60-year-old man woke to a nightmare after a car ploughed over his front garden wall, sending bricks flying through the windows of his home.

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Snaresbrook Crown Court

Girl tells court of escape from alleged child prostitution ring hours before friend ‘raped’

A teenage girl fought off the advances of an alleged sexual predator in an Ilford hotel hours before he allegedly raped her friend, a court heard today.

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Prostitutes, condoms and kerb crawlers: Special meeting called in Ilford

Prostitutes lining street corners, used condoms left in alleyways and kerb crawlers were some of the complaints made by Loxford residents at a special meeting on Monday.

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The shop front of an off licence in Cranbrook Road has been smashed down by a thief who was trying to steal a packet of cigarettes.

Man smashes way out of Ilford off licence with stolen £4 packet of cigarettes

This was the devastation left at an Ilford off licence after an unhappy customer smashed his way out the shop with a £4 packet of cigarettes this afternoon.

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Redbridge Islamic sites visited by police following boarding school ‘arson attack’

Police have been visiting Muslim centres across Redbridge today following a suspected arson attack at an Islamic boarding school on Saturday.

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Woman attacked by man on rollerblades in South Park, Ilford

A woman standing in a park with her baby in a pram was attacked from behind by a man wearing rollerblades.

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Residents said the attack was in Manford Way park, near flats in Woodman Path.

Boy accused of Hainault park stabbing in court

A teenager accused of stabbing a 15-year-old boy in a Hainault park is due in court later this month.

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The police cordon close to The Co-operative Food store in Green Lane

UPDATE - police were called to reports of bomb in Green Lane Co-op store but no package was found

Police have now lifted a cordon after they were called to reports of a suspect package in The Co-operative Food store in Green Lane, Goodmayes.

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PICTURES: Redbridge’s most wanted - can you identify these people?

Police have released the images of 20 men and women who make up Redbridge’s most wanted – and they need your help in tracking them down.

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Spotting if your friend is becoming a terrorist taught to Redbridge youth leaders

After attending a six month workshop on how to prevent extremism, one schoolgirl says she has a completely different understanding of terrorism.

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Chadwell Heath man ‘raped child prostitute as pimp held her down’, court hears

A Chadwell Heath man was part of an east London child prostitution ring that preyed on vulnerable teenage girls from a care home, a court heard today.

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Youth Leaders Programme run by the council. The programme was a six month thing where they learnt leadership skills which they are now going to us to launch campagins for issues which are important to them.

 

Diranavan Sukumaran's project is to get young people more involved in reading.

Want to visit another world? Seven Kings student tells you how

Books can transport you to different worlds, according to one 16-year-old who believes in reading so much he is starting his own campaign and book club.

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Ten years on, what happened to Ilford’s ambitious Unity Square project, and was it needed?

Ten years ago, plans for an impressive multi-million pound project which was set to transform Ilford Town Centre and mark the “rebirth” of the area, were revealed to residents.

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Alan Davies was due to perform at the Brick Lane Comedy Festival. File picture: Yui Mok/PA

Brick Lane Comedy Festival cancelled after opposition from community groups

A comedy festival in east London due to feature acts including Al Murray, Alan Davies and Ed Byrne has been cancelled because of “heavy opposition from local community groups”.

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