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Covid-19 patient from Chadwell Heath leaves ITU after 121 days

17:00 Cash Boyle

Covid-19 patient Anilkumar Patel, 63, has left the ITU at King George Hospital after 121 days. Picture: BHRUT NHS Trust

A Covid-19 patient from Chadwell Heath has left the ITU at King George Hospital after 121 days.

Wanstead bicycle charity rocked by theft

15:00 Roy Chacko

Three bikes were stolen from charity Wanstead Upcycles set up by Paul Canal. Picture: Paul Canal

Three bikes were stolen from a Wanstead charity which refurbishes donated bicycles to raise money for Haven House Children’s Hospice.

MP urges Redbridge Council not to leave Marks Gate neighbours ‘in the dark’ over green belt building work

12:14 Jon King

Neighbours complained to MP Jon Cruddas about noise, dirty air and congestion during work in Billet Road. Picture: Hannah Somerville

The MP for Dagenham and Rainham has urged Redbridge Council not to leave neighbours “in the dark” over building work on green belt land.

Man with chainshaw arrested in Gants Hill at 3.30 in morning

09:54 Roy Chacko

Police arrested a man walking around Gants Hill with a chainsaw at 3:30 in the morning. Picture: Metropolitan Police.

A man was arrested in Gants Hill after walking around with a chainsaw at 3.30 in the morning.

Redbridge Council to install first Quiet Streets traffic barriers

07:00 Victoria Munro and roy chacko

Temporary traffic barriers will be installed from September 14 until the end of the year. Picture: Redbridge Council

Redbridge Council will begin trialling its version of Waltham Forest’s “mini Holland” scheme next week after learning from the neighbouring council that it “does work”.

Chigwell mum and daughter return to Britain’s Got Talent after emotional golden buzzer secured their spot

Yesterday, 17:00 Roy Chacko

Honey Harrison-Maw surprised her mum Sammy Harrison by signing them both up to audition for Britain's Got Talent. Picture: Sam Harrison

A mother and daughter from Chigwell are set to perform in the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent after their surprise “golden buzzer” moment.

Angelina Jolie surprises ‘Lemonade for Yemen-Aid’ Seven Kings boys with donation and personalised letter

Yesterday, 15:48 Roy Chacko

Angelina Jolie surprised two boys in Seven Kings with a large donation to their fundraiser to help starving children in Yemen. Picture: PA/ Yui Mok and Adeela Moosa

The two boys in Seven Kings whose “Lemonade for Yemen-Aid” fundraiser went viral have a new fan in Angelina Jolie who sent them a personalised letter and a large donation.

Where can savings be made? Redbridge Council asks residents to help set budget

Yesterday, 13:30 Lindsay Jones

Residents will be asked to rate how important services like rubbish collection are to them. Picture: PA

Redbridge Council is holding a series of virtual events to give people the chance to tell it what services matter most to them and potential ways to make vital savings over the next five years.

Redbridge patients wait more than two months for blood tests

Yesterday, 12:00 Roy Chacko

Patients in Redbridge have to wait more than two months to get a blood test with only one community clinic open at the moment. Picture: PA/Simon Dawson

Patients in Redbridge are facing waiting times of more than two months to get blood tests, delaying treatment and medication.

Operation launches in Redbridge to stop young people becoming involved with gangs

Opinion Recorder letters: Loxford Park, road works, rising crime, care workers and school fears

Eat Out to Help Out: Where in east London the most meals were eaten

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How leaving a gift in your will can help Saint Francis Hospice

Opinion View from the House: Support for those hit by exam fiasco

Dagenham start the new season away to Halifax Town

13:30 Jacob Ranson

Dagenham manager Daryl McMahon during Hornchurch vs Dagenham & Redbridge, Friendly Match Football at Hornchurch Stadium on 5th September 2020

Dagenham & Redbridge will start the new National League away to Halifax Town before taking on Barnet in their first home fixture.

Essex bag Bob Willis Trophy final spot with Middlesex victory

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Sam Cook of Essex celebrates taking the wicket of Lewis Gregory during Somerset CCC vs Essex CCC, Specsavers County Championship Division 1 Cricket at The Cooper Associates County Ground on 24th September 2019

Unbeaten Essex confirmed their place in the Bob Willis Trophy final as South Group victors with an emphatic nine-wicket win over Middlesex.

Beard topples Middlesex to put Essex on track for final

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Essex's Aaron Beard bowls during day two of the Bob Willis Trophy match at 1st Central County Ground, Hove.

Aaron Beard toppled the Middlesex top order after Adam Wheater’s chanceless 83 not out put Essex on course for the Bob Willis Trophy final,

The sale of Diangana is a slap in the face to West Ham traditions

09:01

Fulham's Josh Onomah challenges West Bromwich Albion's Grady Diangana during the Sky Bet Championship match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich.

West Ham United fan and budding journalist Kwame Boakye gives his views of the latest comings and goings around the club.

Daggers announce return of Wright

Yesterday, 16:12 Jacob Ranson

Will Wright in action for Dagenham & Redbridge against Torquay during the 2019-20 season (pic Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo)

Dagenham & Redbridge have announced that Will Wright has re-signed for the club after having orginally been released following the expiration of his contract.

Huge learning curve says Woodford Town boss Safer after Hadley loss

Yesterday, 11:00 Jacob Ranson

Woodford manager Dee Safer during Woodford Town vs Tower Hamlets, Essex Senior League Football at The Harlow Arena on 6th August 2019

Woodford Town endured a tough afternoon in opening Essex Senior Encounter going down 4-0 to a Hadley outfit tipped to be amongst the title favourites this time around.

Sam Cook keep Essex’s Bob Willis Trophy final hopes alive against Middlesex

Yesterday, 07:33

Sam Cook returned season-best figures as Essex’s Bob Willis Trophy final hopes remained on track despite 15 wickets falling on day one at the Cloudfm County Ground, Chelmsford.

Adriana Leon earns point for West Ham Women at Tottenham

Sunday, September 6, 2020

West Ham United's Adriana Leon (centre) celebrates scoring her sides first goal with her teammates during the FA Women's Super League match at The Hive Stadium, London.

Women’s Super League: Tottenham Hotspur 1 West Ham 1

Leyton Orient and West Ham both draw out home ties in Carabao Cup

Sunday, September 6, 2020 Jacob Ranson

Orient manager Ross Embleton during Northampton Town vs Leyton Orient, Friendly Match Football at the PTS Academy Stadium on 22nd August 2020

Leyton Orient have been drawn at home to League One outfit Plymouth Argyle in the second round of the Carabao Cup as neighbours West Ham United draw out Charlton Athletic.

Dagenham boss McMahon pleased with Urchins result

Essex Senior League: Redbridge and Clapton draw while Woodford, Ilford and Bengal suffer defeat

Dagenham & Redbridge seal narrow victory over neighbours Hornchurch

West Ham end pre-season with disappointing Bournemouth defeat

Leyton Orient seal Carabao Cup progress with Forest Green victory

Essex Eagles beaten after Bell-Drummond blitz in Blast

Eat Out to Help Out: Where in east London the most meals were eaten

Sunday, September 6, 2020 Lindsay Jones

The Eat Out to Help Out scheme offered discounts of up to £10 per person every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday during August at participating restaurants across the UK. Picture: PA

Londoners ate more than eight million meals last month as part of the Eat Out to Help Out discount scheme, the Treasury has said as it worked out the number by parliamentary constituency.

‘Ilford is showing the rest of the country what can be done’ - Kenneth More re-opens with first live performance

Monday, August 24, 2020 Roy Chacko

The Kenneth More Theatre celebrated all things theatre at the Grand Re-opening show on Saturday, August 22. Picture: Roy Chacko

Performers at the first post-lockdown show at Ilford’s Kenneth More Theatre received a standing ovation after pledging to not let Covid bring it down.

Take 2 - Kenneth More Theatre set to re-open again after government U-turn cancelled initial post lockdown relaunch

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Roy Chacko

The Kenneth More Theatre is set to re-open for the first time post-lockdown with a celebration of all things theatre. Photo: Geoff Wilkinson

Let’s try that one more time with feeling.

Best of the Music Fest back in Ilford for socially distanced return to live music

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Roy Chacko

The Best of the Music Fest returns for its eighth season as coronavirus restrictions on live events have eased. Picture: Ron Jeffries

Live music is back in Redbridge this weekend with the return of the Best of the Music Fest at Valentines Mansion.

Shake off lockdown funk with speed creating workshop - pairing artists together across Redbridge

Friday, August 14, 2020 Roy Chacko

Redbridge Drama Centre creative director Gemma Eves. Picture: Vision RCL

Want to get your creative juices flowing again?

Writer, 81, returns to childhood home for debut novel featuring Ilford Recorder reporter as key character

Thursday, August 13, 2020 Roy Chacko

Ken Irons (left) and his twin brother Roy - Ken revisited his childhood in Seven Kings for his debut novel Scenes of Crime. Picture: Ken Irons

An 81-year-old man channelled childhood memories of growing up in Seven Kings for his first novel, which features an Ilford Recorder reporter as a key character.

Goodmayes marathon runner Fauja Singh honoured in children’s book

Thursday, August 13, 2020 Roy Chacko

The legendary marathon runner Fauja Singh is the subject of a new children's book. Picture: Penguin Random House

Centenarian marathon runner Fauja Singh MBE has been celebrated in a children’s book encouraging youngsters to go the distance.

Updated Kenneth More Theatre’s re-opening cancelled after last-minute government U-turn

Monday, August 3, 2020 Roy Chacko

The Kenneth More Theatre was planning on being one of the first to stage live performances but had to cancel those plans after government guidelines changed on Friday. Picture: Vision RCL

The Kenneth More Theatre, which had planned to stage its first post-lockdown live performance on Saturday, was forced to postpone it after government guidelines changed on Friday.

Drew Davies: The Wanstead author making waves in women’s fiction

Friday, July 31, 2020 Cash Boyle

Drew Davies' new book - With or Without You - is out this Friday, July 31. Picture: Drew Davies

The new normal has been Drew Davies’ for some time.

Video ‘Celebration of all things theatre’ - Kenneth More to host one of the first live performances in the country

Video Black Lives Matter exhibition by South Woodford artist on display in Oxford Street

Wanstead dance school celebrates 30th anniversary with ‘Super Zoom’ event

Opinion Album review: Hinds – The Prettiest Curse

Life on the inside: 9 ways to get your culture fix this Easter

TV choirmaster Gareth Malone invites you to join virtual singalong

From Theresa May to Tokyo: Award-winning press photographer exhibits love of Asia in Wanstead

From East Meets East by PA photographer Stefan Rousseau. Photo: Stefan Rousseau

Volunteer litter-pickers collect 60 sackfuls of rubbish in Aldborough Hatch spring clean

Redbridge Council provided the rubbish sacks for the Aldborough Hatch spring clean. Picture: Ron Jeffries

Police appeal to trace suspected football hooligans at West Ham v Burnley game

Police are appealing for information to idenitfy these men. Picture: Met Police.

Pupils in Woodford Green dance for Sport Relief

Pupils and staff at Avon House Prep School taking part in their danceathon for Sports Relief

Redbridge Zoroastrians celebrate the coming of spring with feast at home of former mayor

Members of the borough's Zoroastrian community.Photo: Aaron Walawalkar

Mayor of Redbridge’s Community Awards honours borough champions

Geetisha Neermul won the Taking Pride in Redbridge award. Photo: Ellie Hoskins

Redbridge’s Got Talent raises more than £12,000 for the Mayor’s appeal

All award winnders at Redbridge's Got Talent 2018. Photo: Click Print Photos

Holi 2018: Clayhall primary school celebrate

Children at Gilbert Colvin Primary School celebrating Holi by throwing coloured powder at each other

Reception class hatch chicks in their classroom in Gants Hill

Reception children at St Augustine's Infant School looking after the chicks that had hatched in class. Children from Acorn Class with some chicks

Holi 2018: Hindu community celebrate in Goodmayes

Hindu community celebrate Holi in Goodmayes. Photo: Aaron Walawalkar

It’s snow joke: Dog tries sledging in Clayhall

Young people enjoying the slopes in Claybury Park.

Snowy scenes from around Redbridge as captured by Recorder readers

Snowy scenes from across Redbridge submitted by Recorder readers. Photo: Ellena Cruse

Celebrities turn up for re-opening of Robin’s pie and mash shop

Robins Pie & Mash re-opening on Wanstead High Street after a refurbishment. Staff Lilya Maliskaya, Katie Hart, Jane Robins, June Robins, Pearly Queen Doreen Golding and Julie Allpress

Valentines Parkrun celebrates seventh birthday

Pictured are runners taking part in the Valentines Parkrun seventh birthday run. Photo by Louis Du Plessis.

Railway track walk through Newham, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham and Havering raises £6,000 for Isla Caton’s cancer care

Pictured from left to right are: Simon Mackie, Eddie Boateng, Andy Smith, Terry Dorrell and Allison Cameron at Manor Park train station. Photo: Andy Smith

A romance revived: historic former Redbridge cinema hosts Valentine’s movie night

The Embassy Cinema. Photo: RIBA Collections

The power of words: hundreds unite in Redbridge to mark the Holocaust

The Holocaust Memorial Service taking place in Valentines Park. War veteran Leslie Sutton

Do you recognise these items? Police appeal for owners of believed to be stolen goods recovered in Ilford

Item recovered by police in Ilford in November 2017. Photo: Essex Police

Redbridge Primary School joins with Beal High School to tackle air pollution

Beal High School and Redbridge Primary School give their presentations at the Redbridge Airaction seminar.

The magic of Aladdin comes to Gants Hill with Dragon Theatre panto

Dress rehearsal of Aladdin by the Dragon Theatre Company at St George's hall in Gants Hill. Picture: Ellie Hoskins

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WARM WELCOME: Children will be socially distanced in the classroom. Picture: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images

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A butcher’s guide to dry aged meat: what is it and what are its benefits?

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