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Legendary street artists transform Ilford

Redbridge Council | Gallery

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A four-year passion project from a pair of residents working with Redbridge Council has resulted in internationally-renowned street artists transforming Ilford Town as part of a regeneration project. Tom and Rieko Vining set up the social...

Ilford BID host webinar for businesses on coronavirus roadmap

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Ilford BID hosts webinar to help businesses out of lockdown

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Wes Streeting MP is calling on Rishi Sunak to create a "smart" furlough scheme and extending the SEISS to excluded people who only have a 2019/20 tax return ahead of the budget.

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More than 11,000 jobs at risk in Ilford North, MP says

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Four men aged between 23 and 39 were arrested on suspicion of facilitating immigration following a r

Metropolitan Police

Man arrested in east London for terrorist offences

Tom Ambrose

Members of Kent Fire and Rescue Service deliver coronavirus testing kits in Maidstone, Kent, during

Coronavirus | Updated

South African Covid variant found in Ilford, 'surge testing' to begin

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Mikaeel Ishaaq and Ayaan Moosa, aka the Lemonade for Yemen-aid boys got a surprise message from Stormzy and their favourite footballers when they received a special Gold Blue Peter badge.

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Stormzy surprises 'Lemonade for Yemen-Aid' boys with Gold Blue Peter badges

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Staff in east London care homes monitoring residents' health

Care home patients being linked to GPs directly to monitor their health

Mike Brooke

Valentines Park is set to be the venue of outdoor movie screenings this summer, like this one hosted by Adventure Cinema in Chirk Castle.

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Classic movie screenings coming to Valentines Park this summer

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Police have put out a new appeal to find Stefana Otilia Malinici, a mother who went missing from Barking in 2017.

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Appeal to find Barking mother-of-two who went missing in 2017

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Saivithyan Thayan who did a charity walk for TZ Rising and Children in Need and donates all his birthday money to an orphanage is this month's Young Citizen nominee.

Young Citizen Award

Young Citizen: Clayhall boy donates birthday money to orphanage

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Award nominee Yashmin Harun. Picture: Vision Redbridge, Culture and Leisure.

Council

Council pledges to act on 'thoughtful' recommendations of Growth Commission

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Police at the scene in Quinton Road, Needham Market, where a woman in her 30s was stabbed Picture:

Teen guilty of 'frenzied' knife attack on sleeping woman

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The Balfour Road mosque was transformed into a pop-up vaccine centre. Cllr Shoaib Patel was one of the lucky recipients to receive the jab.

Health | Updated

Ilford mosque and cemetery transformed into pop-up vaccine clinic

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Farooque Azad received a PCN for turning onto a restricted school street because someone had maliciously turned sign the wrong way around.

Redbridge Council

Ilford driver slapped with fine after vandal turns sign around

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Police dog Hugo

Metropolitan Police

Hero police dog collars suspected drug dealer armed with Samurai sword

Tom Ambrose

Prime Minister Boris Johnson giving his speech to Parliament, in in the House of Commons, London, ab

Coronavirus

What are the 4 stages of easing coronavirus restrictions?

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Clayhall Neighbourhood Group opposes the council's School Streets plan in Clayhall

Redbridge Council

Clayhall residents oppose School Streets plan

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service

Since the Marjorie Collins Multiple Sclerosis Day Centre can't host any in-person charity events volunteer Kitty Sajjan is hosting a virtual cake sale.

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Virtual cake sale to raise funds for Redbridge MS centre

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Have you seen this man who police are trying to trace in connection with a brutal gang rape in Ilford?

Crime

Appeal to trace man following brutal Ilford gang rape

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Special preparations are being made for nonessential shops to reopen on June 15. Picture: Dharam Sah

Redbridge Council

Ilford BID and council host webinar on roadmap to reopen Ilford businesses

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A crime scene was in place on Saturday in Broomhill Road after a man suffered head injuries following an assault.

Crime

Man suffers head injuries in assault in Goodmayes

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Woodford Green man rewrites piano classics for stroke victims

People

Stroke survivor playing piano again thanks to musical rewrites

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Jimmy Greaves at Barkingside FC in 2010 with late committee member Martin Meyers.

Reader Letters | Opinion

Covid, Greavsie, Fairlop Waters, driving charges, cats and Barnardo's

Readers' letters

Rev Kate Lovesey, of St Peter's Church, Aldborough Hatch. Picture Kate Lovesey

Coronavirus | Opinion

Show compassion to yourself

Rev Kate Lovesey, St Peter's Church Aldborough Hatch

Jan Smith, Saint Francis Hospice volunteer

From superheroes to Easter chicks - knitting in aid of hospice

Jan Smith, Saint Francis Hospice volunteer

South Ilford MP Sam Tarry hosted a virtual session for constituents with the Shadow Secretary of Sta

Coronavirus | Opinion

Vaccinations offer a ray of hope for us all

Sam Tarry MP, Ilford South

NHS regional director visits Redbridge vaccine centre alongside Ilford South MP

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London's NHS director visits vaccination centre with MP Sam Tarry

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A photograph of a woman relaxing in bed with headphones in

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Coronavirus: How to look after your mental wellbeing

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Queen's and King George Hospital are both run by the trust. Picture credit: Archant.

Coronavirus

Covid deaths continue to fall at Queen's and King George hospitals

Tom Ambrose

Marion Zargel has her Covid vaccination at Vi and John Rubens House

Coronavirus

More Redbridge and Havering people vaccinated than anywhere else in east...

Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporting Service