ilford

Beginning of Autumn, middle of the week, end of Wednesday news.

Tuesday news. Make sure you check out those mayoral candidates on the last entry…

A round-up of London-shaped, post-Christmas, pre-New Year, mid-sales news stories.

Police raids: 28 children have been rescued after a Roma trafficking gang was busted in Ilford. Delightfully silly non-story of the day: the case of the missing 7′ screwdriver. Brixton’s Black Heritage Centre has gotten itself some much needed funding. Angela Hartnett has bought Murano …

London has its first official tartan. Police have raised an official eyebrow over Jewish security patrols in Stamford Hill. Want to win the lottery? Move to Ilford. Pity the staff at Goldman Sachs: their bonuses have been capped at £1m… …whilst RBS fat cats are …

bojo environmental wotsit On Monday night Bo-jo will be jumping a-top his trusty Marin Fairfax and peddling his way up to Ilford for an open question-and-answer session on all things environmental. It may be worth heading up there for 7pm, for three reasons: 1) To …

Chislehurst in Bromley is famous for its man-made cave system, but now has other connections to the underworld. According to new ‘research’, the town rules the UK for car crime. 3.8% of local motorists made insurance claims for break-ins or theft over the past year …

Photo by ro_nya Thames Water have fessed up to a small tunnelling accident which left 50,000 east London homes without phone or internet services and shut off traffic lights at the start of April. The water company, who achieved the hard-won title of Worst Polluter …

Do you dread walking down Brick Lane because of the torrent of curry touters? Well fear not ASBOshave started being handed out to persistent touters! Who knew! As well as wasting time, facebook has proved it has it’s worth by helping to catch a diamond …