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BUCKHURST HILL: Child sex trial hears "strip poker" claim

8:31am Friday 5th September 2008

A WOMAN broke down as she told a court how a man repeatedly sexually abused her as a child.

WALTHAM FOREST: Filthy restaurants named and shamed

4:22pm Friday 5th September 2008

THE FILTHIEST restaurants in the borough have been named and shamed by the council in a continuing crackdown on food hygiene standards.

WANSTEAD: Man took lethal dose of stolen pills

4:14pm Friday 5th September 2008

A DEPRESSED man died after taking a cocktail of alcohol and pain medication he stole from his family, an inquest heard.

WOODFORD GRN: War hero hit by £5k fine threat

Harry Royds is enraged about his parking ticket.

3:49pm Friday 5th September 2008

A PENSIONER who was slapped with a £100 parking fine after he failed to notice new restrictions on a street where he had been parking for 12 years is threatening to take Redbridge Council to the European Court of Justice.

WALTHAM ABBEY: Car scam gang jailed

3:22pm Friday 5th September 2008

A GANG of car thieves has been jailed for targeting homeowners in a scam worth tens of thousands of pounds.

CHIGWELL: Lead theft Church challenges roof rules

Trevor Jones points to the roof of St Mary’s Church, in Chigwell, from where lead was stolen

3:29pm Friday 5th September 2008

A CHURCH repeatedly targeted by lead thieves is fighting rules which decree that stolen materials must be replaced ‘like for like’.

EPPING: Fuit machines targeted in pub break-in

3:18pm Friday 5th September 2008

POLICE are appealing for information after thieves broke into the George and Dragon pub, in Epping High Street, between midnight and 6am last Wednesday and stole a four-figure sum of cash from its fruit machines.

EPPING FOREST: Police winning war on drugs

3:19pm Friday 5th September 2008

POLICE are winning the war on the problem of drug-users committing crime to fund their habits.

UPSHIRE: Cancer-hit Jade critical of hospital

1:16pm Friday 5th September 2008

BIG Brother celebrity Jade Goody has slammed the care she received at Princess Alexandra Hospital during the diagnosis of her cervical cancer, claiming she was made to feel like a “hypochondriac”.

WALTHAMSTOW: Family pay tribute to crash death man

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1:05pm Friday 5th September 2008

A MOTORBIKE fanatic who had a “heart of gold” and who friends considered the “life and soul of the party” has died in an horrific road crash.


National News

Shannon's mum charged with kidnap

Shannon Matthews went missing on February 19 for 24 days

Updated 8:07pm Friday 5th September 2008

The mother of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews, who went missing for 24 days earlier this year, has been charged with her kidnap and false imprisonment, a court heard.


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