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Waltham Forest witch prepares to cast a spell
11:27am Wednesday 29th October 2008
This Hallowe’en, witches will be carrying out spells in Waltham Forest – but these are not trick-or-treaters, but pagans celebrating their new year.
Woodford County undecided over US election
8:53am Wednesday 29th October 2008
WITH the eyes of the world fixed firmly on America as the country heads to the polls, reporter Daniel Binns spoke to the residents of Woodford County, Illinois, about the issues that will determine their vote.
When our bovine buddies roamed free
4:54pm Tuesday 28th October 2008
The history of cows in the green lands of Redbridge and Waltham Forest only really ended with the BSE crisis back in 1996. Guardian reporter DANIEL BINNS finds out some udderly surprising things about the past of our bovine buddies.
Hidden letters of wartime love
11:01am Thursday 23rd October 2008
A BUNDLE of love letters found in a suitcase have revealed details of a moving wartime love story.
Tale from the sharp end of the credit crunch
3:07pm Tuesday 21st October 2008
HELP for debt-ridden residents could soon be as hard to find as credit, after Enfield Council announced that the Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) will get no extra cash to fund its work.
Collecting evidence with a real-life CSI
11:38am Tuesday 21st October 2008
WITH his motto of ‘there is no such thing as a perfect crime’ one crime scene investigator has spilled the beans on the gruesome world of police forensics to reporter Charlie Campbell. While fictional Las Vegas detective Gil Grissom continues to entertain TV audiences worldwide in the hit CSI show, Wanstead’s Paul Millen has 30 years of real-life experience and has published a book packed with fascinating true cases.
FEATURE: Council refuses to cut out 'seven sins of jargon'
9:50am Friday 10th October 2008
CIVIL enforcement officers should be called traffic wardens and stakeholder engagement should simply be asking people what they think.
Letters offer rare glimpse of 18th century romance
2:14pm Thursday 9th October 2008
The discovery of a set of love letters between two young people in the 18th century sheds a fascinating light on the romantic stylings of an earlier age, as EDMUND TOBIN discovered.
Rock’n’roll and fighting made a splash at baths
4:10pm Monday 6th October 2008
The old Leyton Baths in High Road, where Tesco now stands, played host in the Swinging Sixties to some of the largest rock ‘n’ roll acts on the planet, as well as being the scene of the odd dust-up between mods and rockers.
Nurse honoured for work in Iraq
10:35am Thursday 2nd October 2008
MANY nurses would find working in Accident and Emergency in London stressful enough.
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