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LONDON UNDERGROUND: Tube cleaners strike off after "massive breakthrough"
8:36am Thursday 21st August 2008
A ROW over pay which would have seen hundreds of London Underground cleaners down their mops for two days has been averted.
Comments (0)WANSTEAD: Has your dog been poisoned in one of our parks?
1:37pm Thursday 21st August 2008
WITH an animal poisoner thought to be deliberately targeting dogs in Wanstead, the Guardian would like to hear from any other residents who fear their pets may also have fallen victim.
LOUGHTON: Pupils see the stars in GCSE results
1:05pm Thursday 21st August 2008
STAR student Holly Creevy was top of the class after chalking up ten A* grades.
LOUGHTON: Record-breaking GCSE successes
1:06pm Thursday 21st August 2008
EXAM students at Roding Valley High School ensured it was another record-breaking GCSE year.
THE STOW: Chandlers accused of betrayal at SOS march
12:51pm Thursday 21st August 2008
ACCUSATIONS of betrayal and deception were levelled at Walthamstow Stadium's Chandler family at a Save our Stow protest march.
NORTH WEALD: Go-ahead for further phase of golf course work
9:07am Thursday 21st August 2008
HUNDREDS of lorries are to spend three months transporting 100,000 tonnes of soil and other material into a golf club after planning permission was given for further “remodelling” work of the course.
ONGAR: Final go-ahead given for station homes
8:39am Thursday 21st August 2008
FOR many years it has been said that homes would one day be built at Ongar Station, and now final planning permission has been given for 52 properties.
WALTHAM FOREST: Increase in unwanted pets
5:41pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
KITTENS dumped in airless boxes and puppies left on doorsteps are becoming a regular occurance as the economic downturn hits Waltham Forest.
WALTHAMSTOW: Man denies McDonald's murder
3:23pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
A TEENAGER from Walthamstow has appeared in court to deny stabbing a man through the heart outside McDonald's in Oxford Street.
WALTHAM FOREST: Drug and alcohol abuse up in under-25s
4:14pm Wednesday 20th August 2008
ABUSE of drugs and alcohol is on the increase among young people in the borough, figures reveal.
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Brown visits troops in Afghanistan
Updated 8:33pm Thursday 21st August 2008
Gordon Brown hailed British troops fighting the Taliban as the true heroes of the Olympic year.
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