Major News The good and the bad

Here is a selection of Ilford news. Any major stories, national news concerning Ilford or anything that particularly catches the eye you can count on us to tell you! This is not meant to be comprehensive weekly news, for that see Wanstead and Woodford Guardian or similar. Feel free to comment on each story by clicking the link below it! Interpretation and summary by the author of this site.

Valentines Park

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• This week's news in brief!
  This week's news snippets.
• In Valentines park there was an attack with a baton.
• New Woolworth's store has opened where C&A was in Ilford.
• In March, a 17 year old was killed by a train as his attempt to fare-dodge failed. He sneaked into the station via a hole in the fence, and fell onto the tracks.
• The mobile phone mast that was due to be placed on Clayhall Avenue has been rejected on grounds of it being too close to houses and too tall.
• Policemen had to be cut out of their police cars after a high speed ar crash while responding to an emergency call. They were slightly injured.
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• Another armed robbery in Hainault
  At 8am on Monday two men burst into the One Stop Shop foodstore in Hainault. One grabbed the sales assistant at gunpoint while the other demanded she empty the till. They got away with £5,000. The assistant is now recovering at home. Just a week earlier, at a supermarket on the same road there was a burglary worth £3,500. A chemist also on the same parade had an armed robber last year.
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• Postmistriss and clerk accused of £3m benefit fraud
  The fraud involved 30,000 lost or stolen benedit counterfoils being cashed in at their Post Office in Gordon Road, Ilford. This happened between Nov 1998 and May 2000.
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• 103 mile walker for charity returns!
  Brian Hobbs, 49 walked from his home in Bungay, Suffolk to the Barnardos offices in Barkingside. He says "By the end of the walk I was walking like the Tin Man out of the Wizard of Oz". He has done lots of stunts for Barnardos before, like doing a sponsored swim in the icy sea and having his beard shaved off. He "will probably do a parachute jump next"!
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• This week's news snippets!
  As drinkers enjoyed their pints at The George, Wanstead, a crack suddenly appeared in a pillar. All customers were evacuated immediately. The damage is not serious and has been repaired and is now declared safe.
• Mystery man found dead in the underpass between High Road, Ilford and Station Road. Death not being treated as suspicious.
• Man robbed of his laptop while he conducted markey research in Stoneycroft Road, Woodford Bridge.
• Posters for a concert in aid of Whipps Cross Hospital were taken down by a hospital administrator just after they were put up! They were unhygenic and and was violating the anti-litter policy, he/she said. As a result not many people turned up.
• Looks like a 30ft BT Cellnet mobile phone mast will be going up in the corner of Clayhall Avenue and Tiptree Estate. A council spokesperson said "The council can only reject the application on siting and design, not on health grounds or any other reason." If that's correct, haven't we got a serious problem here??? I bet I'd be put in prison if I decided to place a 30ft tower of my own, however nice it looked! - Ed
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