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This is not meant to be comprehensive weekly news, for that see Wanstead and Woodford Guardian or similar.

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23 Mar 2004

  • Human remains found in car
    A man who went missing on October 26th 2003 was found last week in the boot of an abandoned car following reports of a bad smell. A son is accused of murdering his 49 year old father.
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03 Feb 2004

  • Woodford Green based teenage hacker walks free
    A teenager from Woodford Green who caused a full-scale alert at a US nuclear weapons laboratory by hacking into it walked free from court. Two years ago, the student, now 18, developed software to crack in to it to use its storage and bandwidth capacity to share files like films and music with his friends. He admitted unauthorised modification of computer material andreceived 200 hours community service.
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  • Ilford woman gives birth to own grandchildren
    A 43 year old woman gave birth to her own grandchildren. Through IVF treatment she because a surrogate mother for her daughter. The parents of the twins live in Ilford but the woman gave birth in India.
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21 Jan 2004

  • Ilford loses monopoly on woolly mammoth finds
    The skull of a woolly mammoth measuring 5ft long has been found in a gravel pit in the Cotswolds. The species became extinct 10,000 years ago. This is the second found in Britain, with the first being found in Ilford in the 19th century.
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05 Jan 2004

  • IVF baby twins die in fire
    Twins, both 22 months old died in a house fire at 2pm, Tuesday 30 Dec at Castleview Gardens. They were asleep at the time. The twins were born after the mother received IVF treatment after eight years of trying to conceive naturally.

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