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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.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Teacher dies after being scratched by wire bin
  Margaret Edwards, a primary school teacher died in July after an accident at her school where she worked - she was supervising at a sports day when she tripped and scratched her leg on a wire bin. She died 5 days later after the wound became infected by a flash-eating bacteria, suffering from necrotizing fasciitis.
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