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.

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• Ilford popularised in top comedy show, the Kumars at No.42
  Ilford was recently popularised in top comedy show, the Kumars at No.42.
  The town was discussed for a whole 60 seconds during a comedy interview with former Eastenders star Tamsin Outhwaite. Tamsin, a self-confessed Gants Hill girl, discusses the institution that is Bodgers on Cranbrook Road, as well as the Exchange shopping mall.
  
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• Ilford's average profit margin amongst businesses is 5.3%
  In a survey by Experian, Ilford has dropped from 78th to 94th in the league of profitability in 2001 from 2000. The list comprised of 404 towns in Britain and ranked the average profit margin amongst businesses. In 2001 the percentages of business in Ilford making a profit was 87% which was 3% up from 2000. The average profit margin was 5.3%. At the top of the list was Bexley Heath with an average profit margin of 15.8%, albeit with 15.1% of its businesses making a loss. Here is the full list of all 404 towns.
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• Bank fined for putting the rubbish out on the wrong day!
  The Natwest bank in Ilford Hill was taken to court by Redbridge Council after they put the rubbish out on the wrong day. Environmental officers found 68 bags of waste (wow!) and 14 boxes at 9:30am on 19th August. They were still there at 4pm the next day when the council decided to remove it because of the obstruction it was causing. The bank says it was because of a mix up with the pick-up time with Biffa the waste disposal company. The bank was fined £1000 + £196.25 costs.
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• Entire cash machine stolen from wall in Newbury Park!
  A hole-in-the-wall cash machine was stolen leaving, well, a hole in the wall from the back of McDonalds at Newbury Park. The Alliance and Leicester machine was ripped out after thieves used a JCB digger to demolish the enclosing building. The amount of money in the machine has not been revealed. This happened 10th December in the early hours of the morning.
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• How could the Mayor refuse?
  Miss Vietnam, fresh from 'competing' in the Miss World competition took time out to have dinner with The Mayor, Cllr Dev Sharma in Wanstead with members of the Vietnamese community. The Mayor, who presumable has a very understanding wife, said he was not only impressed by her beauty, but with her brains. She apparently quizzed him about life in London and the education system.
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