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Redbridge entrepreneurs offer lifeline to uni-bound students

YOUNG entrepreneurs are ready to showcase their product to the world, three years after dreaming up a solution to the headaches faced by university-bound students every year. At 70cm high and 45cm deep, Unisak looks unassuming, but it s founder cannot hid... » MORE

Goodmayes woman scales Mt Kilimanjaro for orphans

AN ADVENTUROUS fundraiser has climbed Mt Kilimanjaro for charity. Alison Carter, of Kingswood Road, Goodmayes, made the trip to Tanzania on August 4 to start her climb. Her journey lasted seven days – five days climbing and two days returning to base. The...
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Five evacuated as fire breaks out in Ilford

FIVE people were led to safety after a blaze broke out in a shed last night. The lean-to was found completely alight when firefighters from Ilford station arrived at the scene in York Mews, Ilford, around 11pm. The five people, who were inside a flat, w...
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Campaigner battles to get fair deal for disabled commuters

A DISABILITY campaigner has called for transport bosses to improve their services in Redbridge. Sulaiman Khan, 25, of Spring Gardens, Woodford Green, has severe muscular dystrophy, meaning he is confined to a wheelchair and dependant on carers. His battle...
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Sex disease high among Redbridge's young

TWENTY-five times as many 15-24-year-olds in Redbridge have the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia than those aged over 25. The shocking figures released last week by the Health Protection Agency has kick-started a debate on whether sex education in...
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Redbridge councillor pays £2,000 to 'save' family holiday

A councillor has been forced to pay thousands of pounds to rescue a long-awaited family holiday overseas after travel company Kiss Flights collapsed. Loxford s Cllr Filly Maravala booked the week-long trip to the Spanish sunshine island of Lanzarote three...
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Man spared jail after Barkingside knife stand-off

A SUPERMARKET worker who terrified shoppers when he rushed at police with two knives during a stand-off in the car park has been spared jail. Haseeb Zafar, 22, ranted about being framed for a terrorist plot to police while brandishing a 10in hunting knife...
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Gran returns to Hainault home after 50 years away

A GRANDMOTHER returned to the home she was born in – half a century after she last stepped inside. Carole Cooper has long wanted to visit the home in Colvin Gardens, Hainault, that she lived in for the first 17 years of her life. Despite driving past the...
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