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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• 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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• Move over Hollywood, it's Wanstead's turn.
  A two-part series for Channel 4 is being filmed in Malford Grove, Wanstead. It's about the relationships between two Indian families, and stars Parminder Nagra, the girl from Bend It Like Beckham and the funny guy from East is East and White Teeth, Om Puri.
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• Ilford Luckiest for Lottery Wins!!
  If any of you play the National Lottery you will be pleased to know that Ilford is officially the luckiest town for lottery wins.
  
  We have had 22 winning tickets - or one for every 9,429 players, and a massive winnings total of £44,174,203. 10 millionaires have been created in Ilford, which has 207,448 people old enough to play.
  
  The second luckiest place in the list published by Camelot is Perth in Scotland, which has seen 11 jackpot winning tickets, creating seven millionaires.
  
  The figures include syndicate tickets.
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• News in brief
  The three giant union flags outside Fairheads in Cranbrook road were stolen, although they are protected by by razor wire and are rather high up.
• The Ilford Cricket festival, which noone knows anything about due to lack of publicity, has been moved to Southend from Valentines Park.
• Lonnie Donegan, who had a number one hit with 'My Old Man's a Dustman) has died at the age of 71. He used to live in South Woodford.
• Celebrity, ahem, keep fit instructor 'Mr Motivator' visited West Hatch High School.
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• Double yellow line fiasco!
  Double yellow lines were placed around Aldersbrook Primary School. However, when they are being placed, there was a car in the way. so the workmen had to just work around it. People have been parking in the unpainted gap between the lines, caused by this car! This has been happening for years, a spokesperson for Park Neighbourhood Watch says. He also adds that between 10pm and 10:15pm every day traffic wardens check the spot and if a car does not fit in the gap or even just touches a line, a parking ticket is issued, so if you know about this spot, pick a different time to park there!
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