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 Christmas lights switch on - IN PICTURES!
  Tonight was the switch on of the Ilford Christmas/seasonal Lights. It took place in the High Road and featured a lantern parade, with the lanterns each made by local children. The road's Christmas lights were then switched on by the Mayor, Cllr Dev Sharma in front of a packed out crowd, mainly young children with their parents. The fun started there as there was a fireworks show on top of The Exchange. Some fireworks were clearly ill-planned and prompted bouts of laughter as some pathetically small ones were set off, barely visible only by the tallest people. There was a machine that sprayed copious amounts of confetti around the High Road, clearly pleasing the kids as the confused ones amongst them attempt to create snowballs and snowmen out of them. There were various live acts - Ram Hans, Eastern Promise, Pat C and Redbridge Gospel Choir. It's good to see the current wave of industrial action did not affect tonight - the street cleaners are currently on strike, and the fireworks commenced just as the country's firemen started their 48 hour strike.
  
  
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• Firework Displays in Redbridge
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• Oh, not that old excuse...
  Forget the old excuse of 'leaves on the line' or even 'the wrong type of snow' for reasons why trains are late, a great excuse was spotted at Ilford train station as to why a ticket machine was out of order: 'This machine is out of service due to infestation of mice.'. A spokesperson explained that a mouse had chewed through a cable in the machine.
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• Redbridge's first strip club gets the green light
  A bar in Redbridge has been given the go ahead to employ strippers. They will have performances before and after the screening of football matches. Some condition shave been imposed, including that there will be a two-metre distance between performer and customer. Perhaps in an attempt to convince people it's a good thing, the licensee has said that a new entry fee would go to fund football training for children in the borough! What do you guys reading this think? Good thing or not?
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• Burglar at large spotted in park
  Whilst early-morning jogging in the park, two off duty police officers spotted a wanted burglar at large. In Barkingside Recreation Ground at 7:30am they sprinted after him, chasing after him through the park and into Cranbrook road and was cought outside Esso petrol station.
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