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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
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- A letter to Ilford is worth £500!!
A letter dated in 1911 sent to Mrs Noble in Colenso Road, Seven Kings is expected to reach £500 at auction. It came from Tuvalu in the West Pacific, formally the Ellice Islands. It is so valuable because there was a stamp shortage at the time and was marked with ink marks instead and that there is very litle mail from the Ellice Islands in existance. My financial advice to you, dear readers, is to save all thouce council tax, gas and electric bills, for you never know, in 91 years you could be a millionnaire.
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- Teddy Sheringham and Rio Ferdinand film advert in Seven Kings!
Footballers Teddy Sheringham and Rio Ferdinand partially filmed a McDonalds advert in a branch at High Road, Seven Kings, Ilford. The TV adverts are to be screened during the World Cup and show the pair attacked by a dog and injured in a car crash. The bit filmed in the restaurant was a scene where they are covered in bandages. Rio was also filmed running through Mayesbrook Park in Dagenham.
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- Water leak fixed after 12 months!
Seven houses in Fairlop had low water pressure for a year after a pipe leak, rendering them unable to run showers, washing machines and baths. The problem has now been fixed, but I have seen some differing reports as to how it got fixed. Thames Water would not fix it as because the leak was beyond the 'outside stop valve' so required payment to fix it. Some residents agreed to pay but some didn't so there was no work done.
The Ilford Recorder and another report I have seen states that MP Linda Perham used her influence to talk to Thames Water and as a result of this it got fixed. However the Ilford Recorder quoted a Thames Water spokesman in the next paragraph saying that 'they agreed to pay when the problem worsened and they ran out of water altogether. The final price was £300 per property'. So what exactly did Linda Perham do? It sounds to me like she merely convinced the residents to pay up! If you can clarify matters, please add a comment to this story below!
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- Redbridge Mayor farce!
Last week, Cllr Dev Sharma was installed as the new Mayor of Redbridge. Just two weeks later he has been forced to resign. How embarrassing! The problem is that he has a psychologist job working for one local authority (Newham Council) and does not hold a certificate allowing him to be a councillor in a different local authority (Redbridge Council). Formerly, he was Labour cabinet minister of our Newbury ward in 1994 and it is currently unknown if he had one then! So not only was he not allowed to be Mayor of Redbridge but he may not have even allowed to be councillor! However, it is likely that he had one in 1994 but it has subsequently expired. Loser of the recent election, Cllr Javed, says he believed it was valid in 1994. But was it? Watch this space...
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- Whipps Cross vomiting bug
A vomiting and diarrhoea bug has hit Whipps Cross Hospital. Yesterday, approximately 30 members of staff were ill with it but today 60 are. It also affects 78 patients. 12 wards have closed to new cases to try to contain the thing. The estimated length of the queue for the toilet is 87 metres and air freshener is highly recommended.
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