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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 of this site.

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• May Day Ilford Protest
  As part of the annual May Day protests London Animal Action staged a protest at Fairheads in Cranbrook Road, Ilford. They are a London based animal rights group who on this occasion were attempting to halt the sale of fur. Fairheads had signs up in the window saying they did not sell fur.
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• Election results are in!!!!!
  Election results are in!!!!!
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• Man finds pork chop and leg of lamb in river!
  The most LPUNTIFPN story for a long while (local-paper-uninteresting-news-turned-into-front-page-news), from Ilford this year, a man walking his dog finds pork chop and leg of lamb in river.
  
  This has been transformed into a remarkable piece of sensationalist journalism and made front page news in the Ilford Sun.
  
  In summary, a man fished out one of six parcels he spotted floating in the river as he was walking his dog. As his birthday was a long way off, he decided to open it. Looking inside, he found some tasty leg of lamb but got excited that he may have found a dismembered body so he phoned the police. The River Roding was then sealed off, causing much disruption to fish who were turned away as they tried to cross the Police Line. Divers and a helicopter were called in to search the area. The packages were later found to be pork and lamb, most likely dumped by a trader. A Redbridge Council spokesperson said 'it is an extremely unsociable thing to do'. The man was unavailable for comment when asked if he had a tasty dinner that evening.
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• Thieves broke into Ilford Town Hall!
  8pm Tuesday at Ilford Town Hall, just after the council's Labour cabinet was discussing crime and disorder in the building, thieves let themselves in through an open first floor window into the Labour office and stole documents.
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• Local kids in new pop-group!
  In another nail in the coffin for live music and singer-songwriters, a new much media-hyped manufactured pop-group, S Club Juniors has been formed. Two of the eight pre-teen actors in the band come from the area, one from Chigwell and one from Chadwell Heath. I wonder if they will be popular after their voices break? Can you imagine their performances while they are breaking!?!
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