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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• The Disturbing Costs of Fireworks Night
  Here is a summary of this year's firework related incidents that happened in Redbridge:
• Wednesday: Arson attack on fireworks shop causing £4000 in damage - people broke in and lit a selection in the middle of the store. Four fire engines were used and a coupld and a baby in the flat above the shop had to be rescued.
• Four cars set alight in Ilford on Monday.
• Bins set alight in Perryman's Farm Road
• Block of garages gutted by fire in Mansfield Road
• Firework through letterbox of an air conditioning firm.
• Three Royal Mail postboxes had fireworks inserted.
• Park pavillion set alight in Seven Kings Park. Two fire engines needed.
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• Not much happened this week but click to read what did
  A 26 year old mother in Islamic dress had an unspecified liquid thrown into her face in Barley Lane by a passenger in a white van. It did not cause any harm to her.
• A gang of 6 teenagers indecently assaulted two 16-year old girls at the Clements Road/High road junction before walking off laughing.
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• A woman came face-to-face with an intruder in her own Redbridge home
  A woman came face-to-face with an intruder in her home. A 48 year old woman was praying in her bedroom when she heard a noise. She investigated and bumped uno a thug on her landing at 2.07am. The weapon he had was about a foot long and was a hammer or an axe. Her screams unnerved the thief and he fled empty handed.
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• Former Redbridge student wins £500,000 on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'
  A former Redbridge student wins £500,000 on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'. Peter Spyrides, a former pupil of Forest School, Snaresbrook said:
  
  "the £500,000 question was a history one, and fortunately we had covered that period when I studied at School. So thanks to the education I received there, I'm £500,000 better off."
  
  He plans to spend his winnings on a new car and a big house.
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• News in brief for the 4th week in October
  Former Ursuline High student Lisa Burke, 24, has been named Britain's sexiest weathergirl, beating the likes of Denise Van Outen and Ulrika Jonnson. She works on Sky News and won 25% of votes on a poll of 1000 men.
• An elderly lady had a display-type firework put through her letterbox. It was a 'twin blast proton bomb' and used for prefessional displays. She was on the phone when she was a man peering through her window. Moments later the ignited firework was put through the letterbox and it blasted off, smashing vases and the front hallway window was blown out. She did not sufer any serious injury.
• The referee who invented red and yellow cards has died. Ken Aston, 86 of Barkingside who died at King Georges Hospital. He was chairman of FIFA's refereeing committee, was responsible for appointing officials for 1970 and 1974 World Cup Finals and for drawing up rules for the penalty shootout.
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