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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• Former Tory MP Neil Hamilton arrested in Ilford for alleged sexual offences
  Former Tory MP Neil Hamilton was arrested with his wife, Christine at Barkingside Police Station on Friday after serious allegations of serious sexual assault.
  
  On May 5 this year they were alleged to have taken part in a rape at a property in Ilford. A 28-year-old college lecturer, claims the couple performed indecent acts on her while a 60-year-old man raped her. The couple have strongly denied the allegations, and think that these allegations are part of a smear campaign against him. There is strong evidence to suggest they were nowhere near the area at the time of the alleged attack.
  
  Coincidentally, Louis Theroux was shadowing the couple for his documentary series and followed them to the police station too.
  
  The couple were interviewed for 5 hours at Barkingside Police Station before being released on bail.
  
  For more information see http://news.bbc.co.uk.
  
  Credit due to Marc Rossiter for bringing this to light so quickly.
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• Car used in the Ealing bomb was bought in Ilford
  The car used in the Ealing bomb on 2 August was bought at an Ilford car dealership. The car, a Saab 9000 Turbo was bought from Assured Car Finance in Green Lane on July 19th. On July 30th it was reported abandoned in the area not to far away from the dealership. Three days later it was used to house the car bomb, which exploded injuring 11 people.
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• 14 year old girl indecently assaulted by five or six men
  A 14 year old girl was indecently assaulted by five or six teenaged black men. They snatched her mobile phone at a bus stop at Centreway, High Road Ilford on July 27th. She was then told that to get the phone back, she had to go somewhere with the group. She believed this and went with them to an alleyway next to Lynton House where they assaulted her for 30 minutes. She did not get the phone back.
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• This week's news in brief!
  Sean Maguire from Seven Kings who has appeared in Eastenders and Grange Hill, begins filming for the US comedy, 'Off Centre'
• A man who was standing outside Sainsburys in Ilford Lane was robbed of his mobile phone and cash. Two thugs approached him on Sunday at 1am.
• A junction at Redbridge Roundabout has made into London's Top 10 of accident blackspots! It had 96 accidents last year.
• Two robbers burst into The Bell pub in Ilford at 3:30am. The landlady was bound and gagged during the robbery. The woman pressed a panic button, while tied up, alerting a friend upstairs. The robbers fled stealing £5,000 in cash.
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• New figures for crime statistics are out
  For April and May this year over the same period last year, here are some crime statistics: Street crime up 7% : Domestic violence up 8% : Burglaries down 16% : Vehicle crime down 6% : Disorder down 1%
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