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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  Police have set up a squad to crackdown on street crime and anti-social behaviour in Redbridge, Barkingside and Hainault.
• 1500 people were injured in accidents on Redbridge roads last year. Eight were killed.
• A man faces 28 charges in connection with the discovery of a 30 illegal immigrants in the back of a lorry.
• A man found in possession of two petrol bombs has been held in custody. He is charged with having the intent to destroy The Venue night club in the High Road
• Alders, of one of the larger shops in Ilford is set to expand.
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  Man charged with murder after the body of his common law wife was discovered in their new Newbury Park home.
• A 2 ft long World War two Shell was found lying in the road. it was found to be spent.
• Staff at Christchurch Primary School will have to teach some pupils in mobile classrooms when the school year starts next year.
• A woman was forced to hand over the keys to her car after a masked gunmen was found in her garden.
• Pupils at Caterham High school raised £330 for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund by donating money to attend lessons and paying if they were late for school.
• Third Redbridge Healthcare Trust board has a overspent by £951,000 in the last three months.
• The owner of a pharmacy was robbed on the way to deposit takings at the Post Office.
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  Residents in Barkingside plan to set up a vigilante group to deal with thugs in the area.
• Someone fired three shots with an air rifle at man who was checking his car while in Snakes Lane East. Three such instances happened last week where one shot cracked a bus window carrying school children and another where an elderly lady had to run for cover.
• 14 year old schoolgirl groped while walking in Cranbrook Road on Sunday her. He had distinctive clothing - grey woolly hat, pink and striped shirt, sunglasses even though it was raining.
• Mobile phone thefts on the increase - 12 per week now while 4 months ago it was three a week.
• A 15 year old boy and a nine-year-old boy linked to 4 incidents last weekend in Gants Hill and Barkingside.
• Cars with out of date car tax will be towed away this week in a new clampdown.
• Security guard in a supermarket had a shopping trolley thrown at him and he dodged a punch from a shopper.
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  A couple from South Woodford are to reappear before magistrates after being charged with conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants.
• Two high-speed trains narrowly avoided collision near Ilford station.
• Two indecent assaults in the last six weeks in the underpass connecting Woodford Bridge Road and Lord Avenue in Clayhall.
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  Can of drink thrown at nurse in King George's Hospital
• Woman left 10 month old granddaughter in paddling pool to answer a phone call, baby died.
• Unemployed in Redbridge falls 421 in the last year. Now 4,547 or 5.5% of the population are.
• 3 shots fired from airgun on first floor flat at people un Wanstead High Street
• Inspirational Goodmayes Hospital radio DJ dies, aged 80.
• Michelle Collins pops in to Barnardo’s to meet members of the Hamara Family Project's Easter Holiday Play scheme
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