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Mitchells Miracles is hosting a community event at Raphaels Park in Romford on June 22nd, 2024. The event features over 40 local business stalls, entertainment, and activities for all ages. The charity is also seeking volunteers for various roles. This is a great opportunity to support a worthy cause while enjoying a fun day out.
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Executed as part of the Clear Hold Build initiative, targeting organised crime and drugs supply, officers gained entry to the warehouse and found it to contain a large-scale Cannabis factory. Inside officers found 1600 Cannabis plants, with a potential street value of £1m
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New and prospective residents of the Park Rise retirement village enjoyed an informative gardening event last weekend to learn about making the most of their new balconies.
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Saturday parkrun crowds are taking over London, which could be a growing concern for Havering locals as new research reveals that Raphael parkrun is the fifth most crowded location for the weekly event in the city.
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I couldn’t believe what I saw, every vehicle except one with a blue badge had a parking fine on it.
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Brought to you by Romford artist David Shearing who created The Rising Sun and New Beginning, David has made an exciting new art installation – in keeping with The People’s Kitchen theme – titled WORLD KIOSK, Bringing the World a Little Bit Closer.
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“This proposed development should be rejected on planning grounds. It would be an overdevelopment and the town houses would be overlooking a number of existing houses in Maytree Close, several others in Stanley Road North that back on to the site and three more houses in Betterton Road.
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This Weekend, level one of The Mercury Shopping Centre was transformed into a miniature utopia by over 200 children and families putting their mark on an ‘imaginary Romford’ built from scratch with the ideas of kids. Imagine if instead of a shopping centre we had a zoo, or we had more bookshops? Or even an airport?
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Thomas, 37, of no fixed address, was sentenced at Barkingside Magistrates Court on to the 12 weeks imprisonment after officers found him breaching the conditions of his Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) last week.
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A local Met officer has been stabbed while responding to reports of a man armed with a knife in Mandeville Road, Enfield yesterday, Tuesday 16 April.
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The tri borough policing method was heavily criticised by many including Havering residents who feared that the two other boroughs, in this case Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham, would take precedent over Havering in the need for more policing
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A serial burglar who targeted properties across east London on Christmas Day has been jailed for six years.
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Labour Parliamentary Prospective Candidate for Dagenham and Rainham, Margaret Mullane’s saw that the grassed amenity area close to the Rainham library was badly overgrown. This piece of land bears the memorial to a tragic event in Rainham’s history.
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NHS North East London (NEL) is facing a budget deficit of almost £37million as “very significant financial pressures” continue to weigh on the health body.
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Havering Council’s Cabinet has formally approved a revised Havering Climate Change Action Plan (HCCAP) for 2024 to 2027
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New City College students and staff showed true community spirit when they played hosts to members of the Havering Parkinson’s UK branch to put on a fun-filled day of education and entertainment.
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A former Metropolitan Police officer has hit out at the next wave of so called ‘pop up protests’ by environmental groups stating that they are becoming unsustainable for police officers and dragging cops away from detecting crime.
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Under the Mayor of London’s tenure, crime has skyrocketed, leaving communities like Romford vulnerable and unsafe. A recent crime wave in Gidea Park and a stabbing in Romford have created an atmosphere of fear that I am not prepared to tolerate in Romford.
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The daughter of a Hornchurch pensioner is baffled as to why Havering Council have knocked back her father’s appeal for a blue badge three times despite him having numerous health concerns that stop him from walking well.
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Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Dagenham and Rainham, Margaret Mullane has contacted c2c to call for an improvement to the facilities at Rainham station.
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