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‘My child won’t stop crying’: Parents shocked as Walthamstow primary slashes SEND support
Parents at Hillyfield Primary Academy say their special needs children lost their one-to-one teaching assistants “overnight” after a staffing review
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Council’s befriending service conducts 534 home visits since launch
Women over the age of 60 make up the largest group of people using the service
Regal Cinema redevelopment on track to finish in autumn 2027
Work has started on redeveloping the former Regal Cinema in Highams Park, an iconic art-deco filmhouse which shut in the 1960s, into a building with a café, flats, and two cinema screens
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Council evicts residents from property at centre of antisocial behaviour complaints
The council’s antisocial behaviour team had received long-running complaints about a property in Leytonstone linked to suspected drug use and dealing
Walthamstow’s Harmony Hall to shut amid 163% rent increase
Harmony Hall in Truro Road will shut on Friday 27th March after its owners said it would no longer offer CREST, the charity which manages the site, a below market rate rent
Concern over slow NHS rollout of weight-loss drugs in London
London Assembly committee warns without faster public provision, more Londoners will encounter health risks from purchasing “skinny jabs” on black market
Measles cases recorded in at least nine London boroughs
Enfield and Haringey continue to be the worst-affected boroughs but a small number of cases have now been confirmed in seven or more others
Raising children in London could become unsustainable, Khan warned
London's population of children aged nine or under has been declining since 2013 even while the overall population continues to rise
Council hands out free water butts to prevent flooding
Households across the borough living in properties at high risk of flooding are being invited to apply for free water butts
Council approves new Walthamstow off-license despite resident pushback
14 objections were lodged against the application, and seven residents attended the meeting in person to urge councillors to reject the scheme over safety and antisocial behaviour concerns
Local refugee charity launches crowdfunder to keep going
The Stories & Supper fundraiser - running from Tuesday 17th to Tuesday 24th March – seeks to raise £6,750 to deliver welcome workshops for refugees, asylum seekers and local residents in Walthamstow
Leytonstone residents call for speed cameras amid dangerous driving in High Road
Following a serious car crash along the High Road yesterday, locals have appealed for speed cameras
Londoners ‘shouldn’t be locked into properties that force them to use air conditioning’
Debate on climate change and London's increasing vulnerability to heatwaves hears that current planning policies are inadequate
Photography: What Mums Eat by Chiron Cole
Local photographer and mother of two Chiron Cole presents intimate photographic portraits that reveal how mothers are actually eating in the early stages of motherhood
Local man fined £11k for smashing Grade II-listed church window
Craig Knight, 50, broke into St Anne's Church in Kew while drunk on 10th January
Khan told to focus on fixing potholes rather than ‘anti-motorist’ schemes
New report from City Hall Conservatives claims borough councils are forced to "dance to the mayor’s tune on how funds are spent" on local transport schemes
Travis Perkins opens three acre site in Leytonstone
The builders' merchant and tool supplier has recently opened a massive branch in Joseph Ray Road
Assembly calls on TfL to install ‘bleed control kits’ on bus network
The proposal also requests first aid training for bus drivers to be rolled out
Four-storey Leytonstone flats rejected for third time amid privacy concerns
The proposed High Road Leytonstone building was unanimously voted down by councillors at a planning committee meeting this week
Stella Creasy slams Labour’s ‘cruel’ refugee plans
The Walthamstow MP is one of many backbenchers who have criticised Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's changes to permanent settlement requirements