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News in Newham
 THIS is my final column for the Newham Recorder, ending an association stretching back almost 41 years. The paper started life in a small shop in Green Street with instructions to make a go of it inside a year – or else! Fortunately the target was reached... » MORE
A PLAISTOW man in his sixties is beginning a prison sentence for having obtained more than £28,000 in Housing and Council Tax benefits. He is not the first to be caught with his hand in the public purse and, regrettably, he won t be the last. The court to... » MORE
LOCAL authorities, just like their big brothers in Whitehall, have a poor record on prudence when it comes to employing staff. There was a time when if you wanted a job for life you either worked for the local council or a bank. We all know what s happene... » MORE
WE haven t yet seen the back of January and already the first victim of knife crime in 2009 has been named. Another young life lost. Another family left to grieve. Another senseless, brutal stain on community life. The number of youngsters involved in eve... » MORE
WHY, I was asked recently, do we attach so much importance to supporting a football team? The simple answer was because it matters! That didn t satisfy the questioner, who said: How can it matter when there are far more important things to be concerned a... » MORE
STEPHEN Timms, MP for East Ham, has invited people living in part of his constituency to a meeting on Saturday to discuss antisocial behaviour. Assuming a good number accept, the debate should be lively and it will be interesting to see how the residents... » MORE
MY money would be on Joe Duckworth not voting Conservative at the next General Election. The Tories plan to purge several Town Halls of fat cats who enjoy six-figure salaries. A number would disappear under proposals to have one person leading a group o... » MORE
I PROMISE you, I tried desperately hard to concentrate on only happy things this week. I failed. And one of the reaasons for that can be blamed on a press release from an organisation calling itself Operation Bus Tag, set up by Transport for London and th... » MORE
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THERE was no debating that a Beckton school was the tops in a national competition designed to develop speaking skills. Specialist Language College Kingsford Community School in Kingsford Way took first prize in the Richard Koch Cup national debating co ... more
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