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SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Living history in Hunting Lodge

HOME BUILD: The Hunting Lodge at Chingford (left) which was made with a frame of English oaks (c)

12:49pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

CHINGFORD is steeped in history and perhaps its most famous reminder of the distant past is Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge.

SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Traders' struggle through recession

Traders in Chingford Mount Road celebrate bus lane plans being scrapped

12:59pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE recession may be over, but it has left its mark on people and businesses across the country.

SPOTLIGHT ON CHINGFORD: Follow the Beckham trail

David Beckham

12:44pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE Beckham Trail was created by Waltham Forest Council in 2003 and offers fans a walk around Chingford following the early life of the football superstar.

St Albans MP Anne Main's expenses payback: the full story

Anne Main survives de-selection bid

4:47pm Thursday 4th February 2010

ST Albans MP Anne Main has been invited to apologise and asked pay back thousands of pounds in public money for allowing her daughter to live rent-free at her second home.

St Albans MP: 'Staying in a hotel is soulless'

1:31pm Thursday 4th February 2010

St Albans MP Anne Main preffered to charge the taxpayer for a second home in her constituency than face 'soulless' overnight stays in hotels.

St Albans MP Anne Main to apologise and repay overclaimed expenses

12:47pm Thursday 4th February 2010

St Albans MP Anne Main has agreed to apologise for overclaims on her parliamentary expenses and repay £7,100 in allowances.

Harpenden MP Peter Lilley wins expenses appeal

PeterLilley has been Harpenden MP since leaving St Albans in 1997

12:18pm Thursday 4th February 2010

HARPENDEN MP Peter Lilley has fought off a parliamentary expenses repayment claim of more than £40,000 with the largest successful appeal of any member.

St Albans MP Anne Main's full interview with John Lyon

Anne Main survives de-selection bid

12:21pm Thursday 4th February 2010

Full copy of Anne Main's interview with John Lyons on November 30.

St Albans MP Anne Main also invited to apologise

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12:11pm Thursday 4th February 2010

St Albans MP Anne Main has also been invited to apologise in writing for expenses claims.

St Albans MP Anne Main must repay more than £7,000

11:36am Thursday 4th February 2010

St Albans MP Anne Main has been ordered to pay back £7,100 of taxpayers money following an investigation into Parliamentary expenses.

Victorian antiquarian returns to share knowledge on Epping Forest treasures

11:09am Wednesday 3rd February 2010

AS Epping Forest District Museum prepares for a visit from beyond the grave from Victorian antiquarian William Winters, CLAIRE HACK finds out more about some of the treasures he will speak on.

ST MARY CRAY: Battlefield meeting of milkman and nuclear scientist

Albert Rodbourne

12:20pm Sunday 31st January 2010

From milking cows to fighting on the battlefields of France with one of the greatest scientists of our time. SCOTT MULLINS speaks to the great nephew of a man who met the original ‘atom smasher’.

HISTORY: A look back at library's past

Harrow Green Library 1960

12:41pm Thursday 21st January 2010

AS a popular library celebrates its 50th birthday, CARL BROWN takes a look at the history of the familiar landmark.

A look back at the history of Waltham Forest

2:01pm Thursday 31st December 2009

WALTHAM Forest was once a rural area, whose landscape was dominated by mansion houses and farmland.



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