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A RESPECTED vicar has called for better understanding of the true meaning of Easter - to prevent the sacred festival becoming 'secularised' like Christmas. Rev Graham Sawyer, of St Barnabas Church in Woodford Green, said that marking the occasion was "hollow" if people did not know the story of Jesus's death and resurrection. Rev Sawyer, who took up his role at the church in Snakes Lane East last October after preaching for several years in Australia, welcomed the eating chocolate as part of the celeb  

MEMBERS of one of the borough's Safer Neighbourhoods Teams (SNT) helped some law students during a fun workshop last week. A-level students from Woodbridge High School, in St Barnabas Road, Woodford Green, took part in the Police Powers day with officers from Roding ward, as a way of expanding their understanding of how the law is applied in practise. The students were sworn in as police officers during a mock ceremony, before taking part in a role play to experience police stop and search powers in a  

ORION'S Georgia Tuckfield stole the show as Essex won the Inter County Cross Country Championships in the under-13 girls' category in Birmingham at the weekend. Tuckfield finished a stunning second from 305 runners at the national competition, which doubled up as the qualification event for the World Cross Country Championships in Poland. Woodford Green with Essex Ladies athlete Ronnie Sparke also did his chances of earning a place in Great Britain's World Cross Country Championships squad no harm wit  

A HEALTH watchdog has said it will not appeal against the decision to allow two doctors involved in the Carmel Bloom case to continue practising medicine. John Hines and Paul Timmis were ruled 'fit to practise' by a General Medical Council (GMC) panel last month despite admitting to a string of failures in their treatment of Ms Bloom, of Snakes Lane East, Woodford Green, who died following a routine procedure to bypass a urinary tract blockage at the Bupa - now Spire - Roding Hospital, in Clayhall, in 20  

UNION members will picket a Woodford Green primary school tomorrow in a continuing dispute over pay. General workers' union GMB confirmed teaching assistants at Roding Primary School will protest tomorrow morning as part of a second planned walk out. It is believed up to 34 staff will be involved in the strike and the council has said the nursery will close during the day, although the rest of the school will remain open.  

A HAPLESS thief from Buckhurst Hill is facing charges for robbeing a supermarket, after he and another accomplice went to a police station to ask about a third man who had already been arrested for the crime. Conor Thorne, 18, of Cherry Tree Rise in Buckhurst Hill, went to Barkingside police station just hours after the robbery at the nearby branch of Somerfield in the earlier hours of Sunday March 7. It appears they came to ask about the whereabouts of Rocky-Lee Beale, also 18, of Purleigh Way, Woodf  

A MAN from Woodford Green is one of a trio facing charges for robbery, after two of the suspects came to the police station where the third was being held to ask about their accomplice before they too were arrested. Rocky-Lee Beale, 18, of Purleigh Way, Woodford Green, was remanded in custody he and two accomplices broke into a branch of Somerfield in Barkingside High Street. Officers were called at around 2:27am on Sunday March 7 after a nearby residents saw the three breaking into the supermarket.  

PATRONS, trustees and staff attended the re-opening of two newly refurbished facilities at a hospice for sick children this afternoon (Tuesday). The freshly renovated 'Butterfly Suite' and family accommodation were unveiled in front of a group of specially invited guests at Haven House Children's Hospice, in Woodford Green at 2pm. A spokesman for the hospice, in Mallinson Park - which provides care and support for children with life limiting conditions and their families - said: "The Butterfly Suite i  

THE nursery at Roding Primary School will close on March 18 because of strike action, it was confirmed. It has also been confirmed governors at the school, in Roding Lane North, Woodford Green, will meet tonight to consider talks with union GMB. The rest of the school will remain open.  

A MAN and a woman have been jailed following a raid on a cannabis factory in a quiet residential street. Pauline Than Nguyen, 36, and Quang Van Vu, 60, were caught by police during the bust at a house in Wansford Road, Woodford Green in January last year. Officers from Roding Valley Safer Neighbourhoods Team (SNT) arrested the pair on suspicion of cultivating cannabis and illegally abstracting electricity .