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Happy New Year! First podcast for 2021 – Listen again to our Community News Bulletins as a podcast.
January’s local stories included;
- BHRUT “Under Significant Pressure” to treat COVID patients.
- Essex Police respond to over 300 COVID related crimes so far in 2021.
- Children welcomes to join Havering Young Astrometry Club
- Teenager donates over £300 of goods to foodbank.
- Wansted Christmas Bakers raise funds for Haven House Children’s Hospice
- Several local people have been awarded in the Queen’s New Years Honours.
- Havering School Applications open.
- Over 40% household waste in Havering is Food Waste.
- Fraudsters pretended to be NHS Vaccination Service in attempt to scam people out of cash.
- Havering Council Libraries closed in new lockdown restrictions, but offer delivery & online services.
- DP World & Forth Ports enter bit for Thames Freeport as part of a ‘Global Britain’.
- Electrical & Engineering Apprentices to be trained at New City College in Ardleigh Green.
- Developments at Ilford Train Depot to be completed in 2021 to accommodate new trains.
- Hornchurch Personal Trainer wins £10,000 on TV show Family Fortunes.
- Police Detective release footage following shooting (in October) in Collier Row
- New data shows gap in Disability Blue Badges being awarded to people with non-visible disabilities, compared to those with visible ones.
- £20,000 raised to repair Tudor Church that was used in illegal New Years Rave.
- “Be Nice To Your Noggin” – New Mental Health Campaign from Havering Council & Havering Mind.
- Highways England seek local businesses in London, Essex & Kent to be involved in Lower Thames Crossing
- Council Leaders across North East London are appealing to places of worship to move services online during lockdown.
- Havering witnesses Flooding following heavy & constant rainfall.
- Barking & Dagenham Council to restrict access to some motorists at Barking Station to cut congestion.
- Lifeline Projects (Dagenham) received Lottery Funding to help people across East London
- Follow Alleged boundary ‘Gerrymandering’ in Havering, officials drop & re-draw proposals.
- New Test & Vaccination programme to protect Redbridge Rough Sleepers
- Public invited to ask questions on archaeological dig at Padnall Lake in Marks Gate.
- NEFLT transforms ward in Brentwood Community Hospital to COVID recovery ward.
- Havering local political oppose ‘London Boundary Charge’ proposals from the TFL Sustainability Plan.
- De-Rougemont Manor in Warley (Brentwood) to be transformed into Homes.
- Barking & Dagenham Council support creation of Thames Freeport, with Ford Dagenham Plant at it’s heart.
- Free Parking for NHS & Key Works across Barking & Dagenham extended until March.
- Barking & Dagenham Council seek powers to stop rooftop extensions to stop poor quality developments.
- Over 400 Havering residents have signed up to volunteer with the COVID vaccination programme.
- Thames Chase Community Forest receive £12.1Million towards 500 Hectors of new trees.
- Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch start storytelling workshops over the phone.
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