Updated designs for the new Whipps Cross Hospital – due to be completed in 2026 – have been released by Barts Health NHS Trust.

Woodford Arts Group founder Julia Brett reflects on the winter blues and the seasonal ups and downs of creative motivation

A trust allows you to place assets under the control of chosen trustees, either during your lifetime (by deed) or on your death (by will). Hollie Skipper from local solicitors Wiseman Lee explains

Healthwatch Redbridge is asking people to complete a survey about COVID-19 vaccines

Our community gardeners have been at it again, this time applying their magic to the beds in front of Regency Court on the High Road. And the work will continue throughout winter, says Judy Noble. Photo by Geoff Wilkinson

Woodford and District National Trust Chairman Richard Speller explains why – in normal times – Copped Hall is well worth a visit. It tells a story of history, restoration and engagement

Some South Woodford scribbles from DD, our resident diarist, commentator and observer of all things local

Having embraced Zoom for their fortnightly meetings, Woodford & Wanstead Photographic Society member Alan Simpson gives a snapshot of what the historic club offers to the community

South Woodford Society member Louise Burgess invites you to help plant – and name – the community orchard, and advises how we can all support the group’s work in 2021

Most residents in Redbridge will get a new free wheelie bin this year.

2020 was hard. It’s important to lament all that was lost – livelihoods, lives, opportunities – but as we begin a new year, we can look forward with hope, says Rev Abi Todd of Holy Trinity Church, South Woodford

In the second of two articles, Sadayeen Khan, secretary of Redbridge Neighbourhood Watch (NHW), encourages more residents to report anything suspicious