The ninth Wanstead Fringe – which runs from 9 to 25 September – will include the first Wanstead Book Festival. Here, Giles Wilson offers a glimpse of some of the writers taking part

Redbridge Museum will open a new permanent exhibition later this year exploring 200,000 years of local history. In the seventh of a series of articles, Museum Officer Nishat Alam looks at some of the items on show

Art Group Wanstead’s monthly pop-up exhibition on Christ Church Green will return on 14 August

Redbridge's Disability Awareness Festival returns to Christ Church Green this month. There will be information stalls, activities for people of all abilities… and a Freddie Mercury tribute act, says Sophie Donelan

Tim Harris from the Wren Wildlife Group describes some of our most fascinating insects: dragonflies and damselflies, which thrive in Wanstead Park, like this four-spotted chaser photographed at Perch Pond

Haven House Children’s Hospice is inviting residents to sign up for this year’s Sparkle Walk.

A consultation on London City Airport’s expansion plans is open until 9 September

Volunteers joined Vision RCL’s nature conservation rangers last month to remove the invasive weed

Iain Ambler updates on the recently restored Redbridge Lane West allotment pond, which has become a biodiversity hotspot. Photo by Stephen Lines

Property sales should be plain sailing, but can sometimes go wrong. Not telling the truth about some aspect of the sale can cause great upset, says Derek Inkpin from local solicitors Wiseman Lee

Local resident and mental health campaigner Elsa Arnold was highly commended at the Million Minutes Celebrating Young People Awards

A new series of police pop-up hubs have launched across Redbridge