With a background in replicating Victorian stained glass and repairing the white glass panels of Big Ben, local resident Tony McCarty was well placed to launch a lockdown enterprise repurposing used wine bottles

Redbridge Museum is inviting Wanstead residents to submit their photos, videos, artwork and stories about life during the coronavirus pandemic.

In 2008, a group of dowsers worked in Wanstead Park to try and find the location of a long-lost Roman structure

The expansion of Wanstead Leisure Centre – to provide a 25m swimming pool and new dance studio – is on track to be completed in late 2022

The Churchill Room at Wanstead Library has been refurbished ahead of the venue’s planned reopening this month.

In the second of two articles, local dog trainers Colin Spence and Sarah McLeod-Cerezo discuss how you can reduce the chance of your dog being stolen, an increasing problem yet to become a specific offence

Having organised a popular Wellness Week in Wanstead six months ago, Elsa Arnold is now launching Wellness Festival 2021, a month of online events to help us all through the final straight of lockdown

A Wanstead nursing home is raising money for Little Lives UK by selling greetings cards featuring designs by local residents

Art Group Wanstead has launched a nature-themed challenge for local residents. Group founder Donna Mizzi introduces the project and explains how you can get involved. Background art by Emma Davies

Wanstead Climate Action is keen to spread the ‘green jobs for all’ message, locally and across the country. Tina Nieman Da Costa explains why it’s time to make the government listen

Redbridge Council are not granting permission for community road closures this year

A mesh fence was erected on Wanstead Flats last month to protect the only breeding skylark population in inner London. Gill James of the Wren Wildlife Group reports on efforts to save these endangered songbirds