The Leader of Redbridge Council, Councillor Jas Athwal, responds to residents’ concerns over the future of Wanstead Youth Centre and addresses the council’s budgeting for leisure facilities in the borough

The first-ever Wanstead Beer Festival will take place later this year

Sarah Thornley from Thames21 invites you to help clean up a stretch of the River Roding adjacent to Wanstead Park as part of Plasticblitz 2023, an annual mass cleanup of UK water bodies

Dates for this year’s Wanstead Fringe have been announced, with events spanning three weeks instead of the usual two

A statement from the Wren Wildlife Group about this year’s bluebell season in Wanstead Park

A monthly comedy night at Wanstead Library will include sign language interpreters at the event on 7 June

The annual Wanstead Festival will return to Christ Church Green this September

Wanstead High School music teacher Ian Sweet has been named Secondary School Teacher of the Year

An estimated 20,000 people joined street parties and events across Redbridge

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A number of residents from the Aldersbrook and Lakehouse Estates are preparing to open their gardens again this summer for the annual Aldersbrook Open Garden Trail. Ruth Martin reports

The latest novel by Peter Chegwidden is a tale of love and tragedy which draws on memories of growing up in Wanstead and South Woodford in the 1950s and 1960s. Here, the author shares some of those memories