Visitors are being asked not to pick or trample on Epping Forest’s native English bluebells

Wanstead’s Tin in a Bin charity – which celebrates its third anniversary this month – has partnered with Redbridge Council to help feed more children during the school holidays. Suzanne Paterson reports

More than 45 people attended a Wanstead Climate Action community discussion earlier this month

Redbridge Council’s garden waste collections will resume from 3 April

Parents still have time to book their children to attend the Easter Holiday Activities and Food programme in Redbridge

Last month, over 250 residents attended a public meeting to discuss the future of Wanstead Youth Centre with Redbridge Council. Kate Sloan from the Save Our Wanstead Youth Centre campaign reports

A Wanstead Community Coronation Festival will take place on 7 May

Stand-up comedian Stephen Catling will be performing in Wanstead this April as part of the Laugh-Able Comedy Night to mark Autism Awareness Month. He believes people with autism need to speak up  I am autistic and came from the North to live in London in 2016. I have been a comedian performing regularly on the London and general UK circuit since 2017. I am known for being an alternative act, who uses clowning and inventiveness on stage on the mainstream circuit. I’ve achieved several accolades including at the Stand-up for Cider comedy competition (finalist, 2023) and from both the South Coast Comedy Awards and the Student Comedy Awards (semi-finalist, 2022). My earliest pathway into comedy was through watching Monty Python in high school, where friends and I wrote our own Pythonesque parodies of biblical stories, such as Noah’s Tardis. But I didn’t start performing solo until...

Plans to build two blocks of flats on Snaresbrook Station car park were approved earlier this month

A large cedar tree at the Shrubbery apartment blocks on Grosvenor Road has been felled

If we all love living in Wanstead as much as we say we do, then we all need to do more about the litter problem. It’s not the council’s job to clear up what we can’t be bothered to, says Jennie O’Beirne

The Epping Forest Heritage Trust will host a guided walk through Wanstead Park on in April