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Hooks Hall Pond in Dagenham’s Eastbrookend Country Park was given a new lease of life by the members of the London Community Rehabilitation Company (LCRC) to revitalise the area.

Eastbrookend’s Park Rangers were awarded funding to the sum of £2,000 from Tesco’s, Bags of Help scheme. This was used to purchase timber and other materials, to spruce up the area of Hooks Hall Pond.

Applications are now open for Barking and Dagenham’s new Selective Licensing Scheme which will protect tenants, and make sure everyone can live in safe and well managed homes. 

A Wembley-based business and its director have been ordered to pay almost £43,000 for supplying illegal cosmetics to retailers in Barking and Dagenham. 

Beauty Star Ltd, of Wembley Park Business Centre, and the company’s director Paul Harinder Singh were found guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 19 July for importing and providing products that didn’t meet strict EU safety regulations. 

A scheme offering free NHS ‘MOTs’ that help spot a range of health conditions has been extended to include eight additional venues in Barking and Dagenham.

The nationwide programme, which is available to people between the ages of 40 and 74 who do not have a pre-existing condition, offers the chance to have a health check-up intended to identify stroke, kidney and heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia.

Hey, hey are you ready to play? It’s time to come out to play for National Play Day.

On Wednesday 7 August, Valence Park will be hosting National Play Day for children and families in Barking and Dagenham. 

Kicking off at 11am, there will be something for all children to get involved in at the FREE event including arts and crafts, soft play, inflatables, face painting and much more.

Pupils from a Barking and Dagenham school, Hunters Hall Primary, took part in the first ever Cbeebies Children’s Choir.

The event took place at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall last week when the pupils teamed up with schools from across the country and performed to an audience of over 5000 people.

Alongside Europe’s first black and minority ethnic orchestra: ‘Chineke’, the choir performed to the theme ‘A Musical Journey to the Moon’, a celebration of the 50 year anniversary since Neil Armstrong first set foot on earth’s natural satellite.

An 18th century painting stolen from Valence House during a burglary has been returned to the museum - almost half a century after it was taken.

The oil painting of Rear Admiral Charles Fanshawe was one of six family portraits looted during a break-in in September 1971.

The thieves made off with the pictures, which had been valued at more than £1,500 at the time, in a stolen council van and despite having little evidence to go on, the Met Police quickly recovered two of the missing pieces along with all six frames. 

A Barking shop owner have been fined £1,000 for illegally selling alcohol to two underage teenagers.

 

3D Food and Wine Ltd trading as Westbury News on 180-184 Ripple Road, Barking, sold a bottle of WKD Blue Original to two 14 year olds without confirming their ages or asking for identification.



The offence took place on Thursday 12 April 2018 during a routine test purchase exercise carried out by the council’s Trading Standards officers. 

 

Last weekend, 20 and 21 July, Barking and Dagenham did the time warp back to the 80s with the One Borough Festival, followed by the Roundhouse Music Festival, which turned things all the way up to 11! 

Last week Riverside Secondary School had a special visit as they welcomed students and staff from a school in China.

Visiting from Beijing Capital Normal High School, the Chinese students spent three days at the Barking School to experience English culture and school life.

As the students wanted to learn about life in an English school, each pupil was buddied up with a young person from the Riverside on their first day and spent a large part of their visit in lessons with their buddies.