Ilford Recorder

1 week ago | ilfordrecorder.co.uk | Mike Brooke

Caitlin and some of the children who created the mural (Image: Redbridge LB) Children have helped create a life-size mural of a prehistoric mammoth with thousands of used plastic bottle tops they collected. They have named the creature Marley which appears on the wall of Ilford’s Clementswood Church in Ilford Lane. The location marks the spot close to where the best-preserved fossil skull and tusks ever found in Britain was discovered by workers in 1864.

3 weeks ago | ilfordrecorder.co.uk | Charlotte Anderson

2 1/1 Queen's Hospital's bid to secure £35m to transform its A&E has been given a boost. Margaret Mullane, MP for Dagenham and Rainham, has started a petition to help secure the investment. The A&E at the hospital - part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) - was designed to support 325 patients a day, but the trust says it now regularly sees more than double its capacity.

4 weeks ago | ilfordrecorder.co.uk | Katie Collier

King Charles spent a "short period" in hospital today (Image: Victoria Jones/PA Wire) The King spent “a short period of observation in hospital” today (March 27) after experiencing side effects from his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace has said. Charles will no longer attend a trip to Birmingham on Friday to allow him to prioritise his recovery. A source described the hospital trip as a “most minor bump in a road that is very much heading in the right direction”.

4 weeks ago | ilfordrecorder.co.uk | Patrick Glover

Great white sharks can grow up to 21 feet in length, weigh up to 4,500 pounds and live for more than 70 years. (Image: Getty Images) There are a number of shark species that can be found in UK waters including Tiger, Nurse and Basking sharks - but what about great whites?

1 month ago | ilfordrecorder.co.uk | Mike Brooke

A film immersing the audience in the life of a six-year-old hospice patient and his brother has premiered. Through Their Eyes shows Haven House Children’s Hospice in Woodford Green from the point of view of Charlie Gill and his close relationship with his older sibling Dylan. It puts the audience directly into their tactile and sensory world and how being at the hospice has forged a special close sibling relationship.