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Everything Epping ForestPage 22 of 25Woman arrested after car crash5.38pm - 8th April 2012A 39-YEAR-OLD woman from east London was arrested following a single car crash onSewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey.A VW Golf was found in a ditch off the road at about 10pm on Friday and the woman,believed to be the driver, was arrested on suspicion of driving above the alcohol limit.She was later charged with failing to provide a specimen for analysis and with assaultinga police officer.She has been bailed to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on April 25.Imogen, 9, makes birthday gift to hospice7.54am - 6th April 2012A GIRL has raised £70 for St Clare Hospice after she asked for donations instead ofpresents for her ninth birthday.Imogen Bedford, from North Weald, wrote a message about wanting to raise money forthe charity on the invitations to her birthday party which was held at the Harlow Bowl.Imogen said: "I'd got a lot of presents already and so I thought it would be nice to givemoney to the charity. "I would really like to give a big thank you to all the parents whodonated the money which I gave to the hospice."Imogen took the money to the Hastingwood-based charity this week, and was given atour of the facilities - and given two knitted Easter chicks which have been on sale in thehospice reception.Imogen's father, Nigel, said: "Imogen really enjoyed handing the money in at the hospice.She had a relative who was being cared for in a hospice in Southend and so she knewthe work that hospices do."After giving her money to the hospice, Imogen still had some birthday money to spend onherself - after her dad gave her £30 as a special treat.Imogen's fundraising for St Clare is not the first time she has raised money for charity.At her school, St John Fisher School in Loughton, she came up with an idea to sell cupcakes for charity - a suggestion which raised money for Shelter.Winning hospice lottery numbers7.54am - 6th April 2012THE winner of this week's £1,000 jackpot in the St Clare Hospice lottery lives in Harlow.The winning number is 818817.The lucky £100 goes to ticket number 468964. The winner lives in Bishop's Stortford.For information about how to join the lottery, visit www.stclarehospice.org.uk or ring01279 773730 (Monday-Friday 9.30am-1.30pm).Chance to see forest bluebells10.27am - 4th April 2012AN area of Loughton is being highlighted as an ideal location to view bluebells in EppingForest.The City of London Corporation has singled out Strawberry Hill in Loughton along withChalet Wood in Wanstead Park and Bluehouse Grove in Chingford as ideal sites to seebluebells.To celebrate the bluebells of Epping Forest, the City of London Corporation has severalevents coming up at The Temple in Wanstead Park.There is an exhibition, 'Out of the Blue' celebrating the Bluebells of Chalet Wood, whichruns until 27 May. The Temple is open weekends only noon-5pm.The exhibition is a miscellany of bluebell images, artwork, folklore and fairies to tie in withthe flowering of Wanstead's very own bluebell wood. This is a free, drop-in event.On Sunday, April 15, 'Out of the Blue', an art afternoon, will be held between 1pm and4pm. Local artist Barbara Sampson will share some simple techniques to help artistscapture the beauty of the bluebells of Chalet Wood. This is a free, drop-in event.On Sunday, April 29, Epping Forest's volunteer photographer Robert Good will be leadinga course on 'Photography around the Forest' from 10am-1pm.Take your camera to photograph buildings, bluebells and wildlife.The course is suitable for anyone who wishes to improve their photography skills. Freeevent, booking required. Ring 020 8508 0028.Some bluebell-themed merchandise will be available to purchase from the Epping ForestCentres at The Temple in Wanstead Park, Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge in Chingfordand the Visitor Centre, High Beach.Visitor services manager Tony Fenwick said: "We're really proud of the beautiful displayour bluebells offer visitors at this time of the year, and we're delighted to be celebratingthis native flora with these great events."For more information, visit www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/eppingforest or contact the EppingForest Visitor Centre, High Beach on 020 8508 0028 or emailepping.forest@cityoflondon.gov.ukEx-music boss helping cancer charity8.23am - 4th April 2012A FORMER managing director of EMI Records UK is using his vast music experience tohelp raise money for Cancer Research UK.Andrew Pryor has come to the aid of Theydon Bois and District Friends of CancerResearch UK by offering to help people sell their vinyl record collections and musicmemorabilia.Andrew worked in the record business for more than 30 years, his career culminating inbeing MD of EMI UK.During that time he worked with artists such as Abba, The Beatles, Queen and NigelKennedy.Andrew said: "Prices have been squeezed by Ebay, GEMM, Netsounds.com and ingeneral by 'baby boomer' generation unloading their collections. However, there are stillgood or very good prices for truly unique, very rare and limited edition items provided theartist is well known, whether from the past or present."Over the last five years Andrew has built up a worldwide set of buyers, such that he canobtain higher prices than the collection owners would be able to.There are committed fan base genres for example Rock and Metal tend to achieve thebest prices.Also memorabilia and merchandise generally sells well due to scarcity, the same criteriaapplies for value as the records.The list of items that can be sold is endless.The top value achieved is generally for artists own items, such as clothing, instrumentsand autographed items.The offer to owners is that they receive up to 85 per cent of receipts with a minimum of 15per cent going to Cancer Research UK.Anyone with any vinyl records that may be of value - and that you wish to sell - cancontact Andrew on 01279 428122 or by emailing andrew-pryor@sky.com01/06/2012
Everything Epping ForestPage 23 of 25MP visits blaze-hit business8.23am - 4th April 2012HARLOW MP Robert Halfon has promised to do everything possible to help businessesin the Nazeing area affected by three recent fires.Mr Halfon, whose Harlow constituency includes Nazeing and Roydon, yesterday(Tuesday) visited the blaze scenes with local Conservative councillor Richard Bassett,and met businessman Chris Harwood whose business on the former Chimes gardencentre site in Old Nazeing Road was involved in the largest of the fires.Mr Halfon said: "Tragically Mr Harwood has lost his business in the fire and faces thedaunting task of rebuilding it once his insurance claim goes through."It was important to go and visit Mr Harwood and I was shocked by what I saw. The firehas devastated his business and I will be doing all I can with Richard Bassett to help MrHarwood and others get back on their feet."Mr Bassett said: "The council supports small businesses like Mr Harwood's and thecouncil will help where it can."Mr Halfon added: "There have been three fires in the Nazeing area recently and it isimportant that we ensure that the police are keeping a watchful eye on what hashappened."I wish Mr Harwood and other businesses affected by this fire all the best and hope thatthey are able to get their businesses operating again sooner rather than later."Woman cut free from crashed car8.55am - 3rd April 2012FIREFIGHTERS had to cut a woman from her car after she hit in fence in Gravel Lane,Chigwell.Two Loughton crews were called out at about 2.30am today and took about half-an-hourto deal with the incident.Artists' work on show in town8.55am - 3rd April 2012WORK by various artists is on display at Loughton Arts Centre, High Road, Loughton,throughout this month.Fifteen artists from Loughton Art Group are exhibiting their work, along with AdrianEckersley whose work is also on show.Visitors are welcome to call in and browse. All the works are for sale.The Arts Centre, next to Lopping Hall, is open Monday-Saturday 9.30am to 4pm.Adrian Eckersley is pictured with his exhibit 'Wet Night Wonder' click hereChigwell School wins chemistry competition8.12am - 3rd April 2012A TEAM from Chigwell School has won the Chemistry Analyst Competition for a secondsuccessive year.This year's competition was held at Queen Mary, University of London.Year 12 students Nicole Landon, from Ilford; Andrew Hankins, from Loughton; andLuthien Liu, from China, carried out a practical which was described as undergraduatestandard and of the seven schools taking part, only two managed to complete theexercise.The judges complimented the team on their combined efforts and particularly Luthien forher practical technique. Andrew Long,Chigwell School's Head of the Sixth Form, said: "The students worked effectively togetherand were praised for their teamwork as well as their individual contributions."We are incredibly proud of their achievement in such a prestigious event."Pupils make their own headlines4.57pm - 2nd April 2012A GROUP of Year 8 and 9 pupils from Bancroft's School, Woodford Green visited TheGuardian newspaper's headquarters in Kings Cross, London.Pupils had been asked to compete in a journalism contest organised by the school - theprize for the best entrants being a day seeing how the professionals put a newspapertogether.The students had to compile their own newspaper front pages, set the news agenda anddecide what stories would The Guardian's readers wake up to, and decide how thestories were to be presented.Students took on the key roles and had to work to deadlines, keeping their pages up-todateas stories continued to break and develop during the day.The end result was a professional printed A3 copy of every student's front page.An unexpected bonus for the budding journalists was a chance to put their interviewingtechniques into practice when visiting Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twiggwatched the children at work.George Hames, 15, the assistant editor of the school's own in-house newspaper, said: "Itwas great to see everyone working together towards their own newspaper."There are some excellent journalists in this group and we can't wait to see what theysend us for our next issue."Travel agents' Easter appeal for hospice4.31pm - 2nd April 2012TRAVEL consultants at Co-op Travel in Epping are running an Easter egg appeal, tocollect chocolate eggs for St Clare Hospice.The High Street branch is also holding an Easter coffee morning - on Saturday, April 7 -and raffle to raise money for the Hastingwood hospice.Staff are asking customers and local businesses to donate Easter eggs to give to peoplebeing cared for at St Clare.The eggs will be delivered to the hospice by branch manager Judith Bates at 3pm onThursday (April 5).Judith said: "We're asking local residents, customers and businesses to give what theycan for our Easter egg appeal. We're hoping to generate a good response from thecommunity."Since we launched the appeal we've already been inundated by businesses wanting tohelp with a donation of Easter eggs so I'm positive it will be a great success."We hope to bring some Easter cheer to people who perhaps aren't able to celebrate it asthey wish."The coffee morning runs from 10am until 1pm with the raffle to be drawn at 1pm.(left to right) Co-op Travel branch manager Judith Bates, travel advisor Lauren01/06/2012
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