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 |  | A STING operation to catch a gang of bank machine fraudsters has landed three in jail. Romanian nationals Costica Baluta, 28, Costica Bajor, 37, and Ghiorghita Dumitru, 24, were each jailed for two years by Snaresbrook Crown Court last week after being fo... » MORE
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 A HEADTEACHER who turned a Dagenham comprehensive threatened with closure into one of state education s leading lights has received a knighthood. Paul Grant famously suspended 300 unruly pupils in his first week at the helm of Robert Clack School, Gosfiel...
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 ACTRESS Joanna Lumley has become the patron of an award-winning Dagenham charity which sends tons of garments to developing countries each year with the help of disabled workers. The staunch human rights campaigner, who charmed Gordon Brown into letting G...
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FORD bosses are facing a potential revolt after cutting the pay of agency staff by 10 per cent while granting a 5.25 per cent increase to permanent workers. Management at the 4,500-worker factory in Chequers Lane, Dagenham, received a deluge of complaints...
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 A YOUTH theatre that helped a Barking teenager land a place at a school attended by Daniel Craig and Helen Mirren, faces an uncertain future after suffering funding cutbacks. The 140-strong Broadway Youth Theatre will hold a fun-packed fundraiser on Sunda...
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PRESSURE is mounting on the government to scrap plans to build a supersized prison in Dagenham after the London Assembly unanimously condemned the proposals yesterday (Wednesday). London Assembly members across the political spectrum slammed the Ministr...
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 BECONTREE Primary School scored in the last seconds to be crowned Barking and Dagenham netball champions after beating Beam Primary 4-3 in a thrilling final. The young star players snatched the primary school cup away from the only team they had not beate...
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COMMUTER chaos has already set in after last-ditch efforts to avoid a two-day Tube strike failed. London Underground drivers were set to walk out at 6.59 this evening to begin a 48-hour strike in protest over pay. Workers dashed to get home before the T...
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