Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter. They contain plastic and put toxic chemicals, including arsenic, lead and nicotine, into our oceans. There aren’t always dustbins or ashtrays around and dropping them into drains is pretty much the worst thing you can do with them – it’s a fast-track to our rivers and the sea. Fortunately, there is […]
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Reported gun and knife crime in Epping Forest are up 50%. We say that with cuts to police, education and youth services that’s not surprising.
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Waltham Abbey residents have approached us to look at the lack of Electric Vehicle Charging Points in our town. We’ve written to councillors at Town, District and County levels requesting a meeting to discuss the issue but we’d like to see how many people are affected and how much support there is for increasing the number of charging points. Could you please […]
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It’s been a good couple of days for Waltham Abbey Greens with three new members joining and lots of support for our campaigning work. Issues raised on our Sun Street Saturday stall today included: The Next.plc planning application – people stopped by to sign the petition who only know about it after receiving their copy of Autumn Green News through the letterbox […]
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Dave’s written to Essex Highways about the potholes on Silver Street, Fountain Place, Paradise Road and Town Mead Road. These roads are in a terrible state with an uneven service, the result of years of piecemeal patching up, and have over a dozen substantial holes which can damage vehicles and have caused injuries to pedestrians and cyclists.
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