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Havering Council reverses decision to cancel Hanukkah candle lighting after controversy

The council has made a hasty u-turn

Evening Standard · Dec 1, 2023

Havering Council under fire after deciding not to light Hanukkah candles

The decision is branded 'miserable' by the head of the Antisemitism Policy Trust

Evening Standard · Dec 1, 2023

‘We are capitulating to terrorism’: Anger as Hanukkah celebration scrapped over vandalism fears

‘We cannot allow antisemitism to win in Britain’ Andrew Rosindell said after Havering Council’s decision

The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2023

‘Devastating’ Wennington wildfire probably started in a back garden, says report

A large grass fire in the village in Havering, east London, ripped through 17 houses during scorching temperatures in July last year

Evening Standard · Jul 13, 2023

20mph Islington and Hackney at top of ‘healthy streets’ table

The ‘car-dominated’ boroughs of Havering, Bexley and Hillingdon landed bottom of the list

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2023

Launders Lane: Soil analysis to determine source of underground fire ‘burning on and off for 20 years’ in east London

The leader of Havering council has said scientists will be conducting a soil analysis of an illegal dumping site that has been spewing out potentially toxic smoke over east London.

Evening Standard · May 17, 2023

OPINION - The Standard View: London is feeling the full force of this NHS crisis

London’s Accident & Emergency departments are in crisis. New figures reveal that February saw 22,000 people wait longer than 12 hours to be seen in the capital’s hospitals, representing more than one in 10 of those attending, according to the NHS. One London trust, Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals,…

Evening Standard · Apr 17, 2023

Pilot ‘lucky to be alive’ after being cut free from wreckage of aircraft crash in Upminster

A woman managed to walk away from the crash

Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2023

Revealed: Several fire-destroyed Wennington homes were uninsured

Havering Council’s chief executive said the authority ‘will continue to do all we can to help’

Evening Standard · Mar 8, 2023

East London residents fear dangerous toxins spewing from ‘decade-long’ landfill fires

People living close to the former landfill site in Rainham are demanding action to end the near-constant fires, reports Barney Davis

Evening Standard · Feb 17, 2023