The Latest Breaking News from Waltham Forest

Man jailed for helping fellow prisoner Daniel Khalife on his escape from HMP Wandsworth

Adeel Khan, from Waltham Forest, east London, has been jailed for four-and-a-half year for helping Daniel Khalife after his escape from HMP Wandsworth

Evening Standard · Sep 4

Green-run London councils to resist new trans guidance on single-sex spaces as Polanksi brands rules 'unworkable'

Lambeth has already signalled it will resist new guidance on single-sex spaces over risk it leaves 'trans people open to discrimination'

Evening Standard · Aug 4

Man found guilty of assisting Daniel Khalife after he escaped from HMP Wandsworth in 2023

Adeel Khan, 32, from Waltham Forest, helped supply Daniel Khalife with money following his high-profile escape from HMP Wandsworth in September 2023

Evening Standard · Jul 21

Man who smashed stained glass window breaking into historic London church is fined £11,000

Craig Knight, 50, of Waltham Forest, broke into St Anne's Church in Kew while drunk

Evening Standard · Mar 9

Pothole repairs row breaks out as Government names and shames 'worst' London boroughs

Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea and Waltham Forest each given a “red” rating by the Department for Transport

Evening Standard · Jan 11

Crackdown on rogue landlords renting out mouldy and unsafe homes to be expanded across London boroughs

A pilot scheme in Camden, to force landlords to improve properties in dismal conditions, is being rolled out to Barnet, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Waltham Forest, Havering, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets and Enfield

Evening Standard · Dec 21, 2025

Bin strikes in east London over Christmas period called off after new pay deal struck

GMB union members were due to begin rolling strikes in Waltham Forest next week ithat would have caused chaos

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2025

Robert Wilkinson obituary

Other lives: Local authority community worker who became a freelance expert in recording oral history

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2025

Met Police officer charged with four counts of rape appears in court

PC Robert Wing, 57, of Waltham Forest appeared in court charged with a spate of sexual offences

Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025

London borough that doubled 20mph zones shoots up league table of best places in capital to walk and cycle

Newham, City of London and Islington praised - but Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Bexley criticised

Evening Standard · Jul 7, 2025