Waltham Forest will receive the title and £1.35m prize in 2019, followed by Brent in 2020. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: "London Borough of Culture is a game-changer for the capital." ...

The opening event Welcome to the Forest (11 to 13 January, 6pm to 9.30pm) is created in response to the themes of Waltham Forest's year celebrating Radicals, Makers and Fellowship.

Waltham Forest has been named as 2019 London Borough of Culture. This is the launch year for the programme, and the borough received a grant of £1.35m to make it happen.

But Waltham Forest Council has said it will pay for any of its residents running in London as a torchbearer. Council leader Chris Robbins said he hoped other London boroughs would follow suit.

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London council accused of ‘flushing money down toilet' with heated loo seats costing £636 each Waltham Forest Council installed 12 of the 'fancy' bidet seats for a total price of £7,632 at its ...

Waltham Forest London Borough Council. 2 May 2025. Review after woman took decomposing daughter out. The woman had been living with her daughter's body for a year as she "couldn't bear to part ...

Waltham Forest said that 259 out of 295 UK councils with responsibility for bin collections empty their residual waste bins on a fortnightly basis – or with longer gaps between pick-ups. Read More ...

The London Borough of Waltham Forest in North East London spans Chingford in the North, Walthamstow in the centre and Leytonstone in the South. Formed in 1965, the Borough is now home to an estimated ...

Primary schools in Waltham Forest have been trialling a weekly allergy free day for school lunches.. As part of the campaign, the parents of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse - who died after a severe ...

Waltham Forest's winning bid for 2019, targets an astronomical 85% of households to participate. One of the planned installations is titled Molecules in the Marshes, on — you guessed it ...

It’s less than a year since Sadiq Khan announced that Waltham Forest in north-east London had beaten off the competition to become the Mayor’s first London Borough of Culture (wfculture19.