Chigwell Row Community

The moment the phone was stolen. Please join our rapidly growing community facebook page  (click here) A thief has stolen a hair salon receptionists phone while engaging her in a very complicated distraction theft. In a very disturbing video, the suspect begins a conversation with the receptionist at Naked Lounge, Manor Road, then uses a paper he takes from his pocket to distract her, while he whisks her phone away from right in front of her.   Do you know this man? The speed of his movement leaves viewers astounded at how quickly he picks up the phone and in a blink of an eye apparently sticks it to his leg. This all happened in a moment of seconds and the man continues his distraction, while talking to the receptionist as her leaves the shop with her valuable phone on his person. The man can later be seen skipping along the street outside the shop, pleased with the outcome of his deception. The shocked receptionist only realises she has been duped after he has gone....

  Please join our rapidly growing community facebook page  (click here) Today (25th October) five volunteers completed the cutting back of hedges along Romford Road.  despite a dreary morning in which rainfall was pretty constant.  Fortunately, for participants, the weather remained warm and sunny from the start of the community-cut-back at 11.30, until 3pm when the work was completed. Essex County Council have been extremely helpful this time, providing us with litter-pickers and gloves and agreeing to collect our green waste from Daylop Drive on Monday. This is the last hedge-trimming exercise we will be doing till the new year - sometime in April.  For now, we hope the trim creates a safer and more pleasant walk for users. Wherever we have cut, attempts have been made to reach upwards to above 7ft, thus ensuring people with umbrellas can use the road safely without damaging them.   Pavement has now been reclaimed, meaning that mothers with pushchair...