The nice people at Sam and Arthur are directing a commercial for First Direct Bank and need a few dogs. If you have at least 2 dogs, both you and the furry ones can make a bob or two, actually £100 to be exact for about 3 hours work this weekend. Oh and I forgot [...]
The cycle hire scheme is now in Hackney! Councillor Feryal Demirci got things rolling for the new Barclays Cycle Hire scheme, by taking one of the bikes for a spin around the streets of Hackney on today, Monday 9 August. Councillor Demirci, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, started her journey in Shoreditch High Street and finished [...]
When M. Night Shyamalan first broke through in 1999 with the ghostly thriller ‘The Sixth Sense’, his future could not have looked brighter. Here was a young writer and director who really knew how to tell an original story with a twist. Shyamalan gained a big following that stood by him with a sense of [...]
“When I was finally arrested in Hampshire, it wasn’t with sniffer dogs and screaming sirens. It was a quiet Sunday afternoon.” – Farah Damji, Try Me When a memoir begins with the author’s childhood abduction and ends with her prison sentence, it isn’t unreasonable to expect that the intervening pages be at least mildly diverting. [...]
Hackney’s biggest, boldest, proudest and loudest summer event is back this summer. From steel pan tunes to soca aerobics, there’s something for everyone to enjoy. Now in its third year, the event brings together hundreds of performers from the arts, carnival and community groups across the borough and beyond. Hackney One Carnival gives residents and [...]
The female cyclist involved in Thursdays collision has been named as 24 year old Arina Romanova. She was travelling south in Navarino Road and the taxi was travelling along Graham Road, when the collision happened. Ms Romanova of Amhurst Road,who is a native of Latvia, arrived in London in June and was on her way [...]
This is a messy one. The much anticipated Nigerian Carnival due to begin today, Saturday 7th and ending on Sunday, has been cancelled. The organizers of the two day event which cost £70,000 and billed as an extravaganza of all things Nigerian, including, music, fashion and food, was expecting up to 5,000 revellers. Unfortunately they [...]
Here’s the low down folks. The new Chatsworth Market in Clapton, is all set to begin in September with the aim of holding it every Sunday, but will start off as a monthly market. The project has been a labour of love by residents and traders on this rare jewel of a high street, where [...]
Yet another cyclist has been knocked down in Hackney. The woman who is thought to be in her 30′s, collided with a black cab along Graham road near Navarino Road just after 12 noon yesterday, Thursday 5 August and was taken to the London Royal Hospital. According to uncorroborated report, she had a cardiac arrest. [...]
