I’ve worked with whores, pimps and bad ass dangerous criminals, but local  politics and eager beaver local journalists can be just as treacherous. Read more……

Now who would have thought that? A guy from Stokie and another fella, scaled BP’s central London’s Headquarters today, to hoist a flag depicting the BP logo covered in oil, in protest at the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Green Peace protester, Ben Stewart, 36 is described as a law graduate by [...]

Picked up on Twitter. Police were on hand outside a Hackney owned terraced house on Shakespeare Walk this morning, as the council attempted to evict defiant squatters from a townhouse. The police gave the squatters until 10 am to vacate the building. More to follow. UPDATE Word is they are out and the house is [...]

File under things you can’t make up. A Stoke Newington resident and avid tweeter, found out her flat was on fire just as she boarded a plane bound for Edinburgh last Friday. The tweeterer, may have also have had a premonition when she tweeted just hours before that with so many girls (friends) rushing to [...]