This piece originally appeared on The Duchess of Hackney’s Blog.. It was a daft idea to begin with. I don’t know which brain surgeon came up with the idea of having a floating carnival on Regents Canal and I was glad the authorities put an end to it. …
A scene resembling a Hollywood action movie, not often played out locally, startled people who came across anti-terrorist officers along Balls Pond Road, on the Islington/Hackney border yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. Twitter was alive with speculation after Guardian Journalist and soon to be their US corespondent, Paul Lewis, posted a photo…
Some very relieved Aden Grove residents in Newington Green, were all shook up yesterday evening, but grateful nobody was hurt after what is thought to be a gas explosion. Three fire engines, hoards of police cars and ambulances arrived soon after 6.20 pm and evacuated around 50 people from Aden…
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…
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…
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…
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