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Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: Just because everyone's on holiday doesn't mean the 'choons have gone away too
Posted on 12:40pm Monday 3rd August 2009
IT'S the summer and no-one is here. Or so you'd think. Most music venues up and down the land are currently having some well-earned time off from all the loud drums and screaming bearded men with missing teeth.
Claire Hack »
Ups and downs in Leyton's parks
Posted on 3:46pm Saturday 1st August 2009
Oh, my poor neglected blog. It is rapidly ceasing to be a weekly rundown of the news and becoming more an ad-hoc update on life at the WFG. So I’m updating it on a Saturday.
Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: The future of music in Leytonstone looks a bit bleak
Posted on 11:28am Tuesday 28th July 2009
THE musical world of Leytonstone is having a bit of a bad time of it recently.
Janet Wright »
British aviation took off in Walthamstow – so why isn’t the council celebrating?
Posted on 9:43am Saturday 25th July 2009
One hundred years ago this month, an Edwardian gentleman wheeled a bizarre-looking contraption out of his workshop under a Walthamstow railway arch. It had a motorbike engine -- made down the road in Tottenham – plus bicycle wheels and three sets of fragile wings. A few curious bystanders watched as he clambered in and started the engine.
Claire Hack »
Streets of shame, again...
Posted on 5:20pm Wednesday 22nd July 2009
Although Kier workers are not going out on strike, this does not mean problems have abated. Apparently.
Claire Hack »
Time, tide and news wait for no one
Posted on 6:12pm Monday 20th July 2009
The reason the latest instalment of the WFG blogodyssey (this is the internet, everybody makes up words...) is that I simply have not had time.
Flash Bristow »
Confined by Swine Flu
Posted on 5:29pm Monday 20th July 2009
On Saturday evening I was at a party celebrating the Arts Trail – on Sunday morning I woke up with a raging sore throat, aching allO over. I was immediately concerned that I had swine flu.
Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: The Leytonstone Festival is where it's at this weekend
Posted on 3:39pm Tuesday 14th July 2009
THE Leytonstone Festival may have begun last week, but it's still in full swing this weekend with a host of superb artists all lined up waiting to bring pleasure to your ears.
Flash Bristow »
A cultural smorgasbord in Leytonstone...yours, for the next week!
Posted on 4:55pm Friday 10th July 2009
Last week, Leytonstone Arts Trail kicked off. This week it’s been joined by its older brother Leytonstone Festival as well, bringing all manner of things noisy, pretty, contemplative and fascinating to our patch of Waltham Forest.
Claire Hack »
Wednesday morning, 4am
Posted on 12:33pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
It is 4am. No one stirs save those who have not yet been to bed and the damp grey dawn has yet to gain purchase on the sky. It is cold. It is dark and silent as the grave.
Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: Everyone wiggle your jazz hands!
Posted on 4:29pm Monday 6th July 2009
SOME people would rather be punched repeatedly in the face than listen to jazz.
Claire Hack »
An announcement
Posted on 10:29am Friday 3rd July 2009
I am sitting in a cafe in Leyton, engaging in my latest reporter's surgery and testing out what it will be like to be a mobile journalist.
Claire Hack »
Panic in the streets of Waltham Forest
Posted on 5:07pm Wednesday 24th June 2009
This week, there seems to be a pervasive thrum of panic in the borough, for one reason or another.
Claire Hack »
Oh frabjous day!
Posted on 5:42pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
Callooh! Callay! Finally, some good news and I'm chortling in my joy.
Claire Hack »
Justice in action
Posted on 4:52pm Thursday 11th June 2009
The man convicted of killing Anthony Kearney - aka MC Boogaloo - has had his sentenced extended from five to eight years, following an appeal lodged by the victim's family.
Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: Summer, music and cider? Yes please daddy cool!
Posted on 12:21pm Wednesday 10th June 2009
CIDER, cider, cider. Yes, summer is coming and a new season in the music calendar is about to begin.
Caramel Quin »
I predict a photo op
Posted on 5:03pm Thursday 4th June 2009
So the diggers are on Walthamstow’s Arcade site this week, turning an unruly pile of rubble and buddleia into an altogether neater, flatter pile of rubble with no buddleia. Everyone will be so please. Except the butterflies.
Claire Hack »
One year on, the streets are still shameful
Posted on 5:14pm Wednesday 3rd June 2009
One year on, and the row over Kier Street Services has reared its ugly head again.
Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: It's terribly sad about the Loaded Dog
Posted on 4:47pm Monday 1st June 2009
THE big news this week in the world of local music is the looming threat of closure hanging over the Loaded Dog in Leytonstone.
Claire Hack »
Inside the belly of the beast
Posted on 5:19pm Wednesday 27th May 2009
I paid my first visit to the Old Bailey this week.
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