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Daniel Binns »
SOUND ADVICE: Free gigs are most welcome in times of economic woe
Posted on 11:36am Tuesday 26th May 2009
AS the economy continues to crunch down on us all, and doom continues to rampage through our collective national conscience, it’s always nice to know there’s plenty of free gigs out there to enjoy.
Claire Hack »
Mo' money, mo' problems
Posted on 5:50pm Wednesday 20th May 2009
The MPs' expenses row rumbles on (and will most likely continue to do so for some time yet) and our Right Honorable Member has refused to apologise over his involvement.
Claire Hack »
Flash Bristow »
Clyde's legacy
Posted on 11:21am Thursday 7th May 2009
Clyde Loakes is shortly to stand down as Leader of the Council. Many comments on stories in this website wish him good riddance. So in a potentially controversial act, I'd like to consider Clyde's legacy.
Claire Hack »
Political figures and polyclinics
Posted on 4:20pm Wednesday 6th May 2009
I met Nick Clegg on Friday.
Claire Hack »
Return of the blog
Posted on 4:48pm Wednesday 29th April 2009
After a week's absence, the blog returns with another shameless (or shameful perhaps?) plug for my reporter's surgery.
Janet Wright »
Take a photo for freedom
Posted on 5:42pm Thursday 23rd April 2009
Photographers and supporters are meeting at Walthamstow Central bus station, opposite the tube, for a mass photoshoot at 4.30pm. on Saturday afternoon 25 April. Even if you haven’t got a camera, come and join in!
Janet Wright »
Don’t let the renaissance pass Walthamstow by!
Posted on 10:09pm Thursday 16th April 2009
This week is crucial in the battle to save Waltham Forest’s last cinema. A candlelit vigil is planned outside the Granada/EMD, in Hoe Street, E17, at 8pm on Saturday 18 April – all welcome to join in, and there will be entertainment afterwards.
Claire Hack »
All at sea again
Posted on 10:21am Thursday 16th April 2009
Now that we have all returned, stuffed full of Easter chocolate and emerging from our Bank Holiday torpor (I say that - I imagine not everyone was torpid. I just like the word) it's all hands on deck. With EAE on holiday and therefore not at the helm (I'm going for a nautical theme here. I like a good extended metaphor) FCR is acting captain, meaning we're a man short and scrambling just a little bit harder than usual.
Flash Bristow »
Farewell at last, Lincolns!
Posted on 12:08pm Thursday 9th April 2009
At last it’s over. The chaotic den opposite my house – Lincolns Public House – is finished. After four years of licence hearings, many hours of lost sleep, one near-fatal stabbing and who knows how many people urinating in the street, the local residents can finally look forward to a peaceful summer. However, this has been very hard-earned by the entire community.
Claire Hack »
Fire and brimstone
Posted on 3:57pm Wednesday 8th April 2009
Waltham Forest saw its very own towering inferno on Sunday night (April 5) as a fire swept through a Leyton industrial estate. Fortunately, there were no reported injuries but two warehouses were completely gutted, raining soot, ash and debris onto neighbouring properties and leaving nothing but hollow, blackened shells.
Claire Hack »
The protest that wasn't
Posted on 4:33pm Wednesday 1st April 2009
I love students. They can be relied upon for a great many things - not just getting drunk and sporting ill-advised haircuts and/or charity shop purchases, but also getting hot under the collar about political issues and waving placards that reflect this. And this is why I love them this week.
Janet Wright »
Two futures for Walthamstow
Posted on 2:42pm Friday 27th March 2009
Please get to the Sunday 29 March cinema meeting if you can! It starts at 4.30pm, St. Mary’s School Hall, Rectory Road, Walthamstow. This could be a real chance to rescue Walthamstow town centre.
Claire Hack »
Meeting and greeting
Posted on 5:00pm Wednesday 25th March 2009
It's my turn to go out and face our adoring public this week.
Claire Hack »
Sunshine and shadow
Posted on 5:27pm Wednesday 18th March 2009
It's spring at last and that means all sorts of things start springing up, as if from nowhere.
Claire Hack »
Bones of contention...
Posted on 4:55pm Wednesday 11th March 2009
The row over LGBT history celebrations in schools continues to do the rounds this week.
Flash Bristow »
If we’re going to tackle “Enviro-Crime”, let’s be positive about it!
Posted on 1:40pm Friday 6th March 2009
“We’re wiping out enviro-crime.” This is the bold statement declared on banners across Waltham Forest, accompanied by an anonymous hand wiping out graffiti. "Fly-tipping, littering, graffiti and dog fouling are ruining our borough". In other words, “This borough is being ruined”.
Janet Wright »
Drug centre plan dropped - for the moment
Posted on 1:05pm Friday 6th March 2009
Good news: the plan to open a drug-users' centre in St James Street Library has been dropped. Congratulations to all who protested, at the demo outside the closed library, by email or in this week's crowded community council meeting. But don't relax and think it's all over.
Claire Hack »
Doom! Dooooooooooooooom!
Posted on 3:39pm Wednesday 4th March 2009
Sometimes, I really think we must be living on the point of the apocalypse - economic collapse, fuel all but gone, death, violence, mayhem.
Claire Hack »
A season of privation begins
Posted on 4:31pm Wednesday 25th February 2009
Sadly, we've had no stories of tap dancing ex-KGB grandmothers or globe trotting former elbow disorder sufferers and neither, indeed, have we had any tales of life-saving retired circus monkeys.
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