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Londonist (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
You'd better start making alternative arrangements for tomorrow if you usually catch the bus; from 3am, drivers working out of Barking, Bow, Leyton, Romford, Upton Park and West Ham bus garages are walking out on a 24 hour strike to protest at the East London Bus Group's plans to impose a pay freeze. 58 routes across the East and City, including the Routemasters on route 15 and six night buses,...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Thousands of bus drivers in east London are expected to stage a 24-hour strike from Monday over a pay dispute.
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Transpontine (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Folk clubs are like dog fighting clubs , they're often little known about and in more places than you think. Hither Green , Eltham , Blackheath , Borough , Woolwich , the Union Tavern in Camberwell and Deptford have, or have had, regular folk sessions. Greenwich has the institution that is the tuesday night Greenwich Traditional Musicians Co-op and there is the gig-based One World Club who have gigs...
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Wanted truthful parliament in the UK (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
1210 Hrs GMt London Tuesday 03 November 2009 KHOODEELAAR! TOLD the 'East London Idiotiser' so ONE YEAR 3 months ago, about the CRASSrole playing T H Council assault on market traders…. It has taken the IDIOTISER that long just to get a bit of the facts involved. Today, Tuesday 3 November 2009, the IDIOTOSER has published an item on its web site saying that ‘red tape’ is ‘killing...
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Infinite Thinking Machine (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Johnson has worked in the education field for twenty five years, beginning her career teaching in East London schools working with difficult and disaffected teenagers. She began working with new technologies in 1993 and was one of the first teachers to pilot the use of the Internet in schools. She was part of the early developer group of schools for Oracle’s Think.com, contributing...
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Steve Hargadon (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Johnson has worked in the education field for twenty five years, beginning her career teaching in East London schools working with difficult and disaffected teenagers. She began working with new technologies in 1993 and was one of the first teachers to pilot the use of the Internet in schools. She was part of the early developer group of schools for Oracle’s Think.com, contributing...
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John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
This picture is not the best but it was very (repeat very) wet and a little windy last night at the Newham Council Free Firework display on Wanstead Flats . The weather was pretty appalling but it did not stop many people from all over East London turning out to watch and enjoy the fireworks. While I enjoyed the spectacle with everyone else the firework explosions and light flashes did make...
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Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | yesterday
Complaining about minor inconveniences has never been so fashionable for the thin-skinned amongst us . The sound of a couple making love was broadcast over a loudspeaker system at a station on Thursday. Dozens of commuters used to hearing announcements about leaves on the line listened to the unusual message during evening rush hour at West Ham, East London, on Thursday. Commuter Ian McFee,...
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Londonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
... touching and very poetic. That is what I want to reflect in my images. I like to shoot in East London, especially the East End, Shoreditch and more recently Hackney. I've started to go for photo walks in Deptford - the Laban Centre on Creekside by Herzog de Meuron is the one of my favourite buildings in the capital. For photography I like places where there is a lot of human interaction...
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Calling England (Free subscription) | yesterday
Worshippers at one of Britain’s biggest mosques [East London] reacted to the Fort Hood shooting yesterday by saying Muslims who serve in the Armed Forces are complicit in killing their “brothers and sisters” in Afghanistan. Mustapha, 26, from South London, said that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were wars against Muslims and he would not consider joining the Army nor encourage...
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My Pink Half Of The Drain Pipe (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
... of the council building and the homeless problem that is multiplying. So, I decided to head South. East London is no longer cheap either. When you've got girls called Cameila telling you that Bethnal Green is "super" then you know its over, over, over. I went to Mulletover last week and that was pure East London. I'd never seen so many mustaches and American Apparel, but...
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Transpontine (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's the annual free fireworks extravaganza on Blackheath tonight (Saturday 7 November) at 8pm. Guy Fawkes night in the area features in The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit , the popular children's novel first published in 1899. The author (and socialist) lived in various parts of South East London and Kent for most of her life, including a period at 16 Dartmouth Row, Blackheath...
