Police say 19-year-old involved in altercation in north London before incident Detectives launched a murder inquiry today after a teenager was found fatally stabbed in a north London street. Passersby found the 19-year-old, who has not been named, collapsed in Stoke Newington late yesterday and called the emergency services. Paramedics arrived shortly before 11pm and he was pronounced dead at the...
DIANE ABBOTT Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a Labour politician, who has been the M.P. for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons. She has always been considered to the left of “New Labour”, and is a member [...]
Stoke Newington girl gone global, Leona Lewis, launching her album at the Hackney Empire is one thing. Caribbean pop superstar Rihanna doing it is another matter, but that's exactly what's happening on Monday night, when the robot lady of pop hits the rainy streets of our fair capital in promotion of her new saucy album 'Rated R'. The location of the gig is a secret for now, but we're told it holds...
Originally posted at Matt Sellwood For Hackney Every so often, people ask me what exactly being an electoral candidate consists of. The answer is, of course, that it changes pretty much every day, depending on what issue you are focusing on, what person you are talking to, and when in the electoral cycle you happen to be. I thought it might be interesting to give you a snapshot of my weekend though....as...
This guest post from Matt Sellwood, Green Parliamentary candidate for Hackney North and Stoke Newington and fellow blogger ( here and here ) is part of my short series in economics and deals with democracy in the economy. “In the factory there exists a dead mechanism, independent of the workers, which incorporates them like living cogs” - Marx Now, I'm not an orthodox Marxist – but...
Originally posted at Matt Sellwood For Hackney Hackney Green Party has pledged its full support for a universal postal service and is backing the postal workers in their dispute with Royal Mail management. Royal Mail management are trying to force through cuts to postal workers' earnings, often using threats and intimidation and wrecking their conditions of service. The Green Party supports the postal...
This is the first in an occasional series in which I interview (OK email) a Green Party parliamentary, European or council candidate. Matt Sellwood is the Green Party Parliamentary Candidate for Hackney North & Stoke Newington, and a council candidate for Clissold ward. 1. What do you think is the single most important issue in the 6 months until to the General Election for the Green Party? There...
Postal workers support group Meeting for all trade unionists in Hackney Wednesday 28 October From 7.00pm to 8.30pm Bodrum Café & Bar 61 Stoke Newington High Street, Stoke Newington, N16 8EL Please come along and find out what you can do to support your local postal workers. There will be speakers from the CWU and from other local trade unionists who are currently [...]
I'm deeply ashamed that the BBC’s Question Time has given a platform to the BNP's Nick Griffin, a fascist thug with serious form, a holocaust denier and a convicted racist masquerading as a democratic politician. Is that why we pay, under pain of imprisonment, a TV tax out of money which is already taxed? Tonight the BBC lost any moral justification for a licence fee. I have no problem with...
Preparation for the weekend's NFL game at Wembley by only lines If you can't afford a ticket to the NFL match this weekend there's still plenty to distract you. Wrap up warm and catch some cheap action off gridiron. Tonight: Art Saves Lives launches with an arty event at Stoke Newington Library tonight from 6pm. It's free but you might choose to buy a £10 raffle ticket to win a work of art....
Continuing our amble around London's independent bookshops Stoke Newington Bookshop is another of London's independent stalwarts, having been going strong for 20-something years. Its TARDIS-like interior - so much bigger than it looks from the outside, plus it's blue - contains a great children's section (as befits such a nappy valley-ish area), large travel and local history sections and a fantastic...
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a new opinion on www.dooyoo.co.uk about Hackney written by kjmccabe Having moved east to hackney after being priced out of what is not the super trendy Stoke Newington, I thought I was getting a rough deal. However, after only 3 months here I love it. There is always something to do and the transport links to the ...
Perhaps taking note of the stew Stoke Newington residents got into after Hackney Council wiped out the Royal Family Banksy , Sutton Council is inviting people to have their say on whether to save the mural on Beddington Farm Road. The Indie reports an initial swell of support over the weekend for the Ikea inspired stencil but there's still time to chip in and determine whether it will be preserved...
So far, 85% of those voting in Sutton, south-west London, say Banksy artwork should stay A London council is offering residents the opportunity to decide whether a Banksy mural should stay or go. The artwork, depicting a punk leafing through instructions beside a box labelled IEAK, appeared in Sutton, south-west London, around 10 days ago. A photograph on Banksy's website confirmed that the image...
Originally posted at Matt Sellwood For Hackney I've already written a little about the excellent work of Hackney's Green Party representatives - Jean Lambert in the European Parliament, and our two London Assembly Members at City Hall. I have been remiss, however, in not yet pointing to the excellent work being done by Hackney's existing Green Party borough councillor - Mischa Borris. Alone, she provides...
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