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This Is Stoke Newington (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Today’s groupthink award goes to Marcel Khan, MD of Nandos Stoke Newington. Lucky Marcel was unwittingly nominated by his assistant manager, Aaron for the following: - In the face of resident criticism and Hackney Council enquiries regarding early morning noise nuisance, Aaron informs us that Marcel has taken decisive action: He’s creating a space within the [...]
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ID in the News (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
As Labour’s soul-searching after the Glasgow East bye-election defeat continues, a number of Labour figures have been writing about possible policy changes for the party. Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, answers questions in The Independent: Q: What should Labour do to get people back on their side? (Alex Sweetland, via email) A: We [...]
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Catholic Action UK (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Action: please lobby your MP. Why are these mainland MPs so eager to change the law in Northern Ireland? From SPUC: There is a proposal in the UK parliament to extend Britain's liberal abortion régime to Northern Ireland. Ms Diane Abbott, Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, England, and colleagues from other parties have tabled an amendment to the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
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PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Public servants should not be allowed to discriminate on the grounds of their beliefs, Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott said today.
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Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
I found myself in the unusual position of nodding vigorously at Diane Abbott's assessment of the overall political situation in her MP's report at the Hackney North & Stoke Newington CLP meeting last night. Her basic message (from memory) was: we'd be nuts to change leader again so quickly we all need to stop panicking and that will be helped by MPs going on Recess and not all being in London stirring...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP's speech last night was hailed by the Tory who followed her, David Davies, as 'one of the finest speeches I have heard since being elected to the House of Commons'. Here is what she said
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This Is Stoke Newington (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
Seen at the junction of Stoke Newington Church Street and Green Lanes. WTF is this, Hackney Labour? Some contractor digs out a strip of pavement and goes to the trouble of painting the strip, but doesn’t finish the sign? This is supposed to be a bike lane, people; and you’re seriously telling us you asshats are going to leave [...]
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Journal of a record collecting geek (Free subscription) | 26/04/2008
The photos are here. Please comment! http://picasaweb.google.com/silentbob9484/WalkStokeNewingtonToLimehouse Tomorrow I shall be off to Love Music, Hate Racism in Victoria Park, if the weather holds! I shall also update about the Left List rally soon.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/04/2008
I live in Hackney on the borders of Islington, Stoke Newington and Dalston, and the area is a magnet for great food outlets. Most of the old eel, pie and mash shops have gone or are on their way out, but there's an endless choice of great Turkish cafés and food shops – and best of all, Vietnamese eateries. The Vietnamese have been there since they fled their country in 1975, and over the years they...
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The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
A quick update on the 'Stop the Strip Pub' campaign currently running in Stoke Newington, Hackney. It aims to block the application of local pub and former jazz bar 'Satchmo's' to become a sex entertainment establishment, with pole dancing on...
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Bryn's so called life (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Given all the recent killings etc, it is good to hear something different about Stokey and Hackney. However this evening the news was about Ibrahim Savant. Today he has been in court in Woolwich accused of having a role in the plot to blow up jets leaving Heathrow. Read all about it on the Telegraph website. Anyways various news sources say that he lives on Denver Road which I would probably say
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This Is Stoke Newington (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008
Click on the above to see some Stoke Newington Easter snow. It also is a reminder that the TS Stoke on Church Street used to be home to the Stoke Newington Sea Cadets. In one of their top-ten idiotic moves, the friend of children and “the people”, Jules & Co’s Hackney Labour pulled the rug out from [...]
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Bryn's so called life (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
This time not quite Stoke Newington but on the borders of it. I sometimes feel like I am living near a project in LA. I am just waiting for Puff Daddy to pop up alongside the ghost of Tupak Shakur (above). Two shootings confusingly close in venue and description. Basically I am not sure if the papers are really reporting the same incident. Either way the son of a local footballer ended up very
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stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
After the Home Secretary said she would be scared to walk around Hackney at night, local MP Diane Abbott took some fellow politicians for a stroll in the borough . All well and good, except that they went for their walkabout in Stoke Newington ! Not much to be scared of there, unless you nurse a fear of literary types beating you about with polysyllabic words, or live in terror of being knocked over...
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antiminke (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
BBC says, MPs test out Hackney after dark This shop counter looks remarkably familiar: I can't believe a bunch of posey politicians can go to the solidly middle class enclave that is Stoke Newington Church St and pretend they've braved the wilds of Hackney! The worst that could happen is that their latte accidentally has non-organic milk or they are hit in the ankles by a £1000 pram. They should have...
