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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
As someone who has lived happily in the London borough of Newham since 1988 and has opposed the Olympics from the start, it isn't "women linking community happiness with extended opportunity to purchase", inane as that is, that rankles me ( Grace Dent , G2, 7 December). No, what rankles me is when ill-informed supporters of the Olympics sell it on the basis that Newham –...
John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
... London Region, 2nd Floor, 33-41 Dallington Street, London EC1V OBB. Also look at past posts on CWU/Newham Compass meeting here and here.
First Up! (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... which in the past year has been, besides P-Money, MC'ed over by Dizzee Rascal, JME, Skepta and Newham Generals just to name a few... The 12" EP also includes 'Beat Fighter' & 'Mega' and remixes from Martin Kemp and Bok Bok and will be released the 14th December, pre listen: Whilst the digital release will feature further remixes from Silencer, J Beatz and Rocks plus the additional...
From the Guardian: G2 | guardian.co (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... for us, eh? Nobody seems to want to acknowledge good news about "the Olympic effect" in Newham. Obviously, back in 2007, it was entertaining when Kirstie and Phil showed up to declare it the "third worst place to live in Britain", accompanied by a montage of stray staffies, discarded mattresses, yellow police incident signs and obese people staggering asthmatically to...
Pseudo-Occult Media (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... in so-called ‘vice activity’ has already been detected in the five Olympic boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Greenwich, to cater for demand from 25,000 construction workers. A special police squad has been set up to tackle the trafficking. Officers cite the example of a 16-year-old Albanian girl who thought she was coming to London for a romantic...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... of the Greenhill Aphasia Group took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke.
The TaxPayers' Alliance (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
... this year, Westminster's collected almost £9million less that last year. Islington, Lambeth, and Newham made up the top five. The two top councils claim such huge totals are inevitable, to protect permit-holding residents from losing their spaces. Councillor Danny Chalkley, Westminster's cabinet member for city management, said: "We understand that parking enforcement is not always popular,...
John's Labour blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
I’ve just started reading this new book by fellow Newham Labour Party supporter and former MEP Anita Pollack. I met up with Anita and other Party members at conference this year and got this flyer which I meant to post months ago. It is amazing Politics that Labour used to be the Party fanatically opposed to a European Parliament (or practically anything to do with Europe) while it was...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... of the Greenhill Aphasia Group took part in four outreach workshops at the Greenhill Centre in Newham. Aphasia is a difficulty speaking or understanding speech, reading or writing. It occurs following damage to the brain and is most common after a stroke. Participants worked with artist Viyki Turnbull to create still-life drawings and paintings. For this project – titled 'The Real and...
Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... a referendum for a directly elected mayor in Tower Hamlets. There already is one in neighbouring Newham, Labour’s Sir Robin Wales, but presumably Respect is hoping that it could win a mayoral contest in our scandal-torn borough. And who would be their candidate? Everyone is assuming it would be George Galloway. ‘Gorgeous’ George is standing down from Bethnal Green and Bow at the forthcoming...
One man and his Pond (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... some non birding dog walkers who had a seen large white bird fly down stream on Monday near Kings Newham so sounds as if it’s still around. A Kingfisher at Bretford and Kings Newham, 30 Wigeon near Kings Newham, 22 Golden Plover over Church lawford, Goosander female near Bretford and plenty of Redwing and Fieldfare in the area. Ended the visit at Brandon Marsh where 2...
Lite News :: Weird News - Strange, Funny, News of the... (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... in the vilest way.” A rise in vice activity has been detected in the five Olympic boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Greenwich to cater for demand from 25,000 construction workers. A special police squad has been set up to tackle vice barons cashing in on the Olympics. Officers are visiting ex-Eastern bloc countries to warn girls not to be tricked into coming...
Boomkat: Just arrived (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
BREAKAGE Hard (Caspa & The Others Mix) DIGITAL SOUNDBOY DUBSTEP / GRIME / FUNKY 12" Breakage gets a grimy tip for his latest Digital Soundboy excursion, accompanied by vox from Rodigan and Newham Generals and backed up with a swaggering remix from Caspa & The Others. We've not heard Breakage going like this before and it's a welcome change, adding a swipe of grimy strings to bass...
