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Mae + Harvey Portrait of owner Natasha Sayliss Neighbourly lockdown photo essay©Jamie Sinclair
Mae + Harvey Portrait of owner Natasha Sayliss All photos ©Jamie Sinclair
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Remembering how people pulled together during lockdown (photoessay)

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 Siva Thangarajah 0 Comments Covid, Features

Local photographer Jamie Sinclair captured how residents, businesses and organisations came together during the early days of lockdown in 2020.

Loafing coffee crepe shop roman road
Local Local economy News Social care 

East End cafés forced to scale back services due to staff shortages

April 16, 2022March 25, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Covid, High street, News

How East London hospitality venues are adapting their businesses to survive the industry’s recruitment crisis. Venues in East London have

Getting their vaccine, Art Pavilion, Mile End. Photoessay by Rose Palmer.
Photography by Rose palmer
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Vaccine stories: Injecting hope at the Mile End Art Pavilion

April 10, 2021November 27, 2022 Evie Breese 0 Comments Covid, Features

Mile End Park’s stunning Art Pavilion has been turned into a vaccination centre to play its part in the fight

School teacher Ed Stubbs stands outside Morpeth School where he developed resources to teach pupils about the coronavirus vaccine
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How a Morpeth school teacher’s initiative to tackle kids’ vaccine fears went national

March 31, 2021November 27, 2022 Evie Breese 1 Comment Covid, Features

As thoughts turn to coronavirus vaccines for kids, Morpeth School teacher Ed Stubbs’ initiative to tackle pupils’ vaccine hesitancy has

The playground at Olga School, Bow, East London
Olga Primary School
Local Local economy News 

Local appeals to ensure enough laptops for local school children

February 27, 2021November 27, 2022 Tom McGhie 0 Comments Covid, News

Facing some of the greatest digital poverty in the country, our local schools, politicians and the council have taken action

Ifti Lafit in Victoria Park against the sunset that inspired his lockdown poem
Art and artists Culture Life and living Local Social care 

At least the weather’s good: a lockdown poem from Iftikhar Latif

January 12, 2021March 23, 2023 Tom McGhie 0 Comments Covid

Ifti Latif is a local poet, who wrote a poem inspired by lockdown last summer. As the winter months take hold and people look for some positivity in the current climate, he has chosen to share his work which he hopes will ‘be something nice to think about, especially as we enter January’.

boxes of vegetables at a supermarket
Local News Social care 

Businesses open during lockdown: Open, Delivery or Collection

January 10, 2021November 27, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 12 Comments Covid, News

It is lockdown round 3.0 Roman Roadies! Although many services deemed essential, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, are largely operating

A still from the Victoria Park Runners film, set in East London
Local News Social care 

How to stay fit and well during lockdown

January 6, 2021November 27, 2022 Francesca Lister-Fell 0 Comments Covid, Features

Our guide to the best local fitness, yoga and mindfulness classes during lockdown, including ways to get creative and stay busy with useful tips and courses.

Woman and man heart with hands by matt nelson
Local News Social care 

COVID-19: How to help

January 5, 2021November 27, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 2 Comments Covid, News

As the needs in our community sadly, continue to grow as the pandemic places more pressure on all levels of society, your appetite to help those in need has not abated. Here’s our COVID-19 Community Guide for lockdown #3.

Black & white portrait of coffee shop customer through a window
Local News Social care 

Through the window: Quarantacinque’s lockdown photo essay

October 2, 2020November 27, 2022 Grace Boyle 0 Comments Covid, Features

If you’ve been down to Roman Road’s café Quarantacinque recently, you may have noticed a photography display stuck humbly to

Victoria Park in the distance. Aerial shot of Victoria Park, photographs of Bow in lockdown by Matt Payne
Victoria Park with the City in the distance ©️ Matt Payne
Local News Social care Victoria Park 

Lockdown photo essay captures aerial photography of an empty Victoria Park

June 26, 2020April 18, 2023 Francesca Lister-Fell 0 Comments Covid, Features

‘The drone allows you to see areas from a very unusual perspective and it has the power to completely transform familiar places. I look for the geometry within infrastructure sometimes and the pathways in the park provided that.’

Socially distanced queueing outside Tesco Bow during lockdown
Socially distanced queueing outside Tesco © Rebecca Landon
Local News Social care 

Lockdown living: readers’ own photographs of life in the pandemic

June 5, 2020November 27, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 0 Comments Covid, Features

What makes this image unusual, and typical of Covid-19, is the singular plane spotted in the left hand of the photo. Detje says ‘they’re so rare now, compared to how many planes we would normally see’.

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