Businesses open during lockdown: Open, Delivery or Collection
It is lockdown round 3.0 Roman Roadies! Although many services deemed essential, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, are largely operating
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Author: Siva Thangarajah
A free 10-week mental wellbeing ‘toolkit’ to help you through lockdown
After nearly a year of living with Covid-19, we find ourselves yet again in another lockdown akin to last March. And this time, you might agree that we’re collectively worn down from a year of living with the pandemic and, unlike last time, there’s less sun to provide us with some much-needed Vitamin D.
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COVID-19: How to help
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.
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Messages from our spiritual leaders as they reflect on the last year
The light of faith has been so important this year, but that light has shown through in so many ways in our country; acts of kindness to strangers, reconnecting with neighbours, those on the frontline of fighting Covid-19.
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Eato: mocktails, grills and colourful burgers
Eato is very much a reflection of me,’ says the founder Ali Emran.
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A window into life on the canal [photoessay]
I wanted to capture intimate scenes of people’s autumn evenings on the boats.
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Swadhinata Trust’s Julie Begum: ‘If I’m not challenging the injustice I see, I’m part of the problem.’
‘If I’m not challenging the injustices that I see then I’m part of the problem,’ says Begum. ‘I am not a passive person and I don’t want to be a passive person.’
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Harry and the Chicks’ new single ‘Bow Church’ captures the beauty of Bow
‘I come from a typically working-class, East End family,’ she says. So when I was young, I remember going with my mum to the market on a Saturday. And I distinctly remember what a social atmosphere it was here. How people on the streets would talk to each other.’
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Iftikhar Latif on swapping his Oxford law degree for East End poetry slams
‘When I first started I was mainly writing about how sad I was. Now I’m also thinking there are also these other things going on, like how I’m British Bangladeshi and how I come from East London but went to a really posh university.’
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The Bakery Room: patisserie comes to Roman Road
Say hello to The Bakery Room. It is a new patisserie shop on the market stretch of Roman Road by the same team as Mile End’s The Pizza Room and The Coffee Room, who are now bringing their French and Italian-inspired bakes on the eastern of the high street.
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Roman Road’s newest food venture is a nod to the 80s and NYC
It’s the Biblical metaphor! It is all about neighbourhood dining, about this idea of everyone getting together and sharing delicious hearty food that isn’t too fancy, that you just want to tuck into.’
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Pre-fabs and pub life: the story of Ace Cars’ Phil Price
From the vibrant days of the exploding local pub culture to driving around the who’s-who of East End celebrities (‘Barbara was very nice and chatty, but she was very drunk,’ he says), it becomes clear that the story of Phil Price is the story of the East End itself.