Roman Road to be left with no high street banks from September 2021
The Nationwide branch is set to close on 19 August, with the Barclays following suit on 15 September, leaving many
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Campaigns
Campaigns to save our heritage and environment, planning and development petitions, good causes and crowdfunding campaigns – read all about what people around Roman Road are passionate about.
Open Letter from Editor: Launch of new platform to help us live life locally
Roman Road LDN’s Editor-in-Chief announces the launch of a neighbourhood portal to help us build better lives as we come
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The Borrowers of Hackney Wick: welcome to the Library of Things
The Library of Things, the social enterprise making “borrowing better than buying” in order to create a more sustainable future,
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Cladding scandal: Trapped in a ‘matchbox’ in Bow East
Resident of the Mojo Development, Charlotte Meehan, tells her story of being trapped in a building riddled with fire safety
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Ken Greenway on how to ‘see nature, enjoy it and find comfort in it’
Manager of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park for 19 years, Ken Greenway, shares his secret on how to make space for
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Bethnal Green and Bow receive millions in emergency cultural funding
Tower Hamlets secured over £5.5 million of emergency funding for cultural organisations distributed between 51 recipients, all but eight of
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How a Morpeth school teacher’s initiative to tackle kids’ vaccine fears went national
As thoughts turn to coronavirus vaccines for kids, Morpeth School teacher Ed Stubbs’ initiative to tackle pupils’ vaccine hesitancy has
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Pubs, parks and pastry sellers: The Neighbourhood Plan to save what we love
It’s been a long five years for the Roman Road Bow Neighbourhood Forum, but they have finally released the draft
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Open Letter: Support the Fire Safety Bill on March 22nd
An open letter from Mojo residents urges people to sign a Fire Safety Bill petition to protect leaseholders from paying
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Rachel Blake, Cllr for Bow East, on Matchgirls and markets
Growing up in North London, Rachel Blake never anticipated that she would spend much of her adult life in Bow, as Councillor for Bow East and now Deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets.
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Local appeals to ensure enough laptops for local school children
Facing some of the greatest digital poverty in the country, our local schools, politicians and the council have taken action
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Sporting Bengal: the FC tackling racism in football
Sporting Bengal United F.C play their football in Mile End Stadium, after being established in 1996 to ‘challenge the underrepresentation of Asians in football’. Team captain Rokib Choudhury and their manager Imrul Gazi speak out about what needs to be done to tackle racism in the game.
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