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covid 19

Loafing coffee crepe shop roman road

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

April 16, 2022April 14, 2022 Polly Nash 134 Views 5 min read

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

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Getting their vaccine, Art Pavilion, Mile End. Photoessay by Rose Palmer.
Photography by Rose palmer

Vaccine stories: Injecting hope at the Mile End Art Pavilion

April 10, 2021January 13, 2022 Evie Breese 755 Views 11 min read

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

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The playground at Olga School, Bow, East London
Olga Primary School

Local appeals to ensure enough laptops for local school children

February 27, 2021January 13, 2022 Tom McGhie 388 Views 4 min read

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

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Ifti Lafit in Victoria Park against the sunset that inspired his lockdown poem

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

January 12, 2021January 14, 2022 Tom McGhie 466 Views 1 min read

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’.

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boxes of vegetables at a supermarket

Businesses open during lockdown: Open, Delivery or Collection

January 10, 2021January 13, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 14107 Views 19 min read

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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A still from the Victoria Park Runners film, set in East London

How to stay fit and well during lockdown

January 6, 2021January 13, 2022 Francesca Lister-Fell 111272 Views 8 min read

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.

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Woman and man heart with hands by matt nelson

COVID-19: How to help

January 5, 2021January 13, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 7759 Views 6 min read

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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Black & white portrait of coffee shop customer through a window

Through the window: Quarantacinque’s lockdown photo essay

October 2, 2020January 13, 2022 Grace Boyle 2051 Views 3 min read

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

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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

Lockdown photo essay captures aerial photography of an empty Victoria Park

June 26, 2020January 13, 2022 Francesca Lister-Fell 5297 Views 3 min read

‘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.’

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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

How people pulled together during lockdown (photoessay)

June 13, 2020January 13, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 2943 Views 3 min read

Local photographer Jamie Sinclair captures how residents, businesses and organisations came together during the early days of lockdown.  Sinclair was

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Socially distanced queueing outside Tesco Bow during lockdown
Socially distanced queueing outside Tesco © Rebecca Landon

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

June 5, 2020January 13, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 3549 Views 3 min read

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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Roman Road high street during lockdown

Will Covid-19 be the death or rebirth of the high street?

May 18, 2020January 13, 2022 Siva Thangarajah 6151 Views 6 min read

If we can retain our appreciation of local businesses out of goodwill and loyalty, and a newfound appreciation of our high street as an important part of our community, then we can hold on to hope.

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