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Coffee and Fripes cafe and vintage store on Roman Road in Bow.
Coffee and Fripes offers customers coffee with a side of vintage browsing © Social Streets CIC
Fashion & beauty Local Shopping 

The shops you didn’t know you needed: the rise of The Roman’s concept store

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Victoria Miller 14 Views 0 Comments Features

A tequila chaser with your garms? Why the East End’s spin on the concept store could save the high street. 

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Arts Cultural heritage Local 

Artist Kay Kanté: Swapping law books for canvases

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022 Panayiota Demosthenous 81 Views 0 Comments Features

Kay Kanté’s ordinary scene paintings of the area are being shown at The Brady Art Gallery, and has led her

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Selection of bubble teas at BubbleUpp
Food & drink Restaurants & cafes 

Not your normal breakfast brew: Bubble tea takes over the Roman

April 29, 2022April 28, 2022 Polly Nash 78 Views 0 Comments Features

With 15 bubble tea shops in a two-mile radius of Roman Road, discover a world of pure imagination where flavour

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Tracey Emin sculpture, A Moment Without You, at Three Mills, part of The Line art walk
Photo © Angus Mill, courtesy of The Line
Local Places to visit Things to do 

The Line art walk: From Tracey Emin to Antony Gormley

April 28, 2022May 3, 2022 Anna Lamche 391 Views 0 Comments Features

The evolving art of The Line art walk creates one of East London’s most thought-provoking attractions.  Beginning in Queen Elizabeth

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John Biggs pictured with school child in Tower Hamlets
Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from Mayor John Biggs

April 26, 2022May 4, 2022 Polly Nash 56 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run up to the May elections, we interviewed Labour’s John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets The local elections

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Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from mayoral candidate Hugo Pierre

April 26, 2022May 9, 2022 Chris Spring 44 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run up to the May elections, we interviewed Hugo Pierre, Socialist candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor 2022 The

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Andrew Wood, an Independent mayoral candidate for Tower Hamlets.
Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from mayoral candidate Andrew Wood

April 26, 2022May 9, 2022 Chris Spring 41 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run up to the May elections, we interviewed Andrew Wood, Independent candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor 2022 The

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Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from mayoral candidate Elliott Weaver

April 26, 2022May 9, 2022 Chris Spring 51 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run up to the May elections we interviewed Elliott Weaver, Conservative candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor 2022 The

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Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from mayoral candidate Rabina Khan

April 26, 2022May 4, 2022 Chris Spring 44 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run up to the May elections, we interviewed Rabina Khan, Liberal Democrat Candidate for Tower Hamlets Mayor The

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Emma Tarbard, manager of The Florist Arms, Globe Road, Globe Town, Bethnal Green, East London.
Culture Food & drink Local Pubs, bars & clubs 

The Florist Arms landlady Emma Tarbard: choosing the pub life

April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 Polly Nash 1067 Views 0 Comments Features

‘It’s in my blood’: Third generation publican Emma Tarbard left university to continue the family trade of East End pub

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a group of people in a park holding up Labour signs, Tower Hamlets, East London
Photo from Tower Hamlets Labour
Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from Labour

April 21, 2022April 27, 2022 Victoria Miller 67 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run-up to the May elections, we interviewed Rachel Blake, Labour Councillor and candidate for Bow West. The local

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A group of people outside a building holding up Liberal Democrat leaflets in Tower Hamlets, East London.
Rabina Khan (centre) with Liberal Democrat candidates and campaigners. Photo courtesy of Liberal Democrats in Tower Hamlets.
Local Social activism Society 

May elections: hear from the Liberal Democrats

April 14, 2022April 27, 2022 Victoria Miller 76 Views 0 Comments Features

In the run up to the May elections, we interviewed Rabina Khan, Liberal Democrat Councillor and candidate for Shadwell and

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