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Your local independent bookshop is expanding its operations both on the street and online. From now on, Pages of Hackney will open seven days a week and if you click here you'll find that its website is in full and glorious working order. Upcoming events include an exhibition throughout April by local oil painter Elaine Breinlinger (special late night opening on 2nd) and, on 5th at April at noon, a reading of poems and stories for children aged three to ten by Chad Gething. The roughly 20 available spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. "Bring a cushion," it says here.    

They Love Stoke Newington

Stokey's three Labour Councillors have launched a blog.

The Little Old Gazette

Taken at the London Transport Museum. Those were the days.

Secondary Transfer: The Annual Agony

From the Hackney Post:

Dozens of children are being left without a secondary school place, despite the council spending hundreds of millions on improving secondary school opportunities in the borough. Figures obtained by the Hackney Post show that 150 children living in Hackney did not get a place at any state secondary school last year. Parents say secondary school entry remains a postcode lottery, with many still going to extremes to get their children into the best schools.

Some things don't change. Now read on.

Planting Hackney Wick

Oh look! A new local blog!

Alix Edwards Show: Be There Or Be Square

Iain Sinclair "fiction" filmed

Have you seen Shehani Fernando's brilliant video about Iain Sinclair for The Guardian? If not, step this way.