[from gallery:space]
8 - 30 September
Tuesday - Sunday 12-6
Private view Friday 7 September 6-9pm
The Istanbul Project is a multi-cultural, cross-faith and inter-continental project, exploring the cultural, social and geographical landscapes of Istanbul through the eyes of Israeli photographers.
gallery:space at the McKenzie Pavilion Finsbury Park London N4 2NQ
Web site: www.galleryspace.org.uk
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[from SGRA mailing list]
The library will be closing for refurbishment, provisionally from Monday 10th to Saturday 29th of September, re-opening on 1 October.
To allow for the closure, your book/s are due for return or renewal by 8th October.
You can return them to [...]
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[from Hackney Gazette]
Blackstock Road crackdown on selling of stolen goods
hg.editorial@archant.co.uk
31 August 2007
A THRIVING black market for stolen goods in Finsbury Park is fuelling street crime across London.
Stolen laptops, mobile phones and satellite navigation systems are being sold in the cafés of Blackstock Road.
Police have said the stolen items are being traced to street robberies [...]
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[from Hackney Gazette]
Tenants’ fury at ‘land swap’ deal as estate undergoes £1 billion revamp
hg.editorial@archant.co.uk
31 August 2007
ANGRY tenants say they will be forced to suffer the misery of living on a building site after plans for the £1 billion redevelopment of their estate were altered radically.
The blueprint for regeneration of the massive Woodberry Down estate [...]
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The previously announced Istanbul Limelight Festival on 9 Sept is not taking place anymore.
[from Absolute Events]
Istanbul Limelight Festival 2007 Cancelled
25 August 2007, London: The following statement has been issued by music promoters Absolute Events (London) Ltd:
“It is with great regret that we announce the cancellation of our Istanbul Limelight Festival scheduled to take place at [...]
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[from SGRA mailing list]
Dear Members,
The Muswell Hill & District (that’s us!) Hort Soc is holding its Autumn Show this Saturday, 1st September at 3pm. Venue: St. Peter le Poer Church, Colney Hatch Lane, N10. Lovely flower & veg exhibits [...]
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Finsbury Park based baseball team London Metz and american football team London Blitz are in final games.
[from This is all local London]
London Mets down to ‘Final Four’
A baseball team based in Finsbury Park have the chance to become National Champions this weekend.
The London Mets’ men’s baseball team will play in the “Final Four” of [...]
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[from Islington Tribune]
Mobile phone thefts linked to Algeria
DOZENS of mobile phones are being stolen to order every week and ‘fenced’ through middlemen in Finsbury Park who mail them in bundles to north Africa.
A senior police officer said last night (Thursday) that Blackstock Road was one of London’s “hotspots” for fencing stolen mobiles to Algeria.
Chief Inspector [...]
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[from: National Secular Society]
Vicar admits middle-classes are fiddling church school places
A vicar in Finsbury Park, London, has criticised middle-class parents who “play the system” in order to get their children places in church schools when they aren’t really Christian.
The Reverend Stephen Coles of St Thomas the Apostle Church says that the mushrooming demand for places [...]
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If it’s not Brownswood Road, it’s Lordship Park, if not Lordship Park it’s Seven Sisters Road. In the end, the prostitution issue is not disappearing and not easy to solve if not worked out at the root of the problem: addiction to alcohol and drugs.
[from: Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal]
Fury over sex trade
nlnews@archant.co.uk
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