New figures reveal impact of Covid-19 on drug treatments
Report by Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter Local people seeking support for opiate use more than doubled in a...
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Anger over Thames Water billing switch
Report by Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter Angry councillors this week took Thames Water to task over its move...
Councillors urge government to make misogyny a hate crime
Report by Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter Islington councillors have voted in favour of a motion calling on the...
Constructive criticism
Local filmmaker Graeme Weston has made a film about Katie Clare who, faced with breast cancer surgery for took...
Exercise – one of the few things we’re allowed to do outside
Dora Thornton talks to Clerkenwell personal trainer Vicky Neal Walk through Spa Fields, just off Exmouth Market, in the...
Distant comfort and joy
Whatever the virus brings, the St Luke’s Centre is still making Christmas plans Amid the uncertainty of 2020 one...
Fear on the buses
In the lockdown and beyond bus drivers want greater protection By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter. “People are saying...
Riding out the storm
The novelist Anthony Horowitz OBE tells the EC1 Echo about his life in Clerkenwell, what he did during lockdown...
Tea and sympathy
Among the openings is Be-oom on Exmouth Market While the coronavirus has led to businesses closing, there have also...
The tide’s out for Tech City
By Oliver Bennett Ten years ago, Old Street roundabout became the unlikely source of national optimism. Feted by then...