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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story. Whatever the weather there always seems to be a tennis coach setting up the perfect rally shots on the courts at Highbury Fields – and often it’s Viren Soma. Interview by Nicola Baird. Watching tennis pros on TV – Ferrer or Murray say – its tempting to… 
Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog.  Here’s just a little about the magic of the canal – a passion that brings Chris P to the London Canal Museum as a regular volunteer. Interview by Nicola Baird. “It’s only 200 years ago the canal was built,” said Chris on the…
Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog.  So what’s it like growing up in Islington these days? On ITV’s Girlfri3nds Charles Williams, the fourth generation in his family from Islington, was billed as the bad boy – but these days he’d rather be at the gym, the footie or…
Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog.  Suppose you knew that cataract surgery was one of the 10 best health interventions to reduce poverty, would you ditch your job to find a way to cure reversible blindness in India’s poorest states by the year 2020? Highbury’s Lucy Mathen, 60,…
Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog.  Here’s how Londoner David Goodman started his own tapas place not far from Caledonian Road, N7. Interview by Nicola Baird. David Goodman runs the Roman Tapas & Grill on a street corner close to Caledonian Road & Barnsbury Station that also boasts the Hemingford…
Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog. Alex Smith from Islington Local History Centre and Islington Museum helps keep many more local stories live and accessible – a hard task when you realise that there are more than 100,000 pieces of information stored on site at the Finsbury office. Interview…
Everyone has a story on the Islington Faces Blog. Jake Perkins is a partner at the eponymously named Hotblack Desiato – the estate agent on Upper Street that sci-fi writer Douglas Adams borrowed to name one of the rock stars in The Hitch hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Jake was born…
Everyone has a story, some of these stories are heard at cafes. The Finsbury Park end of Blackstock Road is crammed with north African style coffee shops packed with men, but there’s also Good For Food run by Helena Spurr which offers a very different Mediterranean dining experience that women,… 
