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Alison Marshall: Women’s Equality Party activist

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Everyone has a story – especially new political parties. In the recent elections in London, Wales and Scotland 350,000 people voted for the newly formed Women’s Equality Party, while in London 1 in 20 voted for a WEP mayor (May 2016). Highbury’s Alison Marshall, a founding member of the Women’s…
Pauline Tiffen: fair trade guru

Pauline Tiffen: fair trade guru

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Everyone on Islington Faces Blog has a story.  In 1985 Pauline Tiffen, working from a grungy office opposite the old Angel tube station, began to shake-up the way companies treated their suppliers. Fast forward to 2014 and meet the woman who helped shoppers get Fairtrade* products.  Interview by Nicola Baird “My claim to fame is that…