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Sara Mclaughlin: artist

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Everybody has a story. In her kitchen over mint tea, sweetened with honey from the bees living at the end of her garden, Sara Mclaughlin discusses the Islington places that inspire her art. Interview by Nicola Baird & photos by Kimi Gill taken before the Covid-19 lockdown “I’d always done…

Lucy Facer: Islington Clean Air Parents

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Everybody has a story. Have you seen the ‘I love clean air’ blue hearts from Islington Clean Air Parents which have been spreading around our streets during the Covid-19 lockdown? Find out more about this new campaigning group set up by Lucy Facer and friends. Interview with Nicola Baird Lucy…

John Henry Hammond: from soldier to pacifist

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Everyone has a story. David Hammond has shared his memories growing up at 212 Liverpool Road in the 1950s on Islington Faces. Now he’s collected his father John’s war memories. John Hammond (1913-1994) was born and bred Islington. He won medals for bravery but the experience of WW2 turned him into…