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Cruel council stop paying her carer, leaving her...

HACKNEY Council has pushed a severely disabled, incontinent woman to the brink of suicide.

The council told Jo Paton, 73 (pictured), she would have to pay for her own carer - pushing her to the brink.

Ms Paton now has to pay £98 a week for her carer.

The money comes from her disability allowance, leaving her with no free cash to see her friends and family.

She has lived in Hackney for 38 years and is now house-bound.

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By JESSICA MCKAY

HUNDREDS of Wallies de-scended on Victoria Park on Sunday to raise money for the Literacy Trust.

Everyone from nans to nip-pers took part, running, walking and dancing around a five or ten kilometre route.

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By MIRANDA LARBINICOLA SLAWSON

Thursday, 26 March, 2015Voice of the borough

‘My life was ruined’

Shesays:

Absolut is coming to Hackneyp13

The producerbehindLauraMarling’snew album p10

Diane Abbott MPwants your vote p8

BarkRun!

6ft beauty winsMiss Jamaica UK

CLAPTON cutie Rianna Sim-mons-Brown (pictured) has been crowned Miss Jamaica UK.

AND she’s also the Notting Hill carnival queen.

Rianna’s stayed true to her roots, she still likes a Caribbean takeaway from Clapton Road.

T H O U S A N D S o f pounds have been blown by the council on nuisance debt col-lectors who aren’t re-couping enough mon-ey to cover their costs.

In 2014, Hackney Homes, the housing branch of Hackney Coun-cil, paid “income manage-ment” service Just Hous-ing £44,721 to collect debt from social housing tenants.

But Just Housing col-lected only £41,849.

That means the council made an embarrassing loss of nearly £3,000.

The £41,849 collected by the company consti-tuted 0.97 per cent of the £4,314,351 owed that year.

Hackney Council, how-ever, has denied that the income management ser-

vice venture has been a failure.

A Hackney Homes spokesperson said: “[Just Housing’s] calls may re-sult in an agreement for futur

e payments. “These payments are

not reflected in the pay-ments received directly by

Just Housing.”In 2014, Shelter identi-

fied Hackney as the sixth worst place in the UK for repossessions.

In 2013-14, the rate of evictions from the bor-ough’s social housing rose sharply, with 262 families ousted from their homes – up 53 on the previous

COUNCIL BLOWS THOUSANDS ON DEBT AGENCY

Continued from front pageParticipants were pro-

vided with stripy shirts, bobble hats and plastic glasses on arrival.

Even dogs got a stripy makeover as they led their owners around the course.

Emily, 11, from Hack-ney Wick, said that she saw the race last year and wanted to take part this time because “it looked like fun”.

A WOMAN who tackled looters in the street with a walking stick is standing for parliament.

Pauline Pearce was dubbed the “Hackney Heroine” for standing up to rioters in 2012.

Mrs Pearce, who lost a Hackney by-election, will stand for the Lib Dems in Harpenden, Hertford-shire.

“I am so delighted to be returning to my home town,” she said.

HEROINE STANDS

WHAT A WALLY!

By JESSICA MCKAY

COMEDIAN Rus-sell Brand opened his new cafe today on the New Era es-tate.

It is aimed at “ad-dicts, nutters and revolutionaries”.

No doubt there will be a big turnout.

Abbotthounded by police in 90s

VICTIMS of domestic vi-olence are being forced to fork out for their own legal costs.

Meg Hillier challenged a Home Office minister on Monday to do something about the problem.

“I have come across women who are victims but who have had to fork out from their own pock-ets,” she said.

“Hard choices have had to be made,” Lynne Feath-erstone, a minister in the Home Office, replied.

LEGAL RAID

EIGHT in 10 residents polled can’t name the most powerful man in Hackney Council.

Jules Pipe has been mayor for nearly 13 years - but even with hints, locals didn’t have a clue.

An even greater number cannot name their local councillors.

“I don’t even know how I’d get in touch with them,” one resident said.

“Local politics doesn’t have much of an impact on me,” John, a former charity worker said.

Chris, a retiree from Homerton, did know the mayor’s name.

He said: “If I ever see Mayor Pipe, I’ll wring his fucking neck!”

The Labour mayor was awarded a CBE in 2008 in recognition of his work in local government.

Having a night-mayor

By MIRANDA LARBIAGNES CHAMBRE

Jules the hell are you?

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THE Met Police kept tabs on Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Di-ane Abbott in the 1990s, the BBC has revealed.

Police kept intelligence files on her and other left-wing politicians, accord-ing to ex-Special Branch officer Peter Francis. Be-tween 1993 and 1997 Mr Francis was deployed to spy on anti-racist groups as part of the now-dis-

banded Special Demon-stration Squad (SDS).

In 2013, the whistle-blower cop claimed that the SDS spied on Stephen Lawrence’s family in order to launch a smear cam-paign against the mur-dered teenager.

Abbott spoke in Parlia-ment in 1993 about the Lawrence case exposing

institutional racism within the police.

She has been an out-spoken critic of the Met over issues such as stop and search for ‘poisoning’ relations between young people and the police.

She is widely seen as being on the left of the La-bour Party, and has often opposed leaders.

Policy Exchange

Potty roadsOVER 10,000 potholes have been reported to the council in the past two years.

Almost twice as many defects were reported in 2014 as in 2013.

Over 200 drivers and cyclists were injured in 2014, with the council forking out £20,000 in compensation.

There were 6,273 de-fects reported last year, up from 3,970 in 2013.

“I estimate we see about one person a month whose bike has been badly damaged by a pothole,” Matthew Hilton, owner of De Beauvoir cycling shop Micycle, said.

“In a strange way, we like it – as it’s really good for the business,” he add-ed.

By AARON PAYNEFIONA PARKER

The council has splashed out £44k on a debt agency

3Hackney Post, Thursday, 26 March, 2015@hackneypost

FIREFIGHTER CLIMBS UP THE POLE

Shopkeepers share love in thyme of crisis

DISTRAUGHT Sam Jacob was overjoyed when his beloved

rosemary plant was re-placed.

Mr Jacob, 31, was of-fering £300 for the return

of the plant after cheeky thieves snaffled it from out-

side his shop.But Paul Holt, N1 Garden

centre manager, was on hand to present a new one.

“It’s so nice of him to do this. It’s great to see the community coming together,” Mr Jacob, who owns Micycle bike shop on Southgate Road, said.

“I was getting my puncture mended and it just came up in conversation,” said Mr Holt. “I told them I’d happily give them a new Rosemary plant.”

“I haven’t heard of Rose-mary thieves before but topi-ary thieves appear from time to time,” he said.

A new rosemary plant would only have cost £30, but the massive reward at least at-tracted local attention.

“But it’s London,” Mr Holt said.

“You always get a few unsa-voury characters. If they see something that’s worth a few bob, they are happy to help themselves.”

By MATTHEW GILLEYNICOLA SLAWSON

Mint... Shopkeeper Sam with good samaritan Paul, right

Lindsay’s all washed

up

SHE’S the party girl actress

who is known the world

over.But visitors to the Red

Route Café don’t even

RECOGNISE wild child

Lindsay Lohan.One colleague said: “We’ve

had a fair few fans outside.

“But usually people don’t

recognise her.”Lindsay’s back for more

community service at the

Lower Clapton eatery this

week.She needs to do 240 hours

after a reckless driving con-

viction in California.

Lindsay has designed

menus, but spent most of

her time washing up in the

kitchen.But then, she does scrub

up well.

A HACKNEY firefighter is up for promotion at Shoreditch Fire station - and she says it’s IN SPITE of being a wom-an.

Ciara Breen, 30, says she gets a hard time be-cause bosses give wom-en an easy ride.

At times her work has been “a daily battle”.

Miss Breen, from Hackney Wick, has been a firefighter since 2010.

She said: “There is a feeling that they have dumbed down the fit-ness test to let women in.

“All it does is add to the suspicion and the

mistrust and so you never get anything on merit.”

Her current boy-friend is not pleased with her choice of profession: “He works in insurance, which couldn’t be more dif-ferent.

“He’s all about calcu-lating risk. He thinks I’m going to die.”

By NICOLASLAWSON

Ciara Breen

Going places... Ciara is heading up the career ladder at Shoreditch

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THEY HELP THE COMMUNITY EVERY DAY

THE Urswick School held a memorial service on Tuesday to remember Shereka Marsh,

She was fatally shot by her boyfriend at his home last year.

Last Sunday was the one-year anniversary of the tragic death of Shereka, who was only 15 when she died.

Friends and family gathered to honour her.

Richard Brown, headmaster of the school, said: “Shereka was one of our shining stars. She was a good all-rounder, and a valued member of the school.”

Shereka has been awarded sev-eral posthumous GCSEs, which are due to be presented to her mum this week.

Just last week, Shereka’s killer

had his sentence reduced. He will now probably only serve four-and-a-half years before being released.

Mr Brown said: “Surely sentenc-es have to have an element of de-terrent to them.

“Does that reduced sentence have any deterrent effect at all on teenagers who are in possession of a lethal weapon?”

According to the Metropolitan Police, gun crime in Hackney in-creased by 24 per cent between 2014 and 2015.

Mr Brown said more remains to be done to tackle the issue.

Service honours tragic Shereka Marsh

EVERYONE knows some-one who works hard to make the world a better place and to change lives.

There are many of these people living in Hackney.

They contribute untold amounts to the community, either through their work or by volunteering.

The Hackney Post wanted to recognise these individu-als and reward them for their

hard work by demonstrating their achievements for all to see.

Conductors, councillors and shopkeepers - they’re all here.

Read about the pillars of Hackney’s community who work with children and the vulnerable.

They provide essential services which might other-wise not be provided.

Read about the wonderful work these Hackney heroes are performing.

By ALICE JOHNSTONNICOLA SLAWSON

GAYHURST School children have been fighting air pollution with a catchy rap.

The pupils lent their lyrical tal-ent to a track produced by Hack-ney band Navan.

The song is part of the I Like Clean Air campaign to encourage London mayor Boris Johnson to take a tougher stance on pollution.

Hackney has the worst lung cancer rates in London, with 74 deaths per 100,000 people.

Organisers wrote: “Big thank you to Navan and Gayhurst School Kids!

“We want every child in Lon-don singing this song to remind the mayor that we want Clean Air.”

Pupils rap for clean air

RUTH Whitehead is the conductor of a choir and orchestra, run by the non profit organisation Dis-senters.

“We provide a glorious mix of music for a glori-ous mix of youngsters,” she said. “Many schools are starved of musical re-sources and children don’t have access to a choir. We want to change that.”

ANDREW Coombs’s mission in life is to show as many Hack-ney kids as possible what real theatre is like.

He’s the producer of Hackney Chil-dren’s Theatre, whose mission is “to bring kids affordable and

accessible shows and invite everyone to see them”.

The company is run entirely by a team of dedicated volunteers at St John’s Church in Clapton and puts on a new show for children each month, often

based on topical is-sues like poverty.

“I love to give the community the chance to go to the theatre - some peo-ple have never been before,” Andrew said.

“There’s a lot of love that goes into these shows.”

DON’T KEEP NH-STRESSINGA NEW scheme aims to stop hy-pochondriacs from visiting A&E when they don’t need to.

Staff have been stationed to direct people to pharmacies, GP surgeries or other national health services.

It comes after the trust report-ed mounting waiting times in their emergency department.

The navigators will also give the public guidance on how to register with GPs and the details of their nearest practice.

Heroes, Thursday, 26 March, 2015 hackneypost.co.uk

By KATIE STRICK

I Like clean air

Ruth Whitehead

Andrew Coombs

Nicola Slawson

Urswick School

R Kelly

THEY HELP THE COMMUNITY EVERY DAY

‘It’s time for these people to be celebrated’

MEET HACKNEY’SUNSUNGHEROES

ANTHONY Rookwood works for St Mungo’s to help people with depression to motivate themselves.

He understands what these people are going through be-cause he went to prison when he was young and spent four years on the street.

He said: “I have been in the position to give back, taking all the negativity that i was given and using it in a positive way.

“You want to tell people to do this and do that but you can only do so much, you can only open the door or show them where the door is to walk through.”

HAMDY’S News is a Stoke Newington stal-wart - it’s been on the high street for 35 years.Known as the ‘cam-paigning newsagent’, Hamdy Shahein uses his shop window to kick start local cam-paigns such as Justice for Joe. Joe Paraskeva is a

young man with bipo-lar disorder who was imprisoned indefinite-ly for setting fire to a door in a psychiatric ward.Thanks to Hamdy’s help, Joe was released. “He’s now a chef and has his own place like any normal person,” Hamdy said yesterday.

- Amy Gray, Conservative candidate for Hackney

South

Hackney Post, Thursday, 26 March, 2015@hackneypost 5

IT’S thanks to Ian Rothbone that two of East London’s most popular markets - Broadway and Chat-sworth road - are back on the map.

Now the Lea Bridge councillor is on a mission to reinstate a third, Well Street mar-ket. Born and bred in

the borough, he re-members visiting it with his nan when he was a child. “It was so lively,” he said.

So why are markets important to him? “Markets make for a much more diverse, lo-cal economy than high street chain stores.Small is beautiful.”

Anthony Rookwood Ian Rothbone

Amy Gray

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Council abandons pensioner, 73

HACKNEY is home to the UK’s fattest child, shocking new data has revealed.

An 11 year-old from the borough has earned the title of heaviest child in Britain - weighing a whopping 22st 10lbs.

The girl, whose identity is unknown, was among five other British children who tipped the scales at 20 stone or more in 2013-14.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the average adult man weighs only

13 stone: nine stone less than Britain’s fat-test child.

The revelation comes as another blow to Hackney, which was revealed to be the worst place for child-hood obesity in the UK last year.

15 per cent of Hack-ney’s kids are obese.

Martin Caraher, professor of food and health policy at City University, believes the large number of takeaways in the area could be responsible for the borough’s hefty children.

“For people on low incomes in Hackney,

there is more choice in terms of fast-food than of healthy food. You walk outside and all you see is fast-food shops.

Hackney Council are well aware of the weighty issue facing the borough’s chil-dren.

A spokeswoman said: “Reducing child-hood obesity is one of the council’s top health priorities.

“Too many children are suffering from be-ing obese in Hackney and we need action at a national and individ-ual level to bring these rates down.”

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She said: “I’ve been left in a financial downfall.

“I got hold of my MP, Meg Hillier, and spoke to her about it. But nothing’s changed.”

Ms Paton, who has sur-vived breast cancer, has also suffered with depression in the past.

“It has definitely pushed me backwards. I was coping before but now my suicidal thoughts are back.

“My life has been ruined.”Fiona Brickwood, a psy-

chotherapist and Age UK

volunteer, said: “To make cuts to the most vulnerable people is monstrous - the council isn’t being civilised.”

Andrew Kaye, from char-ity Independent Age, said cases like Ms Paton’s are not uncommon: “Cuts to elderly care are happening all over the country.

“Usually, social care con-stitutes around a third of a council’s budget, so when cuts need to be made, you know it will be elderly people who are hit the hardest.”

Hackney Council did not respond to requests for com-ment.

SHAME OF 22ST CHILD INHACKNEY

Pop-upsslammed

A MOTOR repairs boss forced to abandon his twenty-year-old business to make way for a craft brewery has slammed Hackney’s “arty types,” as he is.

Michael Vallance, 57, set up MV Motor Repairs in Hackney Wick in 1992, but his canal-side premises are soon to be taken over by bar and pizzeria Crate Brewery.

CHUCKED OUT

A FAMILY has been evicted from their three bedroom house after it was revealed that the social housing tenant who was sup-posed to be living there was living somewhere else.

Following an anon-ymous tip-off to Hack-ney Council’s fraud investigation team Amanda Murray, 51 and her family were found to be living in the property of her mother, Margaret Nel-son, 71, on Forston Street, Shoreditch.

NEWS, Thursday, 26 March, 2015 hackneypost.co.uk

If you didn’t believe we had an obesity crisis...

By JESSICA MCKAY

Girl is fattest in the UK

And this kidonly weighs HALF that

FRANKIE the Chihua-hua was reunited with his owners on Saturday.

He was snatched from a van during a Dogs’ Trust event set up to mi-crochip dogs.

The Dogs’ Trust said: “We are pleased to an-nounce Frankie is back where he belongs after a someone spotted him on a building site and recog-nised him.

“He quickly took Frankie into a local po-lice station – and we got the amazing call to say they had our boy!”

Chihuahua found

17 STONE

Rob Shaw

12 STONE

Susan Boyle Baby elephant

14 STONE 20 STONE

2 washingmachines

ILS Pass

PA

Restructure Girl

Jan Anderson

PA

Jacky Donaghy

The elderly housebound and lonely (File image)

OUR LOSTHERITAGEAS A CHURCH IS TURNED INTO FLATS, LOCALS MOURN...

Fifty portraits of poverty

PORTRAITS of 50 disadvantaged kids and young carers from Tower Hamlets have gone on show in Shoreditch.

The project, called Fifty Children Fifty Artists, was organised by Miracles, a charity which supports fam-ilies living in poverty in the borough.

The charity is work-ing to ensure children find a route out of poverty.

Sitters were chosen through an art compe-tition held at various schools. They also include children who have been directly helped by the charity.

Moped criminalsrob mumsof mobilesTHIEVES on bikes and mopeds are nicking phones at a rate of five a week.

Since January, approximately 60 moped robberies have taken place in the borough.

Stoke Newington is one of the hotspots with residents making multiple complaints.

On local parenting Facebook group Stokey Parents, one anonymous mother said: “Our wonderful nanny was mugged on Collins Road this morning.

“It was a man on a bike who grabbed the phone as she was using it.

“The worst part is that he also tried to grab her bag that was attached to our buggy and if she hadn’t held on so tight, our son could have been pulled over in his buggy and possibly hurt.”

Sally Ward, of Clissold Park Users Group told the Hackney Post: “I was on Stoke Newington Church Street just checking my phone when I heard a moped coming towards me on the footpath.

“They tried to snatch my phone but I held on. It really shook me up.”

Hackney Post, Thursday, 26 March, 2015@hackneypost 7

A PASTOR wants to trade in his church for a huge sev-en-storey building.

Campaigners warn it will “totally dominate the area”.

Nick Perry, a planning cam-paigner, said the proposed rede-velopment of Homerton Baptist Church, Barnabas Road, would

“loom large over the immediate residents, who have good reason to be concerned”.

The new construct will boast six floors of flats, a café and a confer-ence room.

Pastor Steven Richard’s son Ste-phen said the development was “providing for the community” by making new facilities available.

But opposition to the plans is

likely, as they do not include any affordable housing.

Mr Richards said building the new flats would “reduce pressure on social housing.”

The congregation will need to relocate while the church is being rebuilt and will pray in the basement room, also used for con-ferences, from then on.

By AARON PAYNE

By MIRANDA LARBI

Clockwise from top left: John Wragg, “Maryam”; Jessica Albarn, “Elias”; Carla Borel, Abdi; Carole Peace, “Darcis”

By NICOLA SLAWSON

Miracles

Sell out... Pastor Steven Richardsis fronting the deal

GLANCE at the Facebook page of NANA’s cafe and you’ll feel a rush of warmth in your belly.

Pictures show bumbling knitting nanas and piles of homely food: a place you might expect free hugs after your bovril.

So when NANA’s an-nounced they were being “kicked out” this week by the Clapton Improve-ment Society (CIS), the organisation that prompted their existence, there was outrage.

After hearing that the old biddies faced six months with water pouring through the ceiling, causing an elec-trical fire, Facebook users dubbed it “appalling” and “terrible behaviour,” with calls to “go to the police.”

But when the Hackney

Post tried to contact owner Emma Harris and hear their harrowing story in more detail, we were greeted with silence. Our messages and

phone calls were unan-swered. Surely we thought, those helpless nanas deserved some publicity? Although Ms Harris said in a Facebook comment, “I’m so angry at the moment, all I can do is lie in bed and drink wine,” her silence seemed strange.

We contacted John Al-denton, head of the CIS who claimed NANA’s had been abandoned since Christmas Eve.

“There were burn marks on the walls and mouldy food in fridges,”

he said. “Clearly things had been going badly for a

while. Above all, most of the ‘nanas’ were young.”

So, was NANA’s a scam? With the cafe due to open next week under new ownership, the mystery of NANA’s may never be solved...

Council Cruelty: Part 1

THE Council is bullying the borough’s poorest homes with burly bailiffs.

And the debt they’re collecting doesn’t even cover the cost of the collectors.

Rather than bashing down doors, council staff should be trying to ad-dress deep-seated problems.

Welfare cuts and housing shortag-es - Our local poor are on the front line.

The Council is spending thousands on kicking a dog when it’s down.Let’s put a stop to it.

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THE Coalition’s cuts to legal aid are deeply troubling.

Firstly, accessible justice for every citizen is a key foundation of our welfare state. The removal of this remedy damages progress towards a fairer society.

Secondly, the savings to the public purse, made by cutting legal aid, are being offset by increased costs elsewhere.

In carving up the provi-sion of legal aid, the Gov-ernment has made an ex-pensive ideological mistake. The progress of social justice has stopped at a greater cost to the taxpayer.

In Hackney I have experi-enced first-hand the effects of legal aid cuts on those who need it most.

Sadly in many cases, the heaviest impact has fallen on victims of domestic abuse.

In a visit to a women’s shelter run by the charity Hestia, I saw the bravery of women who have managed to escape the terrors of domestic violence. Through the help and support of the charity they are beginning to rebuild their lives.

Many others are not so fortunate. In London alone more than twenty wom-en a day are turned away from refuges due to lack of resources. Across the UK two women a week are murdered by their current

or former partner.In 2012 the Legal Aid

Act took most private law, children, and family cases out of the scope of legal aid. This dealt a hammer blow to the futures of many women hoping to break free of lives blighted by domestic violence.

The introduction of bar-riers to getting legal aid, like

higher costs and arbitrary criteria for evidence, has led to a worrying number of women forced to represent themselves.

Abuse victims are be-ginning either to give up their right to justice or face the prospect of being cross examined in court by their tormentors.

What makes the situation worse is that the taxpayer must pay higher costs, through social care and mis-managed litigation costs.

When an individual is not provided with adequate support mechanisms early on, even simple problems can spiral out of control.

Issues of homelessness, physical or mental health issues can then burden the social care and criminal justice systems.

We must refocus the debate back onto the impor-tance of legal aid provision as an essential part of social justice.

The stark consequences of the cuts are becoming plain to see. We must act now lest we leave those most vul-nerable to bear the heaviest burden.

‘TWO WOMEN A WEEK ARE MURDERED

BY THEIR PARTNER’

IT’S SHOCKING that we can’t look after the most vulnerable people in our society.

Disabled pensioner Jo Paton has had far more than her fair share of misfortunes.

She became wheelchair-bound and incontinent after an accident in surgery when she was a nurse, she’s survived breast cancer and over-come depression.

She’s lived in Hackney for years and she’s been through the mill.

After a life of contributing to socie-ty, she’s been left on the scrapheap.

We say to Hackney Council: she’s done her bit for our community.

Now you do yours.

LEYTON Orient’s loss to Craw-ley Town leaves them languish-ing.

And it’s because of incompetence at every level of management.

It’s no surprise we can’t commu-nicate up front when the manager doesn’t speak English.

And now the owner’s meddling too.The manager might not give a toss

about going down, but we do.So let’s get behind our boys

and tell them that we care.

OPINION Thursday, 26 March, 2015 hackneypost.co.uk

HACKNEY POST

OPINIONDomestic abuse victims bear brunt of legal aid cuts

Diane Abbott MP pitches for your vote

What’s really going on at NANA’s?By REBECCA SENTANCE

NANA’s... as innocent as they seem?

NANA’s

Council Cruelty: Part 2

Get behind our O’s

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THE word “placenta” translates as “flat cake” in Latin, and today thousands of mums, including Kim Kar-dashian and Gwyneth Paltrow are having their afterbirth and eating it.

This trend of mum-my madness made headlines last week when Swindon Council launched a hygiene investigation into a pla-centa smoothie maker.

And now this bloody beverage has reached Hackney.

Cath Reeve-Jones, a 42 year-old Hackney midwife has spent the last fifteen years blending the bloody organs with berries and bananas.

The Banbury Road resident is a member of the Independent Placenta Encapsulation Network (IPEN).

“We’ve had the food standards agency come after us, but I think it’s probably made us safer.

“It’s not like I’d ever blend a placenta that has been sat on the window-sill for 24 hours.”

The midwife advises women on placenta smoothie making, removing pieces of the afterbirth herself before placing them in bags destined for home blenders.

Placentas, according to Cath, are “meaty like liver, but more friable than that”.

They smell “irony and bloody” but apparently

“different” to menstrual blood.

Her interest in the business was sparked when her own midwife recommended the bi-zarre beverage. “I tended to bleed at my births – so the first midwife I had suggested a smoothie. I’d had a home birth and I’d realised that these mid-wives knew what they were talking about.”

Smoothie advocates such as Cath say drink-ing your placenta can improve all manner of health problems, from speeding up lactation in breastfeeding mums, to lessening symptoms of postnatal depression.

So how is the placenta smoothie made?

Placentas are deliv-ered, showed to the mother and checked they are safe to eat following a midwife’s inspection.

Two “thumb size”

pieces of flesh are then cut from the organ and given to the new mum with instructions to blend.

So what’s the perfect recipe for this distaste-ful ingredient? Cath’s advice – stick to the red fruits, “to disguise the

colour and flavour”, she explains.

However, while most women opt for the liquidized option, some prefer to be a little more inventive in the kitchen.

“IPEN don’t do it, but a friend of mine cooked it into a shepherds pie – she ate the whole placenta.”

So where does Cath think the future lies for this bloody beverage?

“Smoothies on the NHS. It should be offered to everyone as a kind of try it type of thing.”

Clearly for Cath, the future is bright for...placentas.

OFFAL-LY NICE...

WOULDYOU EAT

The real deal: ablended placenta

GET YOUR PLACENTA FIX

- Blitz in the coffee grinder and make the powder into easy to digest capsules.-Make into a concentrate and add to water - think Ribena Plus!-Or add in place of meat and cook into a tastyspag bol for the whole family.

Placenta smoothie3” piece of raw placenta1 organic banana1 punnet of organic berriesSmall handful of goji berries

PLACENTA?

@hackneypost

Gwyneth Paltrow is a fan, but is it a fad or a long-term trend?

Hackney Post, Thursday, 26 March, 2015

BY FIONAPARKER

MARE Street is a curious place. Unknown to most who live there, it’s the home of The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curios-ities, Fine Art and Natural History.

On entering, I’ve barely reached the bottom of the spiral staircase before a boa constrictor is thrown over my shoulders. I’m told his name is Sam.

Zoologist Tim Maynard has brought along his army of exotic rep-tiles, amphibians and bugs for a “weekend mini break”. I’m introduced to Lola the bearded dragon, Gismo the chameleon and Tess the tarantula.

Wary of Sam’s increasing grip, I unwind him from my shoulders and politely hand him back to a smiling Tim.

An im-press ive amount of junk – or art – h a s b e e n

crammed into the museum. A one-eyed doll rests against

a mummified cat, and next door a mannequin wears a red sequin suit. I cast my eyes over some of the titles on a bookshelf above: Enid Blyton’s Gay Story Book; Sex Instruction for Irish Farmers.

The next day, I call Mr Wynd.“Hello,” he says in a much high-

er voice than I was expecting. We begin to talk about his fascination with arachnids.

“I like tarantulas,” he tells me, with great seriousness. “The pet-

ting zoo is a won-derful opportu-nity for people to get to know them better. I think they’re wonder-ful ambassadors for their species.”

Does he inter-act with the vis-itors? “I’m not a very good people person,” says Mr Wynd, confirm-ing the rumours. “I think the mu-

seum is me in many ways, so I’m already there.”

I try my luck with a personal question. “Is Viktor Wynd your real name?”

“It’s quite a nice sunny day at the moment, what’s it like with you?” he retaliates immediately.

It’s not just his museum that is extraordinarily odd. As I bid him goodbye, I wonder whether I’ve re-ally learnt anything more about the mysterious Mr Wynd.

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NICOLE Scherzinger, Lianne La Havas and Tom Odell have all re-corded at Warburton Road’s Urchin Records.

And when Laura Marling wanted to record some-where she’d had a connec-tion with following her re-turn from LA, Urchin came top of the list.

It’s easy to understand why, with the light pouring through the huge windows, instruments strewn across the intimate landscape and a delicate smell of oak wood.

Dan Cox, part-owner and producer of four-year-old Urchin Records, says Marling is among the most talented to grace his studio.

It explains why her lat-est album, released March 23rd, took just three weeks to create.

Laura has performed in Hackney before - at Hox-ton Bar and Kitchen, the Secret Cinema and the Silver Bullet, among others.

This album comes over a year after her last, but Dan explains there was a lot riding on this comeback.

But what’s the mys-terious alternative sing-er-songwriter really like?

“Well, she’s just really cool,” he says simply.

“Laura is someone I have

a d m i r e d for a real-ly long time. it’s intim-id at -i n g

when any famous person comes in, but it’s more in-timidating when you really respect them because then they’re more important to you.”

He explained why she differed to other artists he worked with, that at times became a rant about the pit-falls of modern recording.

“Mercifully, Laura’s not into any of that shit. For her, we recorded it as a band and just overturned a few bits, and then it was done.”

“It’s not to say that mak-ing records any other way is any less authentic but this creates an organic process.

“I think it was always about spontaneity. As a mu-sician, she is just brilliant and everything just flows out of her effortlessly. She plays guitar and she sings, and for her it is just like having a conversation or

walking down the street.”

He finishes our conver-sation by explaining her attitude after cre-ating this masterpiece.

He said: “When we got to the end

of the three weeks, we lis-tened back and she just said: ‘Yeah, that’s cool’, that was it.”

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Katie Strick gets wrapped up with the wildlife at the Mare Street museum

THERAPY... BY SALTI’M hoping to cure my hay fe-ver with the help of a salt-filled room, writes Fiona Parker.

“The salt isn’t medicated,” Claudia Marian from Klaudd Day Spa as-sures me. Just as well, because if not, I could be sitting in a room full of cocaine.

I was curious to know whether the salts, import-ed from Estonian caves, would live up to their claims of treat-ing asthma, sinusitis, chronic bronchitis and my particular allergy, hayfever.

As I open the door to my salt castle, a regular leaves. So, how was it for her?

“Very good - I suffer from quite bad sini-

tus and it works for me.

“Most peo-ple feel an im-provement and they think that the phlegm has cleared from

their chest,” Claudia tells me.

After 55 minutes of treatment, I doubt I’m

cured, but it’s more fun than a mug-full of Lemsip.

‘An army of exotic reptiles,

amphibians and bugs came

along for a weekend

minibreak’

THE latest in a trend of bizarre outlets opening in Hackney is a fox cafe, due to open in May.

The location is unknown, but patrons will be able to cuddle and play with six young foxes, who are

trained and domesticated.The cafe will serve hot drinks,

Fox’s Biscuits and Fox’s Glacier Mints.

Fox café sitekept secret

Photo: Jans Canon

Laura Marling has brought her new album back to the UK after a whirlwind tour of the United States. Agnes Chambre talks to the producer, Dan Cox.

A most peculiarpetting zoo...

Hackney... Laura’s musical home

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Laura Marling: The producerwho made her album fly

DUCKS HATE HEALTHY GRUBDUCKS eat bread. Fact of life.

Except the ducks in Hackney’s Regent’s Canal were told to slim down after gorg-ing on too much white bread - and it’s destroy-ing the waterways and attracting rats.

The Canal and River Trust, which looks after Britain’s waterways, told the public to feed the ducks oats, corn and defrosted frozen peas. But can the ducks break the habit of a lifetime?

To test this I bought a food selection that would make an extremely strange picnic and strolled to Regent’s canal to see if ducks would fall for my ploy, can the carbs and get some vegetables down their beaks.

There were surprisingly few ducks to be

found. Maybe they were hiding, I thought, sleeping off the previous night’s refined wheat binge. Given the amount of soggy

white bread in the canal I was worried they wouldn’t be hungry.

I spied two ducks and threw them some white bread, which they ate. But when I tried to tempt them with k a l e they turned their beaks up, pad-

dling away.Cheesestring, dried man-go and marshmallows all went untouched. When

I tried the suggested peas they sunk, leaving the ducks looking disgruntled.At this point, I ducked out.

Our feathered friends are un-healthy creatures of habit.

Hackney Post, Thursday, 26 March, 2015@hackneypost

By ALICE JOHNSTON

Laura Marling has brought her new album back to the UK after a whirlwind tour of the United States. Agnes Chambre talks to the producer, Dan Cox.

Short hair... a new look for a new album

Dan Cox co-owns a studio with Laura Marling’s drummer in London Fields

Agnes Chambre

Ducks’ dinner Hovis white bread

Sourdough

Kale

Frozen peas

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ALL FINGERS AND THUMBSFEATURES, Thursday, 26 March, 2015 hackneypost.co.uk

WHAT a bargain. Face massages, exfoliating creams and beard oils all applied liberally, for just £45.

The only problem is my tiny goatee looks ex-actly the same as when I arrived at posh barbers Murdock in Shoreditch.

At least I got a 10-min-ute facial with exfoliating cream, lemon and laven-der oils.

The wet shave, of course, was a cut above the rest, while the pre and post shaving oils applied to my beard were sooth-ing.

Now my skin is so smooth it could be fea-tured in an R&B classic.

46 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP

Nicola Slawson

THE £45 SHAVE : TRY TO SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

I HAD three rules for the night: No Boys. No Booze. No Judgement.

The Victoria Pub, Dalston, hosted the all-women fitness rave franchise on Monday.

Dance Dance Party Party ravers swap club-bing clothes for gym kit and WKD for water.

“The first dance can be a bit awk-

ward,” Becky, a Hag-gerston-based raver warned me, “but once you get into it, it’s great fun”.

C&C Music Factory blared and I felt as if I had been dropped into a flash mob.

Everybody seemed to have their own routine.

My trainers prompt-ed me to grapevine by

instinct. The lack of male ravers was not something I had con-sidered. I almost missed the boozy farts and leer-ing lads.

Finally, I settled into a part-jogging, part-box-ing move and I loved it.

I’d entered the zone and caught up.

No boys, no judge-ment, no regrets.

BEFORE...

...AFTER

By HAMZA ALICAN A SOBER RAVE BE FUN?

FOODIES have been snapping away for years, with the mugs of celebrity chefs domi-nating our TV screens.

But Katie Wilson has spent the last decade fixated on the hands of the gods and goddesses of gourmet.

Katie’s shot the hands of cooks belonging to all venues, from unheard greasy spoons to Lon-don’s finest eateries.

Chefs “handled” in-clude Angela Hartnett, Michel Roux Jr., Mark

Hix and Bob Kelly. But Marcus Wareing’s fishy story is one of Katie’s favourites.

“One of his first jobs was at the fish station in the Savoy. Going through all that fish and shellfish every day, his

hands would become inflamed to the point he couldn’t even straighten his fingers. This was be-fore people wore gloves.

“He would get blood poisoning so badly he could see it coming up the veins in his arms. He would be forced to take time off.”

Katie was first in-spired after catching glimpses of her friends’ hands.

“They’d come over for dinner and I’d see their hands covered in cuts, blisters and burns.”

But why hands? “I’m fascinated by

hands: the nails, the

callouses, and these big, big hulking chefs with big fingers who produce this incredible, delicate food.”

The most gruesome story she uncovered was about Bob Kelly from Kelly’s, London’s long-est running pie and ale shop.

“He nearly lost his finger. Bob was wear-ing a ring and it got caught in the equip-ment.

Half of it came off and was dangling. It was hanging on by a bit of skin.

“Bob went to hos-pital and they sewed

it back on. There was some decision about

whether to just chop it off.”

Despite the gory back stories, Katie’s appe-tite for hands has only grown over the decade.

“I was just really fas-cinated to see who these people are in the kitch-ens who go to amazing lengths and suffer these war wounds along the way.”

Britain’s top chefs are known for their food, but localphotographer Katie Wilson tells Charlotte Wace why we need to know about their hands

Blood

Clockwise from left: The hands of Marcus Wareing , Angela Hartnett and Marcus Hix which all feature in the portfolio.

‘They sewed the finger back on. They discussed chopping

it off’Katie Wilson/PA

By FIONA PARKER

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BUSINESSHackney Post, Thursday, 26 March, 2015@hackneypost

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Sandow’sCold-brew coffeeYOU’VE never had coffee like this before.

Sandow’s London was created by a pair of Hack-ney coffee enthusiasts, Luke Suddards and Hugh Duffie (pictured above), who wanted to share their passion for cold-brew coffee.

Cold-brew coffee is brewed much more slow-ly, gently infusing the liq-uid with a smooth taste.

“The coffee industry is super behind us – they love it,” says Hugh.

Observatory PressIndependent publisherO B S E R -VATORY Press is the next cool thing in indie pu b l i s h -ing.

N i c k Hermann and Ella Chappell are currently crowdfunding their first print run of gorgeous sci-fi classics.

Each is lovingly accom-panied with hand-drawn illustrations (pictured).

“There’s so much con-tent we can bring back to

New kids on block

VODKA giants are open-ing a new distillery.

The Absolut Company is partnering with Neil Chivers and Clive Wat-son in a distillery beneath renovated railway arches on Spurstowe Road open-ing later this year.

RECORD STUDIOS FACE THE MUSIC

A STUDIO where Tinie Tempah used to record is facing ruin because of a rise in home recording.

A b b o t t Street Stu-dios is one of many which may soon be forced to close.

“There’s a lot less money floating around,” said Tuba Karaer, owner of Ab-

bott Street Studios.Abbott Street has

seen the likes of rapper Tinie Tempah starting out, but as digital tech-nology has made home recording accessible and SoundCloud has spi-ralled in popularity, re-cording studios in Hack-ney are taking a musical beating.

Home recording is much cheaper and many musicians have all skills

they need.“As a

nation, we are training more audio

engineers than we need,” Tuba said.

For Tuba, these chang-es could be catastrophic. Last year, she failed to make a profit.

For Gun Factory Stu-dios, on Barnabas Road, the future is also uncer-tain.

Adam Vickers, the studio’s owner, ex-plained: “We haven’t put our rents up in ten years, and the rehearsal rooms tide us over.

“You’ve just got to look at different avenues real-ly, and branch out.”

By CHARLOTTE WACEAGNES CHAMBRE

MORE than 100 artists in Hackney Wick will be losing their studios in a scheme branded “murky” and “suspicious”.

The 60 plus studios on Wallis Road are being redevel-oped from July

as part of East London Generation.

Alex Watts, 37, an artist who is set to lose his studio, said:

“I have kicked up a stink about it.

“It happened in Dalston, it

happened in Shoreditch, and they were pushed here. Now where will we go?”

. . . And artists too

WHEN Mih Kha-biar set up his suit-case and bag busi-ness he hoped it would pack a punch in the local commu-nity.

But a year on and he’s facing possi-ble closure because people only buy his items during the summer holiday season.

“No one buys suitcases in winter,” he complained.

But he refused to consider changing stock.

“Suitcases are our speciality.

“I’m not very hap-py,” he said.

Suitcase shopkeeper sent packing

“NUISANCE” busi-nesses on Kingsland High Street are making life miserable for disa-bled shoppers, accord-ing to campaigners.

Members of the Hackney-based groups Disability BackUp and Living Streets have slammed traders for littering the pavement with sandwich boards and merchandise.

Brenda Puech, chair of Living Streets, said obstructions are “a nui-sance for people with mobility issues or visual impairment”.

Karl Farrell, 70, who is blind, is one of the

people affected. Mr Farrell has given up the half-mile walk from his home on Belgrade Road to Dalston Kingsland Station and now gets the bus.

Mr Farrell told the Hackney Post: “It’s not a pleasant experience to have to walk slowly and be on the alert for obsta-cles.”

Some traders have shown little care.

Dennis Parsons, of Suited and Booted, said: “The council come and take the signs.

“They’ve got funny rules about everything.

“It’s just people with too much time on their hands.”

SANDWICH BOARDS TRIP DISABLED

Absolut Hackney

Left: Tuba Kar-aer, below: Alex Watts

By AARON PAYNE

but Price was on hand to palm the ball over the bar.

In the 27th min-ute, Gavin Tomlin tore through the O’s midfield, leaving blue shirts in his wake. He exchanged pass-es with Ryan Dickson, but his quick turn and shot was high and wide.

McLeod made the differ-ence on the half hour. The former MK Dons striker was brought down in the area by O’Neill after latch-ing onto a diagonal ball.

McLeod made no mis-take with the penalty and sent Cisak the wrong way, slotting the ball calmly into the bottom left corner.

Crawley keeper Lew-is Price was substituted after half-time, having gone down in an early collision and carrying on until the end of the half.

Crawley made a fly-ing start early in the second half and almost doubled their lead over Orient through Tomlin, but his low drive narrow-ly missed the left post.

A reinvigorated O’s out-fit now dominated pos-session, forcing Crawley to camp in their own half.

Marvin Bartley tried to place one from 20 yards, forcing Jensen into a good save, tip-ping it round the post.

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The O-Zone

LEYTON Orient’s Elliot Omozusi has been nomi-nated for the PFA Player in the Community award for the second year running.

26-year-old Omozusi, a Hackney boy born and bred, told the Hackney Post of his formative years.

“It was a good envi-ronment to be fair, there was a close community in London Fields. My mum, dad and all my family are from Hackney so it was good being around them.”

His career began in Hackney Marshes

,Sunday league, before joining Fulham at the age of 12. He played eight games in the Premier League.

“ O b v i o u s l y that was my dream to play at the top

level and it was a good expe-rience, espe-cially being so young at the time.”

In 2011 Omozus i’s

career took a downturn,

when he was jailed for intimidating

a witness in a murder case. He was released by the O’s but when he came out of prison a year later the club gave him a second chance, a reprieve he is thankful for.

“It was more than I ever could have asked for and I’m very grateful to still be here,” he said. “One of the reasons I chose Orient was because my mum was ill and passed away, so I wanted to be around my dad and sister.”

Omozusi narrow-ly lost out in last year’s PFA Community Player Awards, which acknowl-edges the contributions of footballers to the com-munity, but is delighted to be nominated again.

Orient fail again Changed man Omozusi up for PFA Award

By JOE GLEAVE

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vid Mooney late in the game as the 39-year-old Dane got down well to parry his bobbling shot.

Jensen’s finest mo-

ment came in injury time when he made a save from a Ryan Hedg-es flick at the near post.

The veteran’s sec-

ond-half cameo might well have kept the Red Dev-ils in League One while Orient flounder in 22nd, three points adrift of safety.

VETERAN striker Kevin Lisbie has left Leyton Orient to go on loan to Stevenage this week.

The ex-Jamaica inter-national has found his o p p o r t u n i -ties limited this season with only seven league appearances for the O’s.

His last game was on 10 February in a 1-0 loss to

Notts County and it now looks as though it may be the last of the 36-year-old’s 111 appearances, in which he scored 46 goals.

L i s b i e conf irmed his depar-ture on Ins-tagram: “Go-ing to miss all the boys at

Orient we had some good times together, but time to start a new chapter.”

Stevenage will be the 11th club in a long and successful career for the Hackney-born player, which includ-ed several spells with Charlton Athletic in the Premier League.

Bradley Pritchard said: “He’s a great guy

and it’s good to have him around the dressing room. I’m going to miss him but he wants to play so it made sense for him to move on.”

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THE grudge match between ground-shar-ers Clapton FC and London Bari fizzled out into a scrappy 1-1 draw.

Bari may as well have been playing away, such was the volume of the Clapton support.

But it was not enough to propel their team to a victory on Tuesday night.

A physical midfield battle forced both teams into long-ball football, with Shomari Barnwell’s height providing an out-let up front for Clapton.

Although the Bari back line pushed forward in response, this constricted the midfield further on the narrow, muddy pitch.

Neither side was able to keep the ball, but Clapton looked most dangerous when using Fahad Nyan-

ja’s pace down the left-wing.

When the winger was released after 35 minutes to run at his opposite number, there was only going to be one winner.

Nyanja left his full-back in the dust as he teed up Barnwell for a simple tap-in.

But Clapton couldn’t hold their 1-0 advantage,

and Bari equalised within five minutes.

This was the last goal of a game which remained bogged down in the mid-field throughout the sec-ond half.

Bari could won the game after their number nine had Clapton keeper Bobby Constantine beat-en, but the striker stalled and lost his chance.

As the match petered out, the Clapton fans’ chants turned to disdain for the management of the club.

Vincent McBean’s ownership has antago-nised the “Ultras”, who chanted: “Where’s our money gone?”

With no more on-field drama, the spoils were evenly shared.

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LONDON GD Wom-en smashed their Is-lington rivals in an ill-tempered clash.

Fanny Legrand dominated with a star performance at Ley-ton Score Centre on Saturday.

Both sides played their part in a burst of early goals. In the open-ing skirmishes at least, it seemed to be an even contest, until Sarah Put-tner notched two goals for GD.

Tension boiled with a Veronika Mannle heavy tackle. A flurry of yellow cards followed, including one for home coach Jordi Cidoncha.

Despite Islington’s best efforts, they were powerless to prevent the breathtaking Coral-ie Ferrara from scoring three in succession, cut-ting in from the byline.

GD’s confidence grew and some great interplay allowed Bian-ca Berning to round off the half ’s scoring with the hosts 14-6 ahead.

Islington briefly fought back after the break, but Fanny Leg-rand regained the initi-ative for GD when she sent an unstoppable penalty into the top right corner.

The hosts absorbed Islington’s pressure and countered brilliantly. Legrand scored another three and assisted Sonia Vicente while the visi-tors bagged two conso-lations.

Fanny runs rings around Islington

made the most of an overlap to run under the posts and open Welwyn’s account in the sixth min-ute. Wing Dan Ashcroft converted the try, his first of a perfect record of eleven for the afternoon.

Three minutes later, Welwyn second-row Ashley Maxwell punished some poor tackling on a physical run to take the score to 0-12 after nine minutes before Dan Ash-croft converted again.

Welwyn were on the front foot as their backs ran aggressive lines and took advantage of an offload game after line breaks.

Tries began to rack up as Grehan scored again and Francis Denny scored his first of four, following a great wide pass from the inside centre.

Hackney responded, applying pressure from the kick-off to make their way up to the Welwyn 22. The forwards took matters into their own hands with a strong rolling maul.

Captain Will Bowers

received a flat-crash ball from the scrum half, twisting to force his outstretched arm over the line for Hackney’s only try, converted by Ed Clarke.

Hackney’s confidence grew, fighting their way back into the game as an Ed Clarke penalty took the score to 10-28, but a home win was not to be.

Second-row Maxwell scored his second try of the game, receiving an offload on the five metre line and jinking through an errant Hackney tackle.

Welwyn finished the game strongly, scoring 40 unanswered points through three more Denny tries, and two more from Grehan, while a lovely sidestepping run on the break earned Ashcroft a try.

The final whistle blew with the final score standing at 10-77.

Hackney RFC Head Coach Gareth Hather-ley-Hurford said: “That performance wasn’t really justice to what we’ve been doing this season. It didn’t demonstrate what Hackney’s about.”

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SPORT HACKNEY RUG-BY were demol-ished on home turf by marauding Welwyn backs on Saturday.

Centre Francis Denny and wing Phil Grehan ran in four tries each for the visiting side.

Hackney started strongly, pressur-

ing in the Welwyn half and exploit-ing some nervy passing from the visitor’s scrum-half but were soon torn apart by the

backs who went on to dominate the game.

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LEYTON ORI-ENT suffered a massive blow in their relegation scrap on Saturday.

Crawley Town clung on to earn a crucial 1-0 win.

Izale McLeod scored the decisive

goal from the spot in the 30th minute of a thrilling six-pointer at Broadfield Stadium.

A lively start saw Chris Dagnall link with Dean Cox on the right and break into the area, but his shot from close

range was parried by keeper Lewis Price.

The visitors nearly took the lead in the 20th as Dagnall tried to bundle in the ball after Luke O’Neill’s cross wasn’t cleared.

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Fanny Legrand starred as Hackney-based London GD triumphed over their rivals

The Orient defender tells of his troubled earlier years in London Fields

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