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Grow Your Own, Eat Your Estate

With waiting lists for London allotments spiralling into 6 years or more, the new report Growing Round the Houses, from food and farming charity, Sustain and the Women’s Environmental Network, is very welcome. It advocates planning communal food growing into social housing and transforming unused …

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Muddy Manor Garden Allotmenteers: You Can’t Keep Good Gardeners Down

If you need to give your Glastonbury wellies a trial run before the inevitable mudslide next week then get yourself along to the the Manor Gardening Society allotments from 1pm today. You remember these plucky allotmenteers. They fought a brave fight against eviction from their …

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Boris Watch On Olympic Sized Bill

Like a newly elected mayor with a point to prove, new London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has continued his pledge to lower the ever spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics. Earlier this month he raised concerns that organisers of the games were failing to create a …

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Londoners Sceptical Over City’s Olympic Legacy, Concludes Poll

Yawn. Londonist is fed up of dour news pieces and negatively-biased research polls foisting bleak forecasts on to the public of an overly expensive and poorly designed 2012 Olympics. Are we heading for the crappest Olympics ever? Is the event going to bankrupt our economy? …