Sweet goodbye to nostalgia: Sylvanian Families store closes in Finsbury Park

By Sara Scheeres and Sara Valle-Martínez. Photos by Sara Scheeres When you walk into the Sylvanian Families store in Finsbury Park, it feels like a coming-of-age film, right when you get to the scene where there's a flashback to the main character’s childhood.  Everything has a sepia filter and when the protagonist looks down, they realise …

Friends of Wray Crescent: Being green and saving bees

By Sara Valle-Martínez Wray Crescent in Islington, North London, fills up with sunshine on a Saturday morning. Ten neighbours gather, pushing wheelbarrows full of compost, digging the ground with their shovels, and chatting animatedly as they chug their cold cans of ginger beer. They don’t miss a beat. They dry off the sweat on their foreheads before resuming …