awards, gongs and rosettes
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"God I love publicity. I could eat it, drink it, snort it and shag it. Publicity drives me in the morning, during the day and in the evening. I even dream about publicity when I'm asleep and sometimes when I nod off during boring client presentations at Weber Shandwick. And of all the types of publicity - the best is self-publicity!
However, even I draw the line when it comes to the very un-funny people behind the spoof internet weblog http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/. Judging from the turgid, rambling style and content of the website, I reckon it's the lot behind this other website http://clissoldpark.ground-level.org/. These are a bunch of subversives who think that half of Hackney should be used as open spaces for lazy unemployed people to lie around in on sunny days and for kids on ASBOs to terrorise senior citizens in at night.
Judge for yourself what kind of people these are from their website, which describes hard-working Hackney councillors like Linda and myself as 'social misfits, pragmatic nest-featherers, dogmatic lickspittles, political adventurers, opinionated gits and well-meaning fools.'  These people wanted Hackney to slide back into hung council chaos in the 4 May elections to stop us implementing plans for paving over 'parks'. They want to live in some nostalgic bygone age when councillors debated amongst themselves at meetings and 'parks' were full of grass and trees.
Old-fashioned Hackney park
Look dummies - are you stupid, or what? The work is 'park'. That should ring a bell or two, even in your pathetic little pea-brains. These 'parks' should be areas for people to park! That's why our Labour Council will start paving over Hackney Marshes soon to turn it into the world's largest car park in time for the Olympic Games.
 We need to promote everything that's best about Hackney and its friends across the pond and that's why I've invited Northrop Grumman to install a recruitment centre with an exhibition of tanks and helicopters adjacent to the new car park entrance. This will give some of Hackney's unemployed people and ASBO kids a fantastic opportunity to change their lives and become useful members of society.
In the meantime, I must make sure that I keep up with the latest trends in publicity. I hear this morning that Becks has been stealing the show again, this time with a display of vomiting during the Ecuador match. Linda - where's Augustus? Can you just get him to throw up a bit while I adjust the camera...."
(Via Luke Akehurst's Blog Was It Something I Ate?: .)
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Congratulations to all the ground staff and management involved in Clissold Park attaining the Green Flag award, the first in Hackney to have this (subjective) accolade bestowed upon it in recognition of its resplendent vistas and the way in which it serves its local community.
A special mention should also go to the user group, who broadly reflect the populace of the northern part of the borough, for their contribution.
There is no disputing the fact that the general standards of maintenance in the park post the enforced over zealous pruning at the behest of those doyens of landscaping, the boys in blue, has greatly improved. But apart from one magnificent bed by the wardens’ house there is a great lack of imagination. Visitors entering the park at the Queen Elizabeth’s Walk entrance are greeted by a dishevelled display “Welcome to Clissold Park” and the Rhododendrons that never took root could easily pass for a modern art installation, representative of futile urban decay. Great swathes of poorly maintained grass line the parks perimeter.
The council should enter into the great spirit of consultation (it appears to be all to consumed with these days) with the local community for imaginative uses of space whether it be for a skate-park area, a sensory-garden, fresh bed ideas, or an activity-area for young persons. Maybe consideration of community-involvement in plant maintenance could be given with an onus on inclusion by schools. In no way should one detract from the real sense of achievement this award must have imparted upon all those involved. But, in no way should they become complacent. The real work starts NOW, as the park has to not only maintain, but improve its standards in order to retain this quality status.
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It has just been announced by The Civic Trust that Clissold Park has won a much-coveted Green Flag Award, the first ever for Hackney. The Green Flag scheme has been running nationally for nearly ten years now, and the standards are pretty high, so congratulations to Mark White and his staff at Clissold Park for winning a Green Flag on their first try. Community involvement is one of the Green Flag criteria, so we assume that the work of the Clissold Park User Group, with its re-designed website, also helped impress the judges. Gosh their old site must have been shite.
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