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Oct 28, 2024 | thelawyer.com | Pius Bentgens

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Oct 17, 2024 | thelawyer.com | Pius Bentgens

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Jun 14, 2024 | mirror.co.uk | Rom Preston-Ellis |Pius Bentgens

A mum forages for own dinner and eats poisonous mushrooms. Madara Riley, 38, discovered foraging aged six after watching her grandparents pick fungi in her native Latvia. After moving to Mansfield, Nottingham, Madara taught her partner, Matthew Riley, 44, and her two children - Camellia, 16, and Riley, 11 - how to find food outside. Now the mum-of-two forages "luxury" mushrooms for her dishes - some of which fetch up to £80 a tub online when sold in powder form.

May 21, 2024 | eastlondonlines.co.uk | Pius Bentgens

Omar Hamaoui arrives at the hip Bethnal Green café dressed in an Iron Maiden t-shirt, well-fitting jeans and a Keffiyeh draped over his head. His muscled former-rugby-playing-arms are covered in tattoos. He’s a spoken word poet who, despite his dyslexia, has been reciting his poems in spoken word performances throughout London and has just recently published his first book called “Saved by the pen”.

Dec 15, 2023 | eastlondonlines.co.uk | Pius Bentgens

Approaching St. Mathias community centre, a group of elderly ladies are waiting outside the door, disgruntled as they weren’t being let in in time. One of them knocks on the door with her cane, others complain jokingly: “I’m the only one who opens their mouth”, “they should have a bench that we can sit on”. One of them asks: “Can you go around the back and tell them to open the door?