Hackney Anti-Porn Crusader Honoured
A STOKE Newington-based anti-porn crusader newsagent has been voted the best in the capital.
Hamdy's News, in Stoke Newington High Street, was awarded the gold medal for being the Best Neighbourhood Newsagent at a central London awards ceremony on Friday.
"Thank you to my staff and for all the good service we have been given by the community, and for everyone who voted," said Hamdy Shahein, owner of the 26-year-old business, speaking at the Living London Awards 2006.
Mr Shahein, 54, has been locked in a battle with wholesaler, W. H. Smith News, for the past 17 years in a bid to stop the company from sending him adult material in pre-packaged deliveries.
The father-of-three refuses to stock pornography in his shop and his bid to get lads mags and racy tabloids on to top shelves in other newsagents has been championed in the House of Commons by Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, and Claire Curtis-Thomas, MP for Crosby in north Merseyside.
Mr Shahein was also made an ambassador for peace by the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, a United Nations-backed, worldwide, multi-faith organisation, at an event last month in Wembley, north-west London.
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It will be interesting to see if this story get any coverage apart from in the Hackney Gazette.
Hamdy's News, in Stoke Newington High Street, was awarded the gold medal for being the Best Neighbourhood Newsagent at a central London awards ceremony on Friday.
"Thank you to my staff and for all the good service we have been given by the community, and for everyone who voted," said Hamdy Shahein, owner of the 26-year-old business, speaking at the Living London Awards 2006.
Mr Shahein, 54, has been locked in a battle with wholesaler, W. H. Smith News, for the past 17 years in a bid to stop the company from sending him adult material in pre-packaged deliveries.
The father-of-three refuses to stock pornography in his shop and his bid to get lads mags and racy tabloids on to top shelves in other newsagents has been championed in the House of Commons by Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, and Claire Curtis-Thomas, MP for Crosby in north Merseyside.
Mr Shahein was also made an ambassador for peace by the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace, a United Nations-backed, worldwide, multi-faith organisation, at an event last month in Wembley, north-west London.
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It will be interesting to see if this story get any coverage apart from in the Hackney Gazette.
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