Danger: these street lamps may fall on you in 2023

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The council has said that the lamps in Stoke Newington Church Street are coming down.

But locals say they don't believe they pose a threat now or are likely to in future.

Resident Damian Duggan-Ryan said: "There are these lovely old lamps around the church and they are being replaced because the council says they might fall down in 10 to 15 years. Anything could happen in that time."

But Alan Laing, Hackney council's cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said: "The new lights are the latest stage in the council's programme to deliver safer streets for our residents.

"In doing so, we are replacing the ageing, and in some cases dangerous, lighting stock with modern steel columns."