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of Hackney Road in East London, where designer Benjamin Hubert has set up shop with his agency, Layer. Today, the police are arriving to sort out the whys and wherefores of a collision between a bicycle courier for the app Deliveroo and an Uber: disruptive technologies disrupting the constant flow of traffic though

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