businesses are doing their bit independently. Shane Harrison, proprietor of new restaurant Shane's on Chatsworth , is committed to hiring staff locally and keeping money in the area. "I'm always wanting labourers and kitchen porters. It's hard, though, because they don't put their hands up. I have to hunt them down." But noble as the independent high street is, how useful is it? On the nearby Clapton Park estate, Chatsworth Road prices are not the only issue. They want useful, everyday commodities available locally -- a fish shop, a Chinese takeaway. Sourdough and comt cheese are not part of their grocery lexicon. Julia Johnson, who runs the Glyn Arms pub on the estate, says: "They are not catering for us. I go to Ridley Road market now because there's good cheap fruit and veg and products for black hair." The estate senses it is being excluded, she says, and it rankles. "They held a jubilee party up on Chatsworth Road. Did anyone invite us? No." There are numerous stories about rent increases and house prices , and not just in the more desirable Victorian streets. Mustafa Korel, campaigns co-ordinator for Hackney Green party, says his mother's ex-council house in Hackney central, bought for 70,000 15 years ago, was recently valued at 339,000. Few of Hackney's working class could these days afford an ex-council house at this price. They are not the only ones under pressure, says Rowland Atkinson, lecturer in urban gentrification and displacement at the University of York. With