ALMOST 140,000 GIRLS and women in Britain are believed to have been affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), says the National Society for the
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Austerity… yet Hackney council finds it can pay £100k to 5 more people than the 30 a year before
THE RISE THIS YEAR of council tax in Hackney has been blamed partly on government cuts. Of course, a Labour borough would criticise the austerity
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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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A UK premiere in Hackney: how music hath power to soothe the savaged brain
As Dalston hosts the UK premiere of the film Lady Lovely Lute, producer-director Laura Stratford, above, says she hopes the documentary will help to
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Stabbings, fighting, racism, crack, theft, shoplifting: a hell-hot summer in the hell-hole of Dalston
AN OPEN SPACE AND A STREET in the heart of Dalston. A young man saunters by a shop and threatens to stab the owner.
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Hip-hop raised up this Dalston street art — a few minutes with a sledgehammer smashed it down
LIKE A GOLDEN FLARE these hip-hop walls lit up a scrappy corner of Dalston but now art has fallen victim to philistinism. The portraits,
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English? Forget it! Ten ways white people have of getting you to call yourself anything but that
IF YOUR SKIN’S not white, your name sounds foreign or you look “different”, white English people will say you’re: * British * a Londoner *
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Hackney out of tune as it refuses family request to mark music-hall ancestor’s grave in Abney Park
HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS DENIED the family of a music-hall comedian the right to erect a simple wooden cross on his grave in Abney Park Cemetery
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The terrorist in the town hall: he’s in jail now but worked for Hackney council for many years
* Correction 240818: Hackney council says that the plane hoaxer featured in an update to this story did not work in any of its
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What bollards! Street artist has fun with the balls keeping cars off a path in Hackney
THESE ATTRACTIVE VARIATIONS on the car-deterring bollard have been given witty makeovers by a street artist… and Hackney council would like to know their
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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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Stabbings, fighting, racism, crack, theft, shoplifting: a hell-hot summer in the hell-hole of Dalston
AN OPEN SPACE AND A STREET in the heart of Dalston. A young man saunters by a shop and threatens to stab the owner.
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The Waste Market is dead, long live Kingsland: new market answers Hackney council’s critics
WITH LITTLE FANFARE a new market opened in Hackney today Saturday 28 July 2018 and traders and the public took to it. Kingsland Market
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Dalston’s Ridley market is holding to its roots and Hackney is reviving Kingsland says council
* UPDATE: Kingsland Market today Saturday 27 July 2018 opened on the site of the former Waste Market RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted
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See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting
MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never
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Marks and Spencer churchy charity choice raises unholy doubts after Dalston opening
WHEN MARKS AND SPENCER returned to Dalston after decades away from Kingsland High Street, it decided to choose a charity partner that was local.
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Pub world buzzes as brewing multinational gets a generous taste of Tottenham ale
* UPDATE June 2018: Beaverton has sold Heineken 49 per cent of its shares. Beaverton founder Logan Plant said his brewery would remain “independent and autonomous”
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And
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Hope at last for ejected Hackney youth club as work starts on new premises
WORK HAS STARTED on a block of flats and offices that will include bespoke basement for a Dalston youth club. It will mean months
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Hit Dalston restaurant Fed By Water sunk by water problem plans new venue
* UPDATE July 2018: Fed By Water has moved temporarily to the narrow site of the former pub next to Dalston Kingsland Overground, immediately northwest
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