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
* UPDATE November 2017: Hackney council’s claim that its employment enquiries are “now” robust stands in tatters after another terrorist incident when one 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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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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If you go down to the wood today, beware of Haggerston’s frolicking families of rats
RATS HAVE COLONISED a corner of a popular Hackney leisure space. The wood created by the council on the southeastern edge of Haggerston Park
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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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Hackney moves swiftly: not in the time sense but still, good news for these magnificent flying machines
* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed
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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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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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As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!
JUST AS FALLING property prices around London start to hit in Hackney, along comes a cultural scheme bound to add to the appeal of
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Hackney council admits its no-car policy is somewhat broken and is being repaired
DEMOCRACY, FIASCO OR FLOP? Your decide. Hackney council has admitted to Loving Dalston that it’s no-car-space planning policy has been abused. The admission supports
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