* UPDATE Friday 26 October 2018: the Ridley Road Shopping Village traders have won what one campaigner called “a small win” but which could
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Child refugees: Do more to help, activists tell Hackney as part of plan to bring 10,000 stranded youngsters to UK
HACKNEY COUNCIL MUST DO more for child refugees, say activists for migrants from war zones. A charity, Safe Passage, wants the UK government to resettle
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First cut is the deepest: Islington takes action on FGM
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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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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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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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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