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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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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Topsy-turvy voting in Hackney election as woman is allowed to use husband’s polling card
HOW EASY IS IT to vote twice in elections? Very easy, to judge from an incident in Hackney in the 2018 local elections. On
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