COVID-19 IS LIKELY TO HAVE infected two thirds of the UK’S ultra-Orthodox Jews, suggests a study commissioned by the community itself. The rate
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Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park
WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been
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🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season
IF THE SANTA EMOJI in the headline looks a little downcast it could be because the wreath displays are looking a little underpowered
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Things we may need but cannot afford: Hackney libraries find a way to let us hire them
THE CLASSIC “if only I had the right tool” excuse could soon be obsolete in Hackney households. The council has taken up the library
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Protesters fail to topple Geffrye slavery statue at Hackney museum under attack from two sides
* Update December 2020: It shall not be moved, the museum decides AS IT TRIES TO shrug off its Geffrye skin, the Museum of
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Best woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it
* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos
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Signs of relief as streetwise campaigners win preservation promise from Hackney council
HERITAGE LOVERS HAVE WON their campaign to persuade Hackney council to save a slice of the borough’s history. The council has promised to preserve
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Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in
THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming
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Ex-Hackney councillor soon to top the bestseller lists with a book hailing black Brits
* Update 101120: an exhibition in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, promoting the book, was vandalised A FORMER HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is about to become a bestselling author. Loving
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Hungry for a bargain? Around Hackney Rishi’s dishies are keeping eateries busy-busy
EAT OUT TO PIG OUT, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s subsidised-dining scheme last month August 2020 was not called, was such a hit that
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