* 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
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Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in
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Ex-Hackney councillor soon to top the bestseller lists with a book hailing black Brits
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Hungry for a bargain? Around Hackney Rishi’s dishies are keeping eateries busy-busy
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Way to Covid: Dalston’s Rio cinema posts a pandemic profit
DESPERATELY NEEDED GOOD NEWS for Dalston’s pandemic-era cultural scene as the Rio cinema turns a profit despite being Covid-closed since late March this year
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The sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago v the supposed silences of lockdown today
CLATTERING HOOVES, clanging tram bells and the revving of motor vehicles… East London streets were a riot of sounds in the Roaring Twenties. And
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A can of free beer for a hot day in one of Hackney’s biggest and prettiest parks
FANCY A FREE BEER? Pop along to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington tomorrow Saturday and with the right app you might score a can of
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Rare African artworks lost in Shoreditch find their place in a Hackney gallery
AN OLD SHOREDITCH church is the unlikely site of an extraordinary discovery: African art that has lain unseen for almost 30 years. In
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A poet pens some lines (without any rhymes) to put us all on the pavement to the pub on time
YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE a business that works out a way to capitalise on the worst crisis to hit the world since World
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