ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS in Hackney who shield their male children from the national curriculum can relax. They will not have to engage with the education
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Cheer up, sleepy dreamy, Blue Monday may have an East End surprise coming your way
* Update: All copies of the Hoxton Mini Press book were taken within two hours. See pic at bottom of this story PSST,
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Wreathed in glory and jollity… or homely Hackney Christmas competitiveness?
HANGING A CHRISTMAS WREATH on your door is like a henna tattoo: it adds colour and decoration but is not permanent. And like
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Another Happy Hackney Christmas Day: best guide to pubs opening around the area this year 2017
IF THESE WORDS sound familiar, it could be that you read more or less the same in 2016 because every year Loving Dalston publishes
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Art or act… does it matter? Miss Valentina takes you on a journey starting at a Whitechapel library
THANK HEAVEN for the Arts Council. Without it we might never see shows with names like Ideas In Ideas which, in keeping with the
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How you can play an easy part in a contest at Clapton to find a new clutch of talented Londoners
* Update 191117: The winner, the judges agreed unanimously (true: Loving Dalston overhead their deliberations), was Jessica Odeleye, above, of Hackney LONDON IS
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A Shoreditch design tribute to the lost Hackney firm of Goddard and Gibbs and its creatives
HACKNEYITES WHO moved to the borough before 2006 will occasionally feel a pang of nostalgia when they pass the building shown here in two
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A London living wage pledge too far when it comes to a Hackney social enterprise
SADIQ KHAN has been getting a reputation as the mayor who likes to say No. Uber, for example; the London garden bridge; the postmodern
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Hip-hop raised me… some great faces of rap are in your face in a Hackney back street
THIS TRIBUTE TO HIP-HOP is exciting Dalston. A spray of colourful street art, it complements the bustle and grime of this gritty part of
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A classic carnival. But uniting Hackney? No, the multiculti bit was not together
THE HACKNEY ONE CARNIVAL was a great success. Starting at the Regent’s Canal in Haggerston and winding through Hackney, it attracted people from
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