FREE SPEECH IS integral to this country: the right to criticise the government; the Church; our head of State, Queen Elizabeth. Naturally, there are
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And
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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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Devised in London and made in Lancashire, a cyclostyle label riding on the Hackney word
MOST PEOPLE occasionally have lightbulb moments. Then the idea fades. Not for self-starters. One of them, music promoter and DJ Russ Jones thought of
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London Fields is no walk in the park for Hackney: hipster heaven costs the council £140k
LONDON FIELDS has cost Hackney council £139,970 it never planned to spend. The park’s popularity on sunny evenings and days, especially with barbecuing and
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Hackney rides in with fixie bicycles for cops
HACKNEY COPS are being given fixies to make them hipper and fitter. It’s part of the Labour borough’s rebranding (see We can be an
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Is this the hottest little number in Dalston?
CHELSEA’S Roman Abramovich has the number plate VIP 1 on one of his limos, Hackney-born TV-sleb Lord Sugar flashes AMS 1 (his initials) on
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Out in East London a splash of colour and style
WHEN A world-famous fashionista calls your collection breathtaking you know your decision to go into business was probably the right one. Karen Millen added that
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VHS is not yet dead: Dalston throws it a lifeline
JUST WHEN you thought it was safe to send your VHSs to the charity shop, up pops a club that has taken up showing
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Teenage talent shows off fashion style in Hackney
TEENAGERS in Threads, a Hackney fashion and textile project, will be showing their work this month. The students have been working with London College of
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