* UPDATE Friday 26 October 2018: the Ridley Road Shopping Village traders have won what one campaigner called “a small win” but which could
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Child refugees: Do more to help, activists tell Hackney as part of plan to bring 10,000 stranded youngsters to UK
HACKNEY COUNCIL MUST DO more for child refugees, say activists for migrants from war zones. A charity, Safe Passage, wants the UK government to resettle
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First cut is the deepest: Islington takes action on FGM
ALMOST 140,000 GIRLS and women in Britain are believed to have been affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), says the National Society for the
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Austerity… yet Hackney council finds it can pay £100k to 5 more people than the 30 a year before
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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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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A UK premiere in Hackney: how music hath power to soothe the savaged brain
As Dalston hosts the UK premiere of the film Lady Lovely Lute, producer-director Laura Stratford, above, says she hopes the documentary will help to
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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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Hip-hop raised up this Dalston street art — a few minutes with a sledgehammer smashed it down
LIKE A GOLDEN FLARE these hip-hop walls lit up a scrappy corner of Dalston but now art has fallen victim to philistinism. The portraits,
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English? Forget it! Ten ways white people have of getting you to call yourself anything but that
IF YOUR SKIN’S not white, your name sounds foreign or you look “different”, white English people will say you’re: * British * a Londoner *
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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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