HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecture and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s
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Big bad boss bird beats up proud baby family in Victoria Park pond
THIS SERIES of photographs shows that even on the calm waters of a rustic-looking park in the capital, violence in nature is never far
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Replace your bankrupt builder… oh, and find £3 million: life as a social entrepreneur in Hackney
You may not know Auro Foxcroft but you may have occasionally wondered about the Tube carriages stranded on a rooftop in Shoreditch. The social
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School meals are getting healthier yet in Hackney students still pay to eat junk food
BY THE TIME HACKNEY CHILDREN finish primary school, one in four will be obese. And when they enter their teens, half of them will
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Omigod! Hindu campaigner demands ‘immediate’ withdrawal of Hackney designer’s swimsuit
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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Goodbye Gujarati Rasoi: another Hackney restaurant is struck off the foodie menu
JUST AS LONDON hits peak vegan, a Hackney vegetarian ’n’ vegan pathmaker restaurant puts its tables away for good. Gujarati Rasoi in Bradbury Street, Dalston N16
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In the pink financially? Take tea with Andy Warhol in Stokey — figuratively speaking
STRUGGLING FOR THAT SPECIAL Valentine’s Day treat for a loved one? How about afternoon tea with Andy Warhol? That’s “with” the celebrity pop icon
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Top Boy, top grime; yep, it’s gotta be another TV series about gang crime
A TV DRAMA about gangs and drugs… now where might they film that? Why, Hackney, of course. Gentrifiers (as if anyone would admit to
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Spoilsports end the spectator fun of watching tailgating in a Dalston supermarket car park
THE WEEKLY SUPERMARKET SHOP can be hard work — all that comparing prices, queueing to pay, fetching your bags home — but there was
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How a little poetic justice from a Hackney woman can foodbank a little extra for the needy this Christmas
POETRY… as a Christmas present? In a small book? It’s a hard sell. Add that the poems are about food banks and the product
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