HURRAH, CYCLING IS TO BE BOOSTED by the people delivering the Olympics legacy to us northeast Londoners. Proposals to narrow Westfield Avenueand Montfichet Road
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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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Councillor dips into own pocket to buy trees for the people of Hackney
A HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is so worried about global warming that he has bought trees worth thousands of pounds to give away to local people.
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If you go down to the wood today, beware of Haggerston’s frolicking families of rats
RATS HAVE colonised a corner of a popular Hackney leisure space. The wood created by the council on the southeastern edge of Haggerston Park has
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Hackney moves swiftly, which is good news for these magnificent flying machines
* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed
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Closing time for London pubs but Hackney drinks on to keep the ale flowing, the crisps crunching
IS HACKNEY London’s booziest borough? An analysis by two number-crunchers has found that the capital’s pubs are closing one by one, but only in
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Dig this, the story of Hackney’s gothic Abney Park graveyard is to be unearthed
ABNEY PARK cemetery is one of the less-seen jewels of Hackney, a place passers-by say “they must go into one day”. They don’t mean
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Hackney slates story that it is phasing out glyphosate in London Fields and other parks
HACKNEY HAS EMPHATICALLY denied a claim by Loving Dalston that the council is phasing out glyphosate. After the news site’s latest report on pesticide spraying
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Hackney bows to glyphosate pressure as London council bans it just days before EC sits on fence
THE PESTICIDE glyphosate is on the way out in Hackney. Pressure from Loving Dalston and complaints by local campaigners have persuaded Hackney council to
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The great green deal flop: it cost taxpayers thousands, says Hackney MP Hillier
A GOVERNMENT energy-efficiency deal was a flop that cost householders thousands, says MP Meg Hillier. Speaking as head of Parliament’s prestige public accounts committee,
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