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rat Dalston E8 © RowenaBond@me.com

Woman buys all of a Hackney store’s glue traps to save rats from a horrible death

09/14/202011/24/2020 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

AFTER LOVING DALSTON asked a London builders’ supplies chain why a customer had felt it necessary to buy every one of its rat-catching glue

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HackDns©DA16: Hackney Downs London E8 spring 2016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the Speaker’s chauffeured limo

11/12/201902/02/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,

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fish©DA19scale: fish killed apparently by pollution in rivers Lea Navigation channel after fire in Garman Road N17 0UR next to Pymmes Brook, which flows into the Lea © david.altheer@gmail.com 260419

Thousands of fish die as killer river sends airless water down from Tottenham through Hackney

05/26/201902/02/2020 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

THE LEE IS A RIVER of death this long weekend as the bloated bodies of roach, carp, dace and other fish float down from

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Olympic©DA12: Mo Farah and other Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the City of London at the start of the public celebration 10Sep12 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event

04/15/201904/21/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, TRANSPORT

  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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© Tom Murphy 080319

Big bad boss bird beats up proud baby family in Victoria Park pond

03/12/201903/12/2019 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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LonFields©DA: London Fields Hackney London E8 2EP 311016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Councillor dips into own pocket to buy trees for the people of Hackney

11/20/2018 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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rats©DA0118: rat in wood within Haggerston Park Hackney 220118 © david.altheer@gmial,com

If you go down to the wood today, beware of Haggerston’s frolicking families of rats

07/27/201802/01/2019 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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© david.altheer@gmail.com

Hackney moves swiftly, which is good news for these magnificent flying machines

06/20/201802/08/2019 ARCHITECTURE, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

* 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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Pubpark(m): Pub on the Park London Fields 251213 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Closing time for London pubs but Hackney drinks on to keep the ale flowing, the crisps crunching

05/02/201711/13/2018 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, HACKNEY SECRETS, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, Shoreditch

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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Abney12: Abney Park cemetery chapel Lon N16 July 2012 © david.altheer[ at ] gmail.com

Dig this, the story of Hackney’s gothic Abney Park graveyard is to be unearthed

12/13/201612/13/2016 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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