OFFERING JOBS ONLY to people from under-represented groups is unlawful because it is discriminatory. So says the law. Yet that is what a Hackney
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Woman buys all of a Hackney store’s glue traps to save rats from a horrible death
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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How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the Speaker’s chauffeured limo
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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Thousands of fish die as killer river sends airless water down from Tottenham through Hackney
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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Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event
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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