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
Read MoreHow 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,
Read MoreThousands 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
Read MoreBig 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
Read MoreCouncillor 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.
Read MoreIf 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
Read MoreHackney 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
Read MoreClosing 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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