* 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
* Update 121121: Hackney council today announced progress towards making the green spaces on its 237 estates glyphosate-free. Housing councillor Clayeon McKenzie said: “…our estates
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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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A solo East European migrant draws watchers to a willow tree in Walthamstow Marshes
EXCITEMENT on Walthamstow Marshes and it was nothing to do with the imminent anniversary of the first British powered flight that took place there 107
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Clapton café that broke barriers for black writers
* Update autumn 2018: Kwame Kwei-Armah is lured back to London when he is appointed artistic director of the Young Vic AS A NONDESCRIPT eaterie,
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Rare fly Cockney is rediscovered in the dead centre of old Stoke Newington, London N16
A RARE HOVERFLY thought to have disappeared from London has been rediscovered in Stoke Newington. Pocota personata was identified by Dalston’s Russell Miller in Abney
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Eel meet again… you can help this Cockney staple through the watercourses of Hackney
EELS ARE a part of East End culture: even vegetarian incomers have heard of F Cooke and other classic eel-and-pie shops. But for the
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