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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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Wildflower meadow / field, Hackney Downs NE London E8 080716 © David Altheer

Hackney slates story that it is phasing out glyphosate in London Fields and other parks

08/07/201611/14/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, Shoreditch

* 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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Wildflowers planted by Hackney ccl on Hackney Downs London 150616 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Hackney bows to glyphosate pressure as London council bans it just days before EC sits on fence

08/02/201611/14/2021 COUNCIL, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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Meg Hillier © David.Altheer@gmail.com

The great green deal flop: it cost taxpayers thousands, says Hackney MP Hillier

07/27/201607/27/2016 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, Shoreditch

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

07/07/201607/08/2016 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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Elmina: café that was the fictional locale for Elmina's Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah 221115 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Clapton café that broke barriers for black writers

05/30/201606/29/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

* 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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AbneyPark: ruined cemetery chapel Stoke Newington Lon N16 OLH 25 Feb 2012

Rare fly Cockney is rediscovered in the dead centre of old Stoke Newington, London N16

05/26/201605/26/2016 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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

05/19/201605/20/2016 FOOD, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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