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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

08/07/201608/11/2016 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, Shoreditch

HACKNEY HAS EMPHATICALLY denied a claim by Loving Dalston that the council is phasing out glyphosate. After the news site’s latest report on pesticide spraying

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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

08/02/201608/31/2016 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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Blooming boom as Chelsea flowers out East

05/06/201605/08/2016 FOOD, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

UNTIL IT GOT a fringe festival, the Chelsea flower show used to put off some people because of the middle-class, middle-and-older-aged image of its supposed

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Revived 200 years on: the Woodberry wonder

04/29/201612/13/2016 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

* UPDATE 060516: As well as having the honour of opening a Hackney reserve, “Sir David Attenborough” is to be the name of the

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St Augustine tower Narrow Wayu/Mare Street Hackney London E8 © david.altheer[at] gmail.com

Sorry story of a relic of a past Hackney horror

01/26/201606/14/2016 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

THAT EXCELLENT guardian of our past, the Hackney Society, has launched a campaign to save a grim reminder of a time when punishment was

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