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
AS A NONDESCRIPT eaterie, the fast-fooder above takes some beating. Yet the Clapton takeaway has a place in the artisticj history of London. In
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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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Blooming boom as Chelsea flowers out East
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
* 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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Sorry story of a relic of a past Hackney horror
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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Let us spray, but in a safe way, says Hackney, as it tests splash-water replacement for Glyphosate
* Update April 2016: Hackney council distributed a press release to allay concerns about its resumption, in spring (sic), of the spraying of Glyphosate in
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Free guided canal walk to Hackney Wick
THE REGENT’S CANAL towpath is always a way out of the stresses of London. But why not walk it with a posse of the like-minded? Apart from meeting
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