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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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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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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