TIME IS RUNNING OUT for you to crowdfund the first new swimming ponds in London since those at Hampstead were created in 1777. Clean
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Activists set out to crack Shell with their spoof ads on bus stops in Hackney and elsewhere
NEXT TIME YOU wait for a bus in Hackney, glance at the advertisements on the shelter walls. One of the posters may make you
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The glorious Hackney Empire goes grimey for the Arcola’s astonishing opera festival
* Update Sunday 7 August 2022: today is your last chance to see performances of either/both grand operas. Julia Burbach’s shortened productions will give
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Mega multinational beer company fails to sink pint-sized Hackney brewery’s Jupiter ale
A SMALL BREWERY is celebrating after social media came to its rescue when the world’s biggest beermaker told it not to use the name Jupiter
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Starry starry nights? In NE London you may be not so starstruck — and here’s why
STARRY, STARRY NIGHT is a rather charming pop song inspired by a painting of a Vincent van Gogh inspired by the Provençal nightscape. Good
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Now fancy that: how Hackney and other councillors benefit from LTNs
THE CLAIM THAT low traffic neighbourhoods adversely affect less-affluent areas in Hackney and other boroughs has been borne out by new research. Councillors
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You’ll never guess the table that Hackney now tops (almost). No, not hipsterness… Oh, you guessed
SOMEHOW FOUND ENOUGH MONEY to put a deposit on a flat in the northeast of our fine city? Well, before you offer on that
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Hackney’s super arts venue (the Barbican, ennit?) tells us how to save the world
Launching the eco-exhibition: above, Barbican arts boss Will Gompertz and, below, curator Luke Kemp IT IS a pleasant paradox that a world-famous arts centre funded
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Three in one: a black breakthrough for a legendary East London club
Above: birthplace of the Hammers. On the right of Bow Creek / Leamouth is the site of the metal-bashing factory where a works footy
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Access all areas: Hackney allows e-cars to ride through LTN gates and to do school runs
ELECTRIC VEHICLES WILL be allowed to pass through the gates of Hackney’s low traffic neighbourhoods — and to do the both the morning and
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