A TV DRAMA about gangs and drugs… now where might they film that? Why, Hackney, of course. Gentrifiers (as if anyone would admit to
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Spoilsports end the spectator fun of watching tailgating in a Dalston supermarket car park
THE WEEKLY SUPERMARKET SHOP can be hard work — all that comparing prices, queueing to pay, fetching your bags home — but there was
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Youth stabbed outside homeless-help centre set up at a Hackney school
A YOUTH WAS STABBED outside a Hackney high school as it hosted a Crisis At Christmas pop-up centre. The 17-year-old was cycling past the
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Best guide to Christmas Day pubs opening around Hackney this year 2018
IF THESE WORDS sound familiar, it’s not necessarily that you’re tipsy, it could simply be that you read more or less the same last
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How a little poetic justice from a Hackney woman can foodbank a little extra for the needy this Christmas
POETRY… as a Christmas present? In a small book? It’s a hard sell. Add that the poems are about food banks and the product
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Hackney boozers its way to the top: more new pubs than anywhere else in the land
MORE PUBS have been opening in Hackney than anywhere else in the UK. Sixty-five have opened since 2010, a rise attributable to the influx
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Two Londoners aiming to break into the drinks biz with their own kind of energy
THE MARKET FOR BEVERAGES styling themselves energy drinks is a crowded one and, with sales of almost £40 billion worldwide, a fast-growing market. The
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Councillor dips into own pocket to buy trees for the people of Hackney
A HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is so worried about global warming that he has bought trees worth thousands of pounds to give away to local people.
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Battle to save the Acorn pub in Haggerston loses out to the wrecker’s ball
THE ACORN, THE VICTORIAN PUB opposite Haggerston Park in south Hackney, is to be demolished. Loving Dalston first alerted Hackneyites, in 2016, to the
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Reprieve for Dalston shopping village as owner backs off closure that also threatened street market
* Press this link for a crowd-funder to help to ensure the indoor market’s future * UPDATE Friday 26 October 2018: the Ridley Road Shopping
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