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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On your blocks! Get set for Paralympics freebie
WANT TO go to the London Olympic Anniversary Games? Hackney council is giving local people a chance to win tickets to the last day,
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Hackney lido lights up as long winter approaches
LONDON FIELDS Lido is to open at night. Hackney council has announced that from December 2014 the Olympic-length art-deco style facility will be, uhm,
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Row, row your Clapton boat, merrily to Henley
A GROUP of women rowers, and some men, are paddling down the River Lea from their Clapton boathouse and up the Thames to Oxfordshire
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Fantastique! Le Tour de France vient à Hackney
THE TOUR de France will pass through Hackney this year. Competitors will nip along Ruckholt Road, Eastway and Waterden Road in Hackney Wick then
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Twenty-one! Ping-pong bounces into the parks
PING-PONG, table tennis or even whiff-whaff… table tennis has several names but the beauty of the game… sorry, Olympic, uhm, sport… is that it’s
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Promoted Birckbeck Os leave division as champs
Paul (“Tintin”) Pether files on his team’s latest triumph: becoming champions of the 4th division. Onward to the 3rd! Birkbeck Orient 6, Eastway Olympia
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Birky Os feast mightily on the East
Above: Ben Archibald gives a post-match talk Birkbeck Orient 5 East London 2 on Sunday 21 October 2012 BIRKBECK ORIENT kept up their unbeaten start to
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Under-par Birky badger Bow into submission
Birkbeck Orient 4, Bow Badgers 1, at Hackney Marshes Sun 14 Oct 2012 Paul Pether reports BIRKY Os never hit top gear in this
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Shoot-out: Birky Os blast Young Guns away
Birkbeck Orient 3 Ernie’s Young Guns 3. Birkbeck Orient won 4-3 on penalties Paul Pether reports BIRKBECK ORIENT celebrated a long-awaited first cup win
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