NOW THAT COVID is no longer a threat, your life is pretty well back to normal, right? Wrong, if you live in a northeast
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Hostile-environment policy has led ethnic minorities to disdain vax clinics, says Hackney MP
A HACKNEY HEALTH CENTRE shut its door early because not enough people turned up for Covid-19 vaccinations. The Cedar Practice’s John Scott Centre in Green
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Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park
WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been
Read More🎅Merry Christmas to all🎅… happy Hackney doorsteps into the 2020 festive season
IF THE SANTA EMOJI in the headline looks a little downcast it could be because the wreath displays are looking a little underpowered
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Protesters fail to topple Geffrye slavery statue at Hackney museum under attack from two sides
* Update spring 2021: The museum reopening is scheduled for Saturday 12 June this year. * Update December 2020: It shall not be moved, the
Read MoreShoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?
WHAT, TWO DISTRICTS in London are more enterprising than Shoreditch and Hoxton? Yep, Holborn-St Pancras, and Islington South-Finsbury have more small businesses per person
Read MoreThe sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago v the supposed silences of lockdown today
CLATTERING HOOVES, clanging tram bells and the revving of motor vehicles… East London streets were a riot of sounds in the Roaring Twenties. And
Read MoreRare African artworks lost in Shoreditch find their place in a Hackney gallery
AN OLD SHOREDITCH church is the unlikely site of an extraordinary discovery: African art that has lain unseen for almost 30 years. In
Read MoreA poet pens some lines (without any rhymes) to put us all on the pavement to the pub on time
YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE a business that works out a way to capitalise on the worst crisis to hit the world since World
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In the market for a buy or a rental? Hackney may be ripe for the picking
IS THIS THE TIME to try to swap the shackles of rent for the bonds of mortgage? As we ponder life after the coronavirus
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