LONDON FIELDS has cost Hackney council £139,970 it never planned to spend. The park’s popularity on sunny evenings and days, especially with barbecuing and
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Eat, drink and be merry in Hackney… and sober
A LOW-ALCOHOL popup in a stylish venue is just what some of us drink lovers have been secretly craving — and one opened in
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Hackney saves on skips but tipping still a problem
HACKNEY COUNCIL has saved £50,000 a year by dumping its free skip service. Abuse of the scheme by builders and tipping around the huge
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New hope for people safeguard on pottery store
NEW GROUNDS have emerged for optimism that the pottery store can be kept for community use. Owner Metroscope is coming under pressure to withdraw
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Tower Hamlets protest winner still fears attacks
ONE OF the four people whose long-running protest unseated Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman is living in fear of violence. Leading Brick Lane entrepreneur
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Rio AGM promised news of executive’s changes
AS THE Picturehouse In Mare Street continues to build the kind of loyalty the Rio used to have, the Kingsland High Street cinema has had
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Gypsy prof’s Stratford hair aid to help Romanies
THE PICTURE at left shows England’s only professor of Romany studies. He has been growing his hair for seven months. Now it’s to come
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Hackney house prices up by London record 621%
AS HACKNEY council publicises its homebuilding scheme, Loving Dalston finds that house prices in the borough have risen by 621% since 1995. Which means that
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Hackney group gets £50,000 boost to fight crime
A CLUB set up to counter gang violence on housing estates in Shoreditch and other parts of Hackney has been boosted by a grant
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East End homes a hit in London – and Asia
IN LONDON they queued for five hours and in Singapore buyers from around East Asia joined in the frenzy – all to reserve a
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