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Alternative V-Day Fair is a feminist celebration

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 February 2016 at 15:40

Decorate your pants, or buy a passive aggressive card for your loved one at a Valentine’s charity fundraiser event at Moth Club

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Hackney to lose 915 social homes in estate regeneration ‘disaster’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 February 2016 at 13:30

Critics say plans would ‘benefit wealthy property developers’

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Bethnal Green arts hub at risk of eviction awarded protected status

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 February 2016 at 10:00

No.w.here, an experimental film and arts organisation, is battling to remain in its East London home

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Feminism wins place on A-Level politics syllabus

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 February 2016 at 08:00
Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie

Students could now study key figures of borough’s radical past

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‘I can walk 1,000 miles’ – teenager takes steps to combat climate change

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 February 2016 at 15:31

Gabriel Stewart will walk the UK to fundraise for a renewable energy charity

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How to have a quail of a time this Valentine’s Day

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 February 2016 at 14:26
Quail with rose petals (and some beetroot for enhanced redness)

Food historian Gillian Riley looks at the many myths behind 14 February – and cooks up a lovers’ feast

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Police hunt two men over violent assault in Hoxton

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 February 2016 at 12:51

Attack on East Road saw two men attacked with wooden stakes

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Outcry over plans to bulldoze ‘community pub’ London Tavern to build luxury flats

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 February 2016 at 11:00

The 150-year-old pub is used by Irish and Traveller residents

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Get the picture: 'Brockley' by Tim Stoner

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 February 2016 at 10:00

A painting by the artist Tim Stoner is the featured artwork of this month’s column

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Junior doctors in 24-hour strike as majority of public supports action

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 17:35

Second walk-out this year over Jeremy Hunt’s new contracts

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Right to Buy ‘attack on social housing’ is close to becoming law

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 16:53
Councillor Glanville, Cabinet Member for Hackney Homes and Regeneration Estates

Warning that sale of council homes under Right to Buy will ‘destroy’ communities

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Titbits – Sporting Hackney FC and Simche Steinberger’s shot at goal

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 15:33
Hackney Marshes, the current home of Sporting Hackney FC.

An embattled month for local ‘treehuggers’ and ‘Corbyn the clown’

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Goodsyard developers’ £25k fund branded a ‘kick in the teeth’ for residents

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 13:33
Bishopsgate Goodsyard High Level Park Hammerson and Ballymore

Campaigners blasted the community fund as ‘shameful’ and ‘a patent bribe’

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Man who ‘targeted and preyed on vulnerable women’ jailed for attempted rapes

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 12:42
Usman Tahir

Usman Tahir handed 12 year sentence for two separate attacks

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Family connection to Mayflower pilgrims inspires play

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 February 2016 at 09:45

Don’t Waste Your Bullets on the Dead by Stoke Newington-based writer Freddie Machin premieres this month at Vault Festival

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Teenage moped rider dies and another injured in police chase

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 February 2016 at 18:05
Kingsland Road crash

Tragedy took place on Upper Clapton Road

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'The towers dominated the skyline': Beaumont Estate revisited in new play at The Yard

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 February 2016 at 10:00

Based on interviews with former and current residents of a Leyton housing estate, Re: Home examines what our homes mean to us

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Arcola Queer Collective: championing LGBT rights through theatre

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 February 2016 at 15:29

On the eve of their adaptation of Le Petit Prince, director Rubyyy Jones talks about the state of queer theatre today – and how genuine equality is still a work in progress

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Abney Park chapel set for repairs ahead of public reopening

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 February 2016 at 13:07

Oldest surviving non-denominational chapel in Europe to receive maintenance work to address ‘downward spiral of decay’

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Bloc Party review, Village Underground: 'time is the only silent alarm'

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 February 2016 at 11:37

Bloc Party are back with a changed line-up and new album, which they debuted live last month. Is it time to give them another chance?

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