Posts by Hackney Citizen
Dalston bar removes poster after ‘distressing’ artwork causes outrage
Image on poster put up on Kingsland Road was inappropriate, says campaign group Object
Read MoreTwo teenagers arrested after Hackney murder
Police appeal for information following stabbing on Frampton Park Road
Read More‘Hackney heroine’ accuses Liberal Democrats of ‘underhand racism’
Lib Dems say they are looking into Pauline Pearce’s concerns as a ‘matter of urgency’ as she quits presidential campaign
Read MoreRoundabout way to regeneration? Fears that Hackney’s Tech City will become a ghost town
Kirsty Styles investigates Tech City’s boom, and its stunted growth
Read MorePanzanella: discovering the pleasures of peasant food
Food historian Gillian Riley shares her version of a Tuscan summer classic
Read More‘This land is our land’: the Lammas Day ‘riots’ of August 1892
Benjamin Mortimer recounts a Victorian fight for local land
Read MoreOpen letter from Hebron
Human rights monitor Chris Venables shares experiences of the West Bank in letter home to Hackney
Read MoreJitters and elation as A Level students pick up results
Students from Clapton Girls’ Academy and BSix College share the stories of their success
Read MoreStopping mad: Council calls on TfL to give Hackney two Crossrail 2 stations
Cabinet Member for Regeneration says having only one stop would ‘waste the potential’ of the borough
Read MorePerson and Plate: dinner at Stoke Newington’s Aziziye Mosque
Over a veg stew, ex-Hackney Speaker Faizullah Khan talks cleanliness, cancer and Jerusalem
Read MoreI don’t have an uncle who works in media… so is a creative career out of the question?
6-9pm Friday 15 July, afterparty 9pm – late
Read MoreLeader — the legacy of the 2011 riots
Three years on from the riots, are we preparing for more civil unrest?
Read MoreTitbits- Trash talk and historic horticulture
Scythes and a herd of cows replace tractors on Walthamstow Marshes but is the Council’s latest recycling initiative equally as primitive?
Read MoreBringing up girls: An interview with Melissa Benn
Benjamin Mortimer speaks to Melissa Benn about the state of schooling in the UK and her new book ‘What should we tell our daughters?’
Read MoreEducation in Hackney: Cllr Bramble on the challenges ahead
Newly appointed Cabinet Member for Children’s Services on her new role and priorities for the coming school year
Read MoreHackney officer found guilty of assault spared jail
Sgt Pilbeam handed two year suspended sentence after being found guilty of assaulting mentally ill prisoner
Read MoreThousands attend Shomrim crime prevention open day
A community event organised by the orthodox Jewish Neighbourhood Watch saw thousands gather at Clapton Common
Read MoreRegister, criminalise or ignore? Hands tied over Stamford Hill yeshiva schools
Unregistered faith schools are no secret, but they aren’t likely to enter the state system anytime soon
Read MoreAskew Eyewear – local business profile
Help support your local community by shopping local
Read MoreRevealed: cost of Council’s purchase of Leonard Street gallery
Mystery solved as Town Hall accounts show it spent nearly £4.5m on purchase of Shoreditch gallery
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