Posts by Hackney Citizen
Goodgym – exercising to improve body and soul
Social enterprise volunteers break a sweat by working out while helping the community
Read MoreRelief for Hackney parents but future looks bleak for school admissions
London needs 118,000 extra school places by 2016 claims new report
Read MoreKen Livingstone launches construction training academy in Stamford Hill
The former London mayor hopes construction training academy will help deliver jobs
Read MoreHackney teachers want the environment to stay on curriculum
Plans to put the freeze on climate change and environmental issues on the National Curriculum attract criticism
Read MoreEducation overload – will longer school hours help Hackney’s poorer students?
Michael Gove’s latest plan to lengthen the school day and shorten holidays receives a mixed reception in Hackney
Read MoreStay out of debt with free advice from Hackney CAB
Citizens Advice Bureau now offers a new Money Smart advice service for social housing tenants
Read MoreHackney schoolboy fatally stabbed on 16th birthday
Parents to bury their son along with unopened birthday card
Read MoreNew plans for high-rise flats on Kingsland High Street
Transport for London and developers try again with plans to build 106 flats in Dalston after previous application failed
Read MoreDangerous dog attack – Hackney Council failed to protect employee
Compensation agreed for traumatised man who was bitten by a pitbull whilst working for Hackney Council
Read MoreThe Look of Love – review
Steve Coogan is Soho sex king Paul Raymond, the porn baron who became one of Britain’s richest men
Read MoreGeffrye Museum expansion plans thrown out by Hackney Council
Campaigners jubilant but director David Dewing speaks of “bitter disappointment”
Read MoreUnprovoked attack in Birthdays bar – police appeal for witnesses
Man suffers fractured cheekbone after being hit with a glass in a popular Dalston bar
Read MoreThe Place Beyond the Pines – review
The new movie from Derek Cianfrance is a modern-day morality tale
Read MoreA Star is born by Hackney Downs
New pub opens at former Three Sisters premises on Queensdown Road
Read MoreWin tickets to Field Day 2013
Win tickets to the festival’s seventh year to see Bat For Lashes, Animal Collective, Disclosure and more
Read MorePolice appeal after woman sexually assaulted on Regent’s Canal
Twenty-year old woman throws herself into the canal to escape her attacker
Read MoreMorning Bride – The North Sea Rising
Hackney band’s new album aims to give unbridled listening pleasure
Read MoreHackney gets new ward boundaries in advance of 2014 local elections
Finalised changes now await parliamentary approval
Read MoreHackney MP and residents speak out over £10m Thatcher funeral cost
In the wake of Hackney MP Diane Abbott’s criticism of the cost of tomorrow’s ceremony, the Citizen took to the streets to hear what locals have to say
Read MoreSpring Breakers – review
The antics of four bikini-clad heroines on spring vacation form the narrative of this mixed-up movie
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