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Why are some mentally ill patients treated like criminals?

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 1 June 2011 at 22:03

When Linda Morgan’s son Joe Paraskeva was sectioned, he tried to escape from hospital and was given a prison sentence that could see him spend the rest of his life behind bars. His mother has launched a campaign, Justice for Joe, to highlight his case

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Gay-free zone homophobic stickers: Muslim youth found guilty

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 1 June 2011 at 16:04
gay-free zone

An 18 year-old man was today convicted and fined £100 for putting up homophobic stickers in east London

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Le Quattro Volte – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 31 May 2011 at 18:10
Le Quattro Volte

Until 2 June 2011, Rio Cinema

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Summer portions for getting trim

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 31 May 2011 at 14:15
Delyth Johnson

The final in our four-part series on eating well from a local nutritional therapist

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The buck has to stop with Sharon Shoesmith

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 28 May 2011 at 18:04
Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North & Stoke Newington

There is no point making scapegoats of frontline staff. A case such as Baby P’s requires top managers to take responsibility

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Contract killers as young as 15 recruited to do drug syndicates’ dirty work

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 May 2011 at 23:02

Turkish crime gangs in north London thought to be linked to spate of killings

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The beauty of putting foods together and being prepared

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 May 2011 at 22:16
Delyth Johnson

The third in our four-part series on eating well from a local nutritional therapist

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Stoke Newington Literary Festival unveils 2011 programme

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 May 2011 at 20:55
Stoke Newington Festival

Friday 3 – Sunday 5 June 2011, various venues

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‘Big society’ tsar Lord Wei leaves post after less than a year

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 May 2011 at 13:57
Lord Nat Wei

Cabinet office insists departure does not mark scaling back of project, but Labour say flagship policy is descending into farce

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The 21 strides Phillips Idowu hopes will take him to Olympic gold

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 May 2011 at 11:54
BBC Radio 1 s Hackney Weekend 2012

The British triple-jumper is getting closer to Jonathan Edwards’ 16-year-old world record

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Barbican unveils Olympics arts festival

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 24 May 2011 at 18:27
Bamboo Blues. copyright Angelos Giotopoulos 007

Programme includes theatre productions starring Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett, and major Bauhaus exhibition

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Julia’s Eyes – review

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 24 May 2011 at 13:48
Belén Rueda stars in Julia's Eyes.

Until 26 May 2011, Rio Cinema

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Leona Lewis – interview

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 23 May 2011 at 23:26
Leona Lewis Hackney Empire

With a ‘more uptempo’, ‘darker’ album due out later this year, the superstar singer talks about what’s next

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BBC Radio 1 announces Olympics music festival in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 23 May 2011 at 21:58
BBC Radio 1 s Hackney Weekend 2012

Two days, 100,000 people and six stages on Hackney Marshes, 23-24 June 2012

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Britain’s youngest ‘hitman’ convicted of woman’s murder

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 23 May 2011 at 19:36

Teenage gang member known as Riot was 15 when he killed Gulistan Subasi outside her Hackney home last year

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Slavery claim women to receive payout from the Metropolitan police

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 20 May 2011 at 20:55

Four awarded total of £20,000 after high court judge rules their allegations were not properly investigated

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CocknBullKid: Adulthood – review

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 20 May 2011 at 11:56
CocknBullKid, Anita Blay. Photo: John D McHugh

(Moshi Moshi)

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RSPB condemns killing of River Lea coots

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 May 2011 at 19:38
Coot chicks and mother

A bird conservation charity has described the stoning of a nest of a mother bird and her chicks as ‘vile, repugnant and barbaric’

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McDonald’s opens farm gates for Olympic borough schools

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 May 2011 at 18:33
McDonald's - FAI Open Farms visit tractor tour

Hackney school children find out how the food that will feed London 2012 spectators and athletes is reared, grown and harvested – just don’t mention the chickens

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Stoke Newington resident plunges off tower for St Mungo’s homelessness charity fundraiser

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 19 May 2011 at 16:36
Melissa Houghton Guys Hospital Tower

Melissa Houghton abseils from London’s tallest abseil-able building, at Guy’s Hospital

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