Posts by Hackney Citizen
Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes
Make Hoxton Press your new home in one of these sought after apartments overlooking Shoreditch Park, and enjoy all the area has to offer
Read MoreCampaigners announce winning design for Mary Wollstonecraft statue
Artist and ‘modern legend’ Maggi Hambling chosen to create world’s first memorial to pioneering feminist on Newington Green
Read MoreHotpod Yoga – a yoga experience like no other, situated in the heart of London Fields
Try the first one on us – free first class for Hackney Citizen readers
Read MoreChildren’s theatre company launches offshoot aimed at young adults
Hackney Shed branches out to cater to teenagers who leave its care with ‘nowhere to go’ for drama
Read MoreComic – Sueño de migrantes
Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the Windrush scandal…
Read MoreRoad closures: Feud flares up again as campaigners clash with Town Hall over school pollution figures
Clean air group says monitoring results show illegal levels of toxic air at four primaries – but the council disagrees
Read MoreRichmond Road Medical Centre to host special exhibition for National Mental Health Awareness Week
Over 35 organisations will showcase the care on offer in Hackney at the award-winning GP practice this Thursday
Read MoreVinyl hurrah: new wax-slinging shops fire up the wheels of steel
As demand for the classic format gathers pace, a growing network of independent retailers emphasise the social aspect of shopping for music and the opportunities record shops present to discover something unexpected
Read MoreHackney set for ‘biggest ever’ Dalston Children’s Festival
Drag queen among the special guests for two days full of free activities
Read MoreDream Nails, interview: “we’re under no illusions that art is enough”
The Hackney punk band have a lot they want to do, and a bout of flu isn’t going to stop them. They talked to Kate Wilsea about their new song, how London’s music scene is changing, and their DIY attitude to pretty much everything
Read MoreStoke Newington farmers’ market celebrates 15 years
Growing Communities has been running London’s only fully organic food fair since 2003 – and is marking the occasion with a big party
Read MoreHackney woman to celebrate 90th with charity plane jump
Irene Lewington is hoping to raise £600 for St Joseph’s Hospice
Read MoreTitbits – Doorbells, ice pops and electable chin locks
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – ‘Real’ politics
Labour’s language of moral censure in the aftermath of the elections is worrying
Read MoreCampaign to save Clapton community garden pins hopes on 1980s mural
Residents calling on council to rethink its house-building plans are worried the artwork could be lost – despite a vow to retain it
Read MoreThree billboards outside St Mary’s, Hackney
Church rector takes inspiration from Oscar-winning film to raise awareness of homelessness in the borough
Read MoreHackney man’s fight for compensation over miscarriage of justice continues at Supreme Court
Sam Hallam’s murder conviction was quashed in 2012 after he had spent seven years in prison
Read MoreFree school’s move to former Hackney cop shop back on after long delay
Olive School’s bid to convert an old police station has been held up by council planners – and squatters
Read MoreGet outdoors in Daubeney Fields with Heritage Lottery Funded project
Whether you call it Clapton Park or Daubeney Green, charity EcoACTIVE Education have a jam-packed schedule of free activities for everyone to enjoy
Read MoreVolunteers providing canine company for older people launch crowdfunder
Pets Against Loneliness is off to a successful start – but needs funding to survive
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