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Hackney gardens to open for June weekender

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 May 2017 at 14:11
Abney Park Cemetery

Dalston’s Eastern Curve Garden and Abney Park Cemetery are among 20 green spaces in Hackney participating in the Open Garden Squares Weekend in June

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General Election 2017 : Full list of candidates for Hackney North and Hackney South

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 May 2017 at 12:28
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Nominations have now closed for the General Election on 8 June

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Greens promise ‘bold action’ on environment at Hackney launch

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 17:38
Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas vows to revamp energy market and create bottle deposit scheme in manifesto announcement at Woodberry Wetlands

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Tree felling in Hackney tripled in a single year, new figures show

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 15:38
Clissold Park

Council cut down nearly 200 trees across the borough in 2016, but says work is necessary to ‘protect residents’

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Pregnant driver jailed for ramming cyclist into tree in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 11:38
Justine Henshaw-Bryan

Police release shocking footage of Justine Henshaw-Bryan ‘using car as a weapon’ following row over mobile phone

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Richmond Road Medical Centre to showcase range of borough’s mental health services for awareness week

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 16:21
'We want people to be aware': Richmond Road Medical Centre

Tomorrow’s event at the GP practice will feature mindfulness and yoga taster sessions and more

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Cleaver-wielding man arrested after ‘threatening to kill Jews’ in Clapton

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 10:42

Suspect armed with butcher’s blade and large knife reportedly screamed at Jewish schoolgirls to ‘run away’

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Shut Down LD50 to ‘keep fighting’ after Dalston gallery reopens

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 00:38
Protesters congregate around LD50's entrance. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

‘We need to show them that they are not welcome here’, urges anti-fascist group as controversial gallery unveils new exhibition

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Hackney burns survivor floats free swimming scheme

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 13:21
Sylvia Mac

‘I needed to do something positive to help other people in my situation’, says campaigner Sylvia Mac

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Idris Elba open casting in Haggerston ‘shut down’ after huge crowds turn up

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 00:35
Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

Police called after hundreds gathered outside Whitmore Community Centre last night to audition for upcoming film set in Hackney

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Controversial LD50 gallery in Dalston launches new exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 17:37

Hackney art gallery that anti-fascist protestors claimed to have shut down is putting on new show called ‘Corporeality’

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Whitehall ‘passing the buck’ on illegal air pollution, say Hackney lawyers

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 14:10
ClientEarth supporters and the Green Party's Caroline Russell outside court last year. Photograph: ClientEarth

ClientEarth blasts government’s latest air quality action plan, released by ministers on Friday after failed legal bid to delay publication

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General Election 2017: Conservatives announce Hackney candidates

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 11:20
Amy Gray.

Amy Gray to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Luke Parker in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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Idris Elba scours Hackney for paid extras to appear in new film

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 6 May 2017 at 14:30
Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

The picture will centre on the borough’s African Caribbean community in the eighties

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General Election 2017: Conservatives yet to select candidates for Hackney seats

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 14:13
Hackney Town Hall

Party finished second in both constituencies in 2015

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General Election 2017: Labour party reselects Diane Abbott and Meg Hillier

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 13:57
Diane Abbott MP

Abbott to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Hillier in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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Grass roots: the local gardening group with big plans for Hackney Downs

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 13:34
Garden state: Hackney Community Gardeners are proposing to rejuvenate Hackney Downs Park. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Overgrown bowling green could be jettisoned for a host of new features if Hackney Community Gardeners get their way

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Titbits – upstairs, downstairs with the Greens and a skeleton-staffed boozer

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 11:01
Titbits bird

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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Hackney Family Cycling’s stolen kit found in police raid

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 4 May 2017 at 11:45
Hackney Family Cycling group

Group’s founder there to witness the bust following Facebook tip-off

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Green Party launches Brexit policy in Space

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 3 May 2017 at 15:14
Alistair Binnie-Lubbock with Caroline Lucas

Joint leader Caroline Lucas proposes referendum on EU divorce deal

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