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Do me a flavour – Gillian Riley on umami
Known as the fifth taste, Umami is both a trendy concept and chemical substance – but above all a way of getting deliciousness into our food
Read MoreStrictly orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill ‘raise £1 million’ to fight child custody battles
Critics raise fear of new barriers for women wishing to leave Haredi community
Read MoreCache of knives discovered close to Hackney Wick following Mabley Green brawl
The haul included an example of the controversial “zombie knife”, as well as other weapons
Read MoreSave Haggerston Park group fights council over community garden “land grab” plan
Hackney Council “unable to provide assurance” that parkland will be reintegrated after use as temporary school site
Read MoreToday Studios: a workspace to thrive in
This co-working space in the heart of Hackney gives you everything you need to spark creativity
Read MoreHackney students get their GCSE results
As pupils across the borough get their grades, we bring you the latest from schools
Read MoreGrimeborn Festival, Arcola, review: ‘excellent programme of rarities and standards’
Opera gets back to its experimental roots at the Arcola’s annual festival
Read MoreWork for Hackney Winter Night Shelter: seeking two Advocate Workers
Hackney Winter Night Shelter is recruiting staff to help them get ready to welcome guests for the Winter season 2016/17
Read MoreLiteracy on the high seas: Hackney Pirates looks back on an incredible six years
Pioneering afterschool club’s founder Catriona Maclay looks back on its successes thus far
Read MoreChatsworth Road festival to return for a fourth year
Community-organised ChatsFest is back on 10 September for ‘good ol’ knees-up’ with music, food and more
Read MorePolice hunt for two men after shot fired at Hackney restaurant
Detectives appeal for information following knife and gun attack at a Turkish eatery in Dalston
Read MoreDiane Abbott Foundation spent nearly £30,000 on awards ceremony, accounts reveal
Sum was more than 80 per cent of annual budget of small education charity of which MP is the director
Read MoreLondon’s Olympic Legacy – book review: ‘spruced up field notes’
Volume provides an insider account of how the idealistic goals that motivated the early phases of Olympic legacy planning gradually eroded
Read More‘Techno-progressive’ One Love Party fields candidate Dawa Ma for Mayor of Hackney
Party advocates greater exploration of outer space and unification of all armies worldwide
Read MoreObituary – Colin O’Brien
Acclaimed photographer who chronicled the life of ordinary East Londoners since the 1940s died suddenly last week
Read MoreHealth campaigners call public meeting on future of Homerton pathology laboratory
Call for views of Hackney residents over ‘excellent’ pathology facility
Read MoreLiberal Democrats select Dave Raval as candidate for Hackney Mayor
Mr Raval was joint borough organiser for Hackney’s Remain campaign in June’s EU Referendum
Read MoreFloating Cinema comes to Hackney Wick flyover this weekend
Award-winning cinematic project to moor up underneath the A12 for ‘World Cities’ event
Read MoreFloating Cinema comes to Hackney Wick flyover this weekend
Award-winning cinematic project to moor up underneath the A12 for ‘World Cities’ event
Read MoreYouth caught vandalising council vehicle with warden inside
Young man caught red-handed graffitiing a council van
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