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Protestors ‘reclaim’ Passing Clouds after landlord changes locks

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 21 June 2016 at 14:00
Passing Clouds supporters

Dalston music venue ‘repossessed’ by supporters and campaigners

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Clapton Girls’ Academy wins award as Carnegie shortlister Kate Saunders hails ‘sophisticated response to novel’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 21 June 2016 at 13:38
Hackney Carnegie Award

Nine Clapton Girls’ Academy students pip teams from 11 other Hackney schools to win prestigious prize

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Stik takes pride in Hackney with specially-made LGBT+ banner

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2016 at 17:38
Stik outside Hackney Town Hall with a smaller version of Hackney Pride, on which Holding Hands is based

Street artist has designed a two metre high flag for this month’s Pride in London parade

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Glastonbury festival-goers denied EU referendum polling station as Hackney councillor’s legal bid fails

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2016 at 14:36
Michael Desmond

Judge rejects legal challenge by Cllr Michael Desmond at Royal Courts of Justice

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Hackney man jailed for stabbing guest at Bethnal Green wake

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2016 at 13:34
Khalid Ahmed

Khalid Ahmed followed and attacked the man using a knife from a kitchen drawer

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Hackney Central ward by-election called

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2016 at 12:20
Hackney Town Hall

Ballot to take place on 21 July following Sophie Linden’s resignation as local councillor

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East End Trades Guild launch crowdfunding campaign for Independents’ Day

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 20 June 2016 at 11:52
Tatty Devine

EETG is working with local independent enterprises to launch East End Independents’ Day on Small Business Saturday

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Champion of LGBT+ inclusion ‘gobsmacked’ to receive MBE

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 June 2016 at 15:33

Former Stoke Newington School teacher Elly Barnes included in birthday honours list for her pioneering charity work

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Giving back and mucking in – expert vollies benefit everyone

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 June 2016 at 15:23
Volunteer Centre Hackney

From cookery to befriending, Volunteer Centre Hackney provides an abundance of ways to help out in the community,

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Chatsworth Road shooting: Moses Fadairo killer jailed for 18 years

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 June 2016 at 11:39
Christopher Erunse

Christopher Erunse sentenced for the manslaughter of his childhood friend

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Free school’s bid to convert former police station blocked

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 21:23
The former Hackney Central Police Station, before it closed last July.

Council’s planning committee scuppers cop shop school scheme

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Morito, Hackney Road, restaurant review: tapas with North African twist

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 18:26

The founders of Moro have branched out with a new restaurant on Hackney Road

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Hackney Council staff sacked following fraud investigation

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 18:19
Hackney Town Hall

Seven workers given their marching orders following probe into wrongdoing

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Hackney Foodbank appeals for help amid record demand for emergency supplies

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 16:33
hackney foodbank

Charity to hold fundraising events to contend with a 25 per cent rise in residents using its services

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The Strongroom American Beer Festival is back, and bigger than ever!

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 14:49
Bucking bronco

Independence Day celebrations, a huge range of imported beers, spirits and more

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You’re hired! Sophie Linden accepted as London’s deputy mayor for policing and crime despite ‘worst CV ever seen’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 16 June 2016 at 11:54
sophie-linden deputy mayor hackney

Police and crime committee ‘deeply disappointed at paucity and shortness’ of nominee’s supporting documents and questions her judgment

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A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 15 June 2016 at 12:02

Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted

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‘Wholly incompetent and dishonest’ fake medical staff employed with help of Homerton biomedical scientist

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 14 June 2016 at 17:04
East London NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services in the grounds of the Homerton Hospital. Photograph: David Holt

Two women landed themselves jobs with the ‘assistance and connivance’ of Homerton biochemist

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Chatsworth Road shooting: man found guilty of Moses Fadairo manslaughter

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 13 June 2016 at 17:39
Christopher Erunse

Christopher Erunse found guilty of manslaughter following broad-daylight shooting of a young father on Chatsworth Road

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Big Lunch: Shrubland Road street party is first in residents’ living memory

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 13 June 2016 at 15:33

Whole road closed for the day so that residents could have fun and get to know each other better

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