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Hackney riots: taking stock
Local residents and businesses pick up the pieces and hope the next few days will be calmer
Read MoreLondon riots: ‘A generation who don’t respect their parents or police’
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief
Read MoreHackney rioters directly target police
Masked men and women barricade Pembury estate in largest confrontation of London riots yet
Read MoreTurkish shopkeepers stand firm against rioters in Dalston
Local Turkish community successfully defends its shops and businesses and chases potential looters away
Read MoreHackney rioters and police in hand-to-hand combat
Youths ransack area and use burning vehicles, bricks and bottles as violence moves from Mare Street and London Fields to estate
Read MoreHackney Council advises Dalston traders to shut up shop as riot fears hit businesses hard
Shopkeepers and stallholders tell the Citizen how concerns over more civil unrest is affecting them
Read MoreHackney shops smashed amid fears of further unrest
Several shops in Dalston were broken into last night (Sunday) during the disorder that rocked north London following the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham. Some other Hackney stores are closing early today as a precaution
Read MoreOlympic Park cycle track plans slammed
Cyclists castigate legacy developers for changing the previously agreed proposal
Read MoreSainsbury’s PR company in Hackney Council contract row
Firm lobbying for controversial supermarket development hired to design new council website, Destination Hackney. Questions about Hackney councillors employed by company
Read MoreClissold Park cafe contract awarded
Company of Cooks bags five year deal
Read MoreClapton loos to become community venue
Brooksby’s Walk toilets get new lease of life in an unusual reincarnation
Read MorePlans afoot for new rubbish incinerator by Hackney Wick
Tower Hamlets council considers plans for waste incinerator plant a stone’s throw from one of the borough’s creative quarters
Read MoreSam Hallam murder conviction to go to Court of Appeal
A 24 year-old Hoxton man who was convicted of murder six years ago is to have his case reviewed
Read MoreUnion wins council rethink over Hackney libraries cuts
Campaigners gain concessions as town bosses shy away from forced redundancies in library services shake-up
Read MoreGiant McDonalds at Olympics will hit child health, says Hackney MP
Shadow Minister for Public Health Diane Abbott slams plans for the world’s biggest McDonald’s in the Olympic Park
Read MoreMissing 15 year-old Hackney girl Roche Hector-McQueen found ‘safe and well’
The missing schoolgirl has now been found, according to Hackney Police
Read MorePolice appeal for missing Hackney man
Campbell Anderson is classed by the authorities as a vulnerable male and is not likely to approach anyone
Read MoreAnti-social behaviour: how Hackney residents can get help, advice and report it
Trained officers from Hackney Homes, the police and the council are out and about to meet residents concerned about noise nuisance and ‘difficult’ neighbours, 20 July – 3 October 2011
Read MoreMuslim Tory minister Baroness Warsi visits Hackney Jewish communities
Stamford Hill residents welcome co-chairman of the Conservative Party and Eric Ollerenshaw MP, former Hackney councillor
Read MoreClissold Park play area to become smoke-free
The council, as part of the Hackney Tobacco Control Alliance, is introducing a new no-smoking initiative in the borough’s most popular park
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