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Foster carer who has helped over 200 Hackney children talks of pride in her ‘extended family’

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 21 May 2018 at 10:54
Hackney Fostering 2018

“My greatest achievement is seeing how the children I looked after have moved on, having turned their lives around”

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Hackney Council fails to update register of payments over £500 since late 2017

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 18 May 2018 at 17:20
Hackney Town Hall

Town Hall says payments for 2018 will be online next week

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‘The Empire was a commonwealth of recipes…Britain was fortunate in having access to many of them’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 May 2018 at 14:24
Detail from Adriaen Coorte’s Strawberries Mauritshuis (1696). Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

With Windrush in mind, our resident food historian considers the folly, from a culinary angle and otherwise, of the idea of vital ingredients ‘going back where they came from’…

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Brain injury charity launches culture magazine created by survivors

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 May 2018 at 12:28

The first edition of Headway East London’s ‘Matter’ will feature confessionals, fiction, art, music, food and more

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Hackney Council’s SEND ‘crisis’ group held no meetings for three months

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 17 May 2018 at 17:50

New SEND boss Chris Kennedy rejects claims more cuts are in the works

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Anger after bin fire at council block where cladding is being replaced

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 May 2018 at 14:22

Lincoln Court residents say blaze is a ‘warning shot’ following ‘numerous conversations’ with council about safety practices

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Get your Kicks on Root 73 – affordable recording studio and arts hub opens in Stoke Newington

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 May 2018 at 12:56
Root 73, TRC's in-house recording studio, will reportedly continue. Photograph: Asher Korner

Root 73 puts out the call to young artists who ‘have the dream’ and want to develop their work and collaborate for free

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Anthology Hoxton Press: City living from new heights in Hackney with these one, two and three bedroom homes

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 May 2018 at 10:28

Make Hoxton Press your new home in one of these sought after apartments overlooking Shoreditch Park, and enjoy all the area has to offer

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Hackney has ‘around 18 street gangs’ says anti-crime chief – and council uses Met’s controversial gang matrix

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 16 May 2018 at 20:24

Cllr Caroline Selman says the police matrix supports Hackney’s Integrated Gangs Unit

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Councillor set for £6,000 pay rise as Deputy Mayor after cabinet reshuffle

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 17:56

Feryal Demirci could earn more than £50,000 thanks to her new job title

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Campaigners announce winning design for Mary Wollstonecraft statue

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 16:01

Artist and ‘modern legend’ Maggi Hambling chosen to create world’s first memorial to pioneering feminist on Newington Green

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Hotpod Yoga – a yoga experience like no other, situated in the heart of London Fields

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 15:15
Hotpod Yoga

Try the first one on us – free first class for Hackney Citizen readers

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Deputy Mayor loses SEND brief in cabinet reshuffle, as Chris Kennedy joins the fray

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 13:22

New cabinet member will be ‘leading’ on SEND as council makes £5 million of cuts

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Children’s theatre company launches offshoot aimed at young adults

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 13:06

Hackney Shed branches out to cater to teenagers who leave its care with ‘nowhere to go’ for drama

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Comic – Sueño de migrantes

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 15 May 2018 at 10:10

Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the Windrush scandal…

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Hackney youth worker says give people on police gang matrix apprenticeships

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 14 May 2018 at 18:39

Deji Adeoshun of Hackney CVS says good jobs can save young men from a life of crime

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Road closures: Feud flares up again as campaigners clash with Town Hall over school pollution figures

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 14 May 2018 at 17:34

Clean air group says monitoring results show illegal levels of toxic air at four primaries – but the council disagrees

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Richmond Road Medical Centre to host special exhibition for National Mental Health Awareness Week

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 14 May 2018 at 12:47
'We want people to be aware': Richmond Road Medical Centre

Over 35 organisations will showcase the care on offer in Hackney at the award-winning GP practice this Thursday

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Hackney’s energy company will avoid Bristol woes, says energy chief

By Adam Barnett, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 11 May 2018 at 17:57

Cllr Jon Burke says company will be safe from procurement issues

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Vinyl hurrah: new wax-slinging shops fire up the wheels of steel

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 May 2018 at 15:36
Crate-digging: the no-nonsense interior of Tome Records, a new opening on Graham Road. Photograph: Andrew Fawthrop

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

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