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The Myrrors @ Shacklewell Arms, live music review: epic desert psych improves with volume

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 19 February 2018 at 16:27
Mystics: The Myrrors live at the Shacklewell Arms last Friday 16 February. Photographs: Casey Cooper-Fiske

Our reviewer stuck with the Arizona band, through 15 minute songs and a chatty Dalston crowd, to reach a climactic finale

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Hackney set to receive £317k from Sadiq Khan to improve streets

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 19 February 2018 at 15:11
Cash injection: London Mayor Sadiq Khan

The extra funding, which forms part of Transport for London’s budget for the coming year, will go towards sprucing up neighbourhoods

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Residents urge Hackney Council to reject three-storey block of flats in London Fields West Side

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 19 February 2018 at 12:45

TRA slams ‘unacceptable’ loss of light and privacy as council sends out consultation letters

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Village Underground gets £1.9m cash boost for Hackney Arts Centre project

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 16 February 2018 at 13:24
Easy as ABC: the venue as it looked in 1963 (left) and how it looks now (right).

Plans to turn the derelict Savoy cinema into a culture venue are taking shape

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Victory Mansion/TA-KO, Stoke Newington, pub/restaurant review: fusion goes down well with cocktails

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 15 February 2018 at 18:21
Corny: the charred cob was a highlight of the sides. Photograph: Jade King

The relaxed, shack-like cocktail bar is celebrating two years in N16 with a new Asian-cum-Mexican menu of tacos and other small plates

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Closure of Homerton’s Cedar Lodge will see dementia patients move to Mile End

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 15 February 2018 at 16:56

Doctors say the five patients’ move to Thames House Ward will improve ‘quality of care’

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Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 15 February 2018 at 13:18
Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March

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Hackney to vote on anti-semitism definition opposed by anti-Israel campaigners

By Adam Barnett | Thursday 15 February 2018 at 12:17
Hackney Town Hall

IHRA definition adopted by 125 local authorities has seen protests in other boroughs

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Lunar New Year: Hackney’s East Asian communities to unite for Year of the Dog celebration

By Andrew Barnes | Wednesday 14 February 2018 at 16:29
Far East London: the An Viet House in Dalston is set to welcome Filipinos and Chinese locals too. Photograph: HCCS

Members of Hackney’s Vietnamese, Filipino and Chinese populations are working together on a day of performance, collaboration and guest speakers – including Mayor Glanville

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NHS pays out £27 million for historical medical errors at Homerton Hospital

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 17:34

Trust says five-year sum is lowest for any London hospital with a maternity unit

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Success for Northwold Estate residents as Guinness Partnership scraps demolition plans

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 13 February 2018 at 13:09
Success: Guinness' plans have changed, and now only directly affect two existing homes on the estate. Photograph: Twitter

The landlord has proposed new plans to ‘infill’ the estate with 100 new homes

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Hackney crime chief says cuts to blame for Tower Hamlets police merger

By Adam Barnett | Monday 12 February 2018 at 17:58
Caroline Selman

Cllr Selman said she would work to ‘minimise the impact’ on residents

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Hackney police to merge with Tower Hamlets as Met looks to save £325m

By Adam Barnett | Monday 12 February 2018 at 13:19

Basic Command Unit will share police officers, buildings and resources

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Nightclubs face early closing time as Hackney’s draft licensing policy clears another hurdle

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 9 February 2018 at 14:59

‘Core hours’ and Shoreditch Special Policy extension agreed by Licensing Committee

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Up the Junction: Historic Pembury Tavern snapped up by Five Points

By Andrew Barnes | Friday 9 February 2018 at 12:10
Sold: The Pembury Tavern will be a new home for Five Points drinkers

The Hackney brewery, located just 100 yards from the Pembury, will put the Victorian public house to use as a taproom

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VIDEO: Ministry of Stories and Hackney students tackle slavery and equality in Houses of Parliament visit

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 9 February 2018 at 11:09

In the first in a series of video stories, watch Bridge Academy pupils give Westminster’s political veterans a run for their money

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Last chance to have your say on the future of Hackney’s pharmacies

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 9 February 2018 at 10:03
nhs graffiti by stik 006

Council survey on draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment closes tonight

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Dalston Tesco Express to become a 120-room hotel despite fears of Shoreditch-level anti-social behaviour

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 February 2018 at 14:30

Speaker of Hackney among opponents of hotel on Kingsland High Street

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Hackney tenants unite in battle against ‘poor housing conditions’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 February 2018 at 13:16

A new campaign group is opposing plans to amalgamate Peabody and Family Mosaic housing associations

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‘Eyesore’ boiler house in Clapton to be demolished and replaced by block of council flats

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 8 February 2018 at 11:35

Pedro Street plans green-lit last night will provide 26 affordable homes

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