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Dangerous superbug on the rise at Homerton Hospital, new figures show

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 15:36
Laboratory

Local expert says increase is further evidence of an ‘alarming’ boom in antibiotic resistance across the globe

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Boy aged 12 caught carrying 8-inch blade in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 16 May 2017 at 11:46

Youngster was remanded in custody after being arrested following alleged robbery in Stoke Newington earlier this month

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Climate campaigners set for Saturday stunt in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 May 2017 at 15:01

Divest Hackney supporters to chase ‘giant fossil fuel monster’ out of borough in protest at council’s investment strategy

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Hackney gardens to open for June weekender

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 May 2017 at 14:11
Abney Park Cemetery

Dalston’s Eastern Curve Garden and Abney Park Cemetery are among 20 green spaces in Hackney participating in the Open Garden Squares Weekend in June

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General Election 2017 : Full list of candidates for Hackney North and Hackney South

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 May 2017 at 12:28
Polling station credit Martin Deutsch

Nominations have now closed for the General Election on 8 June

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Greens promise ‘bold action’ on environment at Hackney launch

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 17:38
Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas vows to revamp energy market and create bottle deposit scheme in manifesto announcement at Woodberry Wetlands

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Alas! Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet tour to stop at Hackney Empire next year

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 16:42
Paapa Essiedu (right) as Hamlet, pictured with Yorick (left). Photograph: Royal Shakespeare Company

Londoner Paapa Essiedu to star in the production, which reimagines Denmark as a modern, African-influenced state

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Tree felling in Hackney tripled in a single year, new figures show

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 15:38
Clissold Park

Council cut down nearly 200 trees across the borough in 2016, but says work is necessary to ‘protect residents’

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“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 13:06
"We’ll be unemployed after ten years here": Franco Aviette, the proprietor of Griddlers' Café

Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life

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Pregnant driver jailed for ramming cyclist into tree in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 11 May 2017 at 11:38
Justine Henshaw-Bryan

Police release shocking footage of Justine Henshaw-Bryan ‘using car as a weapon’ following row over mobile phone

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Richmond Road Medical Centre to showcase range of borough’s mental health services for awareness week

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 16:21
'We want people to be aware': Richmond Road Medical Centre

Tomorrow’s event at the GP practice will feature mindfulness and yoga taster sessions and more

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Maeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 13:25
A shot from Maeve Brennan’s The Drift (2017). Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery; Spike Island; The Whitworth, The University of Manchester; and Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore. Courtesy of the artist.

In this new film installation currently showing at the Chisenhale Gallery, the artist and filmmaker’s camera pens a love letter to painstakingly reconstructed Lebanese artefacts

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Cleaver-wielding man arrested after ‘threatening to kill Jews’ in Clapton

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 10:42

Suspect armed with butcher’s blade and large knife reportedly screamed at Jewish schoolgirls to ‘run away’

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Shut Down LD50 to ‘keep fighting’ after Dalston gallery reopens

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 00:38
Protesters congregate around LD50's entrance. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

‘We need to show them that they are not welcome here’, urges anti-fascist group as controversial gallery unveils new exhibition

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Les Nénettes, Clapton, restaurant review – ‘classic southern French’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 14:58
Très bien: the exterior of Les Nénettes. Images: Les Nénettes

This new French restaurant on La rue de Lower Clapton offers fine fare from apéritifs to main course

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Hackney burns survivor floats free swimming scheme

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 13:21
Sylvia Mac

‘I needed to do something positive to help other people in my situation’, says campaigner Sylvia Mac

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Client Earth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman, book review – ‘a fight to protect our natural habitat’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 11:09
Earth, bound: Client Earth’s authors James Thornton (l) & Martin Goodman (r). Images: Scribe Publications

The London Fields-based environmental law firm ClientEarth scored another victory last month in their battle for clean air. A new book outlines their philosophies

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Idris Elba open casting in Haggerston ‘shut down’ after huge crowds turn up

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 9 May 2017 at 00:35
Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

Police called after hundreds gathered outside Whitmore Community Centre last night to audition for upcoming film set in Hackney

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Controversial LD50 gallery in Dalston launches new exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 17:37

Hackney art gallery that anti-fascist protestors claimed to have shut down is putting on new show called ‘Corporeality’

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For whom the bell tolls: the world of Breathing Space

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 15:25
Space cadets: the Breathing Space collective. Photograph: © E5 Process Collective

We talk to the sonic art collective, fresh from their latest time-bending, meditative sound installation at St. Augustine’s Tower

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