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GP practice for homeless people wins ‘Outstanding’ rating from health watchdog

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 22 August 2017 at 11:41
Homeless man on bench

Greenhouse Surgery director describes Care Quality Commission accolade as ‘an honour’ and welcomes ‘wonderful’ feedback from patients

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Campaigners ‘mystified’ over Diane Abbott’s failure to sign fossil fuel pledge

By Adam Barnett | Monday 21 August 2017 at 15:30
Calling for more new homes: Diane Abbott MP

Hackney MP’s team cites ‘Shadow Cabinet protocol’ and unfair media scrutiny

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Residents to boycott Finsbury Park Post Office stationery shop over merger

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 21 August 2017 at 14:40

Campaigners hoping to save the current Crown Post Office drum up support as deadline for public consultation looms

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Older people’s charity urges Hackney residents to ‘make a difference’ in new pilot project

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 21 August 2017 at 13:15

Royal Voluntary Service launches trial in the borough which aims to reduce loneliness and ambulance call-outs for elderly neighbours

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Ex-Hackney bigwig plugs hate crime app in acid attacks letter – despite her own statistics

By Adam Barnett | Monday 21 August 2017 at 11:55
sophie-linden deputy mayor hackney

Only one of London’s 526 acid attacks is being treated as a hate crime

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MIRRORS Festival tickets go on sale and first wave of lineup announced

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 August 2017 at 16:44
MIRRORS headliners Pinegrove stop for a photo-op on a recent jaunt to Brighton. Photograph: DHP Family

The initial bundle of bands includes Los Campesinos!, the British country-rock stylings of Ultimate Painting and the buttoned-up New Jersey indie of Pinegrove

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A-level results: Hackney falls short of national average despite rise in top grades

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 18 August 2017 at 14:27

Borough’s 2017 cohort defies curriculum upheaval to maintain the gradual improvement in grades seen over recent years

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Woodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 August 2017 at 17:13
Peter Gosnell in front of two of his pastel works. Photographs: Andrew Barnes

Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies

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Rashan Charles: Full inquest delayed until next June

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 August 2017 at 11:48

Grieving family must wait 10 months as coroner says it is ‘impossible to hold it sooner’

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Hackney students get their A-level results

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 17 August 2017 at 10:44

On the day pupils get their grades, we bring you the latest from schools across the borough

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Homebrewing: Forest Road brewer gives advice on how to make it WORK

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 15:20
Got the bottle: Forest Road Brewing Co.'s Pete Brown chugs a couple of their pale ales, WORK.

The story of Forest Road Brewing Company’s pale ale WORK began in Pete Brown’s Dalston garden – we bring you his tips on creating your own batches of beautiful beer

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London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 10:52

LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil

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Visions Festival / Institute of Light / Billy Smokes review: out here in the Fields

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 11 August 2017 at 18:46
The view from Netil 360, one of the Visions venues. Photographs: Andrew Barnes

Find out why last weekend’s music festival was “irritating but frequently brilliant – much like London Fields itself”…

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Mayor hails reopening of ‘fascinating’ Abney Park Chapel

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 11 August 2017 at 15:50

‘Huge milestone’ reached as Stoke Newington’s gothic landmark is made available to the public for the first time since 2013

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LGBT campaigners victorious as Joiners Arms saved from demolition – for now

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 August 2017 at 17:13
Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

‘The Joiner’s Arms is more than just a pub. It’s a community to the people who went there.’

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London Fields Lido reopening faces further delay

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 10 August 2017 at 10:31

Council to ‘announce opening date soon’ as swimming pool refurbishment is hit by fresh setbacks

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Grenfell: Public inquiry must be ‘broad and open’, says Hackney’s mayor

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 9 August 2017 at 16:11
Grenfell Tower fire

Philip Glanville says ‘no stone must be left unturned’, including the role of contractors, as he sets out Town Hall’s position in letter to inquiry chief

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Hackney students on new blog: ‘the common room conversations just weren’t cutting it’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 9 August 2017 at 13:51
Press gang: the Twenty Minutes 'Till Bedtime team, featuring Neetu Singh (middle row, far left). Photograph: Twenty Minutes 'Till Bedtime

Neetu Singh has the scoop on Twenty Minutes Till Bedtime, a new site chock full of opinion pieces on global affairs created, funded and managed solely by A-Level students at Mossbourne Community Academy

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‘Senseless’: Hackney Wick campaigners renew calls to halt Vittoria Wharf demolition

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 8 August 2017 at 16:40

Local politicians also express concerns over LLDC’s plans to tear down the site and replace it with a bridge

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Vegan options: what’s driving the animal product-free takeover of Hackney grub?

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 7 August 2017 at 15:11
Plant people: proprietors of vegan business Temple of Hackney (Rebecca McGuinness & Pat O’Shea)

The popularity of plant-based foodstuffs in the borough is not just a fashion – we look at the other factors playing a part in the success of the borough’s vegan outlets

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