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Parents to ‘keep up pressure’ over education cuts with park protests

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 16:20

Colourful ‘School Assembly’ action on Friday to feature child-led march and speeches from teachers and politicians

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Aphex Twin or Run The Jewels? Field Day releases clashfinder along with site map ahead of 3 June extravaganza

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 13:30
Drukq-induced: a mock up of what Aphex Twin at Field Day's The Barn will look like

Map shows magnitude of new arena area The Barn, as full list of set times for the 8 stages revealed

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Teenage poet takes first prize in hard-fought Hackney talent show

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 24 May 2017 at 12:15

Chifa K wins Alter Ego 2017 to mark start of borough’s long-running youth arts festival

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Hackney South and Shoreditch hustings: full round-up

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 18:41

Your guide to the major talking points during last night’s election face-off

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The Lime Green Mystery, Rosa Schling, book review: Dalston die-hards

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 15:06
"A hive of creativity, activism and social fizz": outside Centerprise. Photograph: Maggie Hewitt

The team at On The Record brought us history-walk app a hackney autobiography. Sister book The Lime-Green Mystery delves even deeper into radical HQ Centerprise’s colourful history

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PATHFYNDER – expert UK immigration lawyers

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 13:20

Need advice? Find out more about this growing, broad-ranging and highly skilled immigration law firm based in Shoreditch

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Candidates clash at Hackney South and Shoreditch hustings

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 23 May 2017 at 12:14

General Election hopefuls face public grilling at packed-out church in De Beauvoir

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Visions Festival nearly doubles its 2017 line-up as new acts announced

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 May 2017 at 17:32
Uplifting: scenes from MOTH Club as last year's Visions raged to its conclusion. Images courtesy Rockfeedback

Amber Arcades, Night Flowers and Wolf Eyes among those joining headliners like Liars, Sophie and Jenny Hval at the multi-venue festival in August

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Hackney students triumph in prestigious business contest

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 May 2017 at 15:06

Skinners’ Academy pupils win Prince’s Trust Enterprise Challenge after close-run competition with five other schools

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CitizensUK demands tougher action on rogue landlords in Town Hall protest

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 May 2017 at 13:04

Campaigners want council to bring in licensing scheme in Hackney to help combat criminal behaviour

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Get checked: Prostate Cancer Roadshow for African and Caribbean men to arrive in Dalston on Monday

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 May 2017 at 16:08
Having a ball: a recent Prostate Cancer Roadshow in Newham. Photograph: Spink Health

Charities Orchid and Cancer Black Care will be at Ridley Road Market from 9am – 4pm

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Alice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 20 May 2017 at 10:49
"Nonchalant confidence and pride": Pregnant Maria by Alice Neel. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London © The Estate of Alice Neel

A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture

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Rent campaigners blockade letting agency to protest ‘daylight robbery’

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 May 2017 at 16:49

Tenants’ group targets branch of Savills as it calls on government to ‘stick to its guns on fees ban’

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Top self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 May 2017 at 15:48
A triumphant Benjamin Ogbebor, his family, and Dr Robert Travers (2nd from left.)

The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first

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Two teenagers arrested in Dalston for wielding ‘monster’ knife during fight

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 19 May 2017 at 13:32
"Monster": the knife involved in the Dalston row. Photograph: Met Police via Twitter

Youngsters were waving the 10-inch weapon during a fight in the early evening of Thursday

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Pop Up a whole new living in six Hackney weeks

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 May 2017 at 17:30

A new support for brand new micro-businesses – Six Weeks to Pop Up starts 24th May in Hackney

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Council gets candidate’s name wrong in General Election announcement

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 May 2017 at 17:23
Dave Raval

‘Let’s hope the ballot papers are correct!’ says Lib Dem Dave Raval, who was wrongly listed as Dev on list of hopefuls for Hackney South

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Legendary gay pub The Joiners Arms “back in business” with events on Hackney Road

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 May 2017 at 14:26
Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

Parties to be held at Ye Olde Ax club, opposite the original Joiners building, as campaigners fight for an LGBT+ hub in the derelict space that closed in 2015

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De Beauvoir Association to host Hackney South hustings on 22 May

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 May 2017 at 11:16
Once more unto the polls... In 2016 we voted often

General Election candidates to answer the public’s questions at St Peter’s Church

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for June

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 May 2017 at 17:49
'Vibrant hues': Polyptyque Sassetta, by Monique Frydman. Photograph: O. Houada

In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond

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