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Grenfell: Diane Abbott urges retro-fitting of sprinklers in Hackney blocks

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 July 2017 at 12:34
Diane Abbott MP

Shadow Home Secretary calls for Lakanal coroner’s recommendations to be implemented

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Hackney Museum goes Pop with new radical printmaking exhibition

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 July 2017 at 16:15
Soup of the day: Hackney Museum workers hang their Warhol. Photograph: Hackney Museum

Warhol to Walker: American prints from pop art to today traces the movement’s influence on Hackney’s political posters

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ELATT: a learning community that helps people of all ages move forward in their lives

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 July 2017 at 11:02
elatt

At ELATT we think everyone should have the chance to learn new skills. So whoever you are, whatever your age and wherever you’re from, we’re here to help you take your future further

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Meet the man monkeying around with 1970s T-shirt transfers

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 July 2017 at 17:18
“I came across a room filled to the brim with old 1970’s T shirt transfers” - Andrew Rutland. Photograph: Christopher Sims

Andrew Rutland runs Let It Gibbon, a stall that allows people to cut and paste their selection of authentically retro decals onto their own unique shirt

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Eighty-five new FGM cases in Hackney and City last year, NHS figures show

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 July 2017 at 16:51

Annual report reveals number of FGM attendances dropped by just 0.5 per cent in 2016

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A cinema lover’s double-bill: council approve licence for new Hoxton cinema as Rio launches crowdfunder

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 July 2017 at 12:32
Facade: a mock-up of the new Curzon frontage. Image: Hackney Council

Mayor Glanville lends support to the all-new Curzon planned for Pitfield Street and Sadiq Khan is among backers of the long-promised ‘RIOgeneration’

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Cardinal Pole pupils raise £760 for Grenfell victims

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 July 2017 at 11:46

‘Proactive’ Year Nine students organise non-uniform day for entire school

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Hackney’s homeless denied ‘appropriate’ end-of-life care

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 July 2017 at 17:01
Homeless man on bench

Study published today finds homeless people ‘do not have same access to support as others’

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Residents up in arms over Northwold Estate ‘dumping ground’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 July 2017 at 11:15

Landlord under fire as rubbish including fridges, furniture and building materials is left outside people’s homes

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Picturehouse investigates allegations of ‘cyber attacks’ by union members

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 6 July 2017 at 08:29

Screen giant claims an email sent from a union address ‘instructed employees to encourage attacks’ on its website in support of long-running strike action

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Avant-garde musicians lend support to Grenfell Tower victims as Cafe Oto benefit announced

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 5 July 2017 at 17:27
Grenfell Benefit Cafe Oto

The Dalston event comprises two performances – a matinee and an evening show – and attendees will hear a dizzying range of genres from free jazz piano to avant-garde techno

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Grenfell fire alarms firm in fraud probe over ‘defective’ work in Hackney

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 13:13
Grenfell Tower fire

Allegations relate to fire safety work carried out by Lakehouse between 2011 and 2014, including ‘incorrectly fitted’ alarms

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‘I found my East Berlin right here in East London’: Hackney Tours interview

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 13:01
“I think anything that brings people together to connect with each other and provokes questions and debate is a good thing”: Simon Cole (far right) with a hardy band of tourists. Photograph: Frank Da Silva

We meet Simon Cole who, as the man behind the ‘alternative experience walks’, knows his Hackney history and the lay of the land locally

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Garden variety: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s plans for their grounds this month

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 4 July 2017 at 10:13
A period of calm: The Geffrye Museum period gardens in summer. Photograph: Mandy Williams

The front and period gardens of Hoxton’s Geffrye Museum will be as busy as ever during next year’s renovation. Ahead of that, we look at what’s happening there this month

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London Fields Brewery snapped up by Carlsberg ahead of founder’s fraud trial

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 July 2017 at 17:33
London Fields Brewery. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

Julian Whiteway-Wilkinson denies charges of tax evasion and is set for court appearance this month

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Take the spear – Gillian Riley on asparagus and other shoots ‘n’ buds

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 July 2017 at 14:19
'Fat spears': detail from a Caravaggio still life, featuring asparagus and some escargot

You may get in trouble pinching someone’s asparagus, but perhaps wild Hackney borage will take your fancy? Our resident food historian focuses in on this genre of edible greenery in her latest piece for us, featuring a recipe for a very non-traditional – but incredible – risotto

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People’s Parking Bay founder urges council to reverse removal threat

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 July 2017 at 12:56

Brenda Puech’s parking space garden could be driven out following complaint from car owner

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Homerton Hospital’s surprising commitment to art continues – with a little bit of politics

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 July 2017 at 11:41
Therapeutic: a view of Homerton's art room

We meet Shaun Caton, the man in charge of Homerton Hospital’s exhibitions (including latest Underbelly Britain) as well as its huge art collection and groundbreaking creative therapies

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Swift exit: is Hackney Council missing a big opportunity by exiling this most high-flying of birds?

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 30 June 2017 at 13:31
Hamish Burnett (far-right) and supporters gathered outside e Star by Hackney Downs pub - which has swift boxes in situ. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Their aerial displays above Hackney’s skies thrill many, but campaigners such as Hamish Burnett are concerned that they will find nowhere to nest in the borough’s increasingly renovated old and new buildings, as he explains in this comment piece

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Titbits – council fiddles with freesheet as fire safety response put on ice

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 30 June 2017 at 11:53
Titbits bird

Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough

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