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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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Whitehall ‘passing the buck’ on illegal air pollution, say Hackney lawyers

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 14:10
ClientEarth supporters and the Green Party's Caroline Russell outside court last year. Photograph: ClientEarth

ClientEarth blasts government’s latest air quality action plan, released by ministers on Friday after failed legal bid to delay publication

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This Beautiful Future, The Yard, theatre review – love during wartime

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 12:25
Bradley Hall as Otto & Hannah Millward as Elodie in This Beautiful Future. Photograph: Richard Lakos

The latest production at The Yard, This Beautiful Future, is “a tale of love and war” set in occupied France, 1944

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General Election 2017: Conservatives announce Hackney candidates

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 8 May 2017 at 11:20
Amy Gray.

Amy Gray to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Luke Parker in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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Idris Elba scours Hackney for paid extras to appear in new film

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 6 May 2017 at 14:30
Local lad: actor Idris Alba at a recent Ebola conference. Photograph: Jessica Lea/DFID via Wikimedia Commons

The picture will centre on the borough’s African Caribbean community in the eighties

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General Election 2017: Conservatives yet to select candidates for Hackney seats

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 14:13
Hackney Town Hall

Party finished second in both constituencies in 2015

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General Election 2017: Labour party reselects Diane Abbott and Meg Hillier

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 13:57
Diane Abbott MP

Abbott to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Hillier in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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Grass roots: the local gardening group with big plans for Hackney Downs

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 13:34
Garden state: Hackney Community Gardeners are proposing to rejuvenate Hackney Downs Park. Photograph: Andrew Barnes

Overgrown bowling green could be jettisoned for a host of new features if Hackney Community Gardeners get their way

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Titbits – upstairs, downstairs with the Greens and a skeleton-staffed boozer

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 May 2017 at 11:01
Titbits bird

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

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