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Government must publish air pollution plan after fight by Hackney lawyers ClientEarth

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 28 April 2017 at 11:37
ClientEarth supporters and the Green Party's Caroline Russell outside court last year. Photograph: ClientEarth

Ministers wanted to delay publication but High Court rules against them

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Groove is in the harp: Hackney-based string plucker to play Well Street venue next month

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 17:21
Harping on: Fraya Thomsen and her Celtic harp

Fraya Thomsen, harpist and composer of Gaelic music, will take the stage at the NuDawn event space on 4 May

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General Election 2017: Green Party announces Hackney candidates

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 17:01
Alistair Binnie-Lubbock with Caroline Lucas

Alastair Binnie-Lubbock to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Rebecca Johnson in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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‘Government’s free schools policy unsustainable’, warns Hackney MP

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 14:19
Meg Hillier

Report by cross-party committee of MPs led by Meg Hillier slams Department for Education’s ‘incoherent’ use of funding

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Bring on the artichokes! Gillian Riley on Caravaggio, veg and violence

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 12:40
Detail from Giovanna Garzoni's Artichokes in a Chinese dish with rose and strawberries (c. 1650)

In her latest column, our resident food and art historian imagines the painter and GBH enthusiast storming through Hackney

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General Election 2017: Liberal Democrats reveal Hackney candidates

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 27 April 2017 at 11:12
Joe Richards

Joe Richards is to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Dave Raval in Hackney South and Shoreditch

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The former homeless man hoping to stand for Parliament

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 17:51
Hugo Sugg

Hugo Sugg, who spent three months sofa-surfing after a rough break-up, wants to run as an independent in Hackney in June’s general election

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Finsbury Park residents up in arms over plans to destroy Victorian houses

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 12:58
Wilberforce Road residents

Developer Rainbow Properties wants to tear down row of period homes to make way for flats

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New phone app to gift locals a “poetic satnav” of Hackney and its history

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 26 April 2017 at 10:32
"Magical": the splash screen of a hackney autobiography's website, with illustrations by Joanna Layla

a hackney autobiography, created by social enterprise On The Record, uses the oral history, music and GPS technology to create spellbinding ‘audio tours’

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Free concert organised by Speaker to raise money for the borough’s homeless and migrants

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 25 April 2017 at 17:11
Fight fire with choir: refugee group Woven Gold. Photograph: Hackney Council

Choirs, rock musicians and a Turkish saz ensemble among those coming together for ‘Hackney in Harmony’ at St John of Jerusalem Church on 6 May

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‘Darkness to descend’ on Eastern Curve Garden as nine-storey tower threat looms

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 25 April 2017 at 15:51
Young couple in Eastern Curve Garden

Community blog raises concerns over redevelopment plans for neighbouring Thames House

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Mayor urges residents to get involved in Hackney housing strategy

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 25 April 2017 at 12:08

Town Hall consulting on plans to tackle rogue landlords and build more homes, but local renters’ group says proposals could be ‘braver’

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High heels row: Government rejects Hackney campaigner’s demand for law change

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 24 April 2017 at 15:44
Nicola Thorp

Local actor sent home from work for refusing to switch shoes calls Whitehall’s response to dress code inquiry a ‘cop-out’

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Mangle acid attack: Arthur Collins arrested and charged

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 24 April 2017 at 10:41
Arthur Collins

Collins, 24, and Andre Phoenix, 21, to appear in court today in connection with incident in Hackney which has left two people blind in one eye

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Field Day: commemorative “cat beer” readied by Five Points, Dinerama celebration planned

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 21 April 2017 at 19:46
Hair of the cat: a can of Field Day Citrus Pale Ale

Five Points’ Field Day Citrus Pale Ale will be in abundance at the Victoria Park music festival on 3 June

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Mangle ‘acid attack’: second victim goes blind in one eye as police make arrest

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 21 April 2017 at 17:11
Arthur Collins

Detectives continue to hunt Arthur Collins and appeal for information about ‘awful incident’ in Hackney

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East End exhibitions – five of the best for May

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 20 April 2017 at 16:17
Detail from James Pyman's The Owl in Daylight (2013). Image: PEER Gallery

Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features recycled oils, Alice Neel, and a pair of shows based around identity and the self

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Victim blinded in one eye after Mangle ‘acid attack’ as woman arrested in police raids

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 20 April 2017 at 15:50
Arthur Collins

The Met searched three Hertfordshire addresses today hunting for Arthur Collins

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Hundreds of Hackney police officers wear body cameras for the first time to ‘reassure community’

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 20 April 2017 at 13:49

500 body worn video cameras could help fight crime, says the Met

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General Election 2017: Hackney MP Diane Abbott predicts an ‘unpleasant’ campaign – but says Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour can win

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 13:37
Calling for more new homes: Diane Abbott MP

MP for pro-Remain Hackney North says Labour’s Brexit will ‘protect living standards’

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