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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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Wanted: Towie star Ferne McCann’s boyfriend Arthur Collins over Mangle ‘acid attack’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 19 April 2017 at 12:20
Arthur Collins

Police manhunt launched over 20 burns injuries at London Fields nightclub

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Barbican’s Sound Unbound weekender set to give classical music a festival feel

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 16:47
Crash the party: a cymbal-ic scene from the 2015 event. Photograph: Mark Allan

The event running 29-30 April will feature Anna Meredith, Chilly Gonzales, the London Symphony Orchestra and more

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Supreme Court grants appeal in Sam Hallam’s fight for compensation

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 15:19
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Court will review whether earlier ruling breaches ECHR on presumption of innocence

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Mangle ‘acid attack’: Arrest warrant served in Hertfordshire leading to unrelated arrests for guns and drugs

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 13:53

Met police confirms arrest warrant issued after London Fields incident

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Young Ideal-ists: Capel Manor student grabs gold in gardening contest

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 April 2017 at 10:42
Horticultural flair: the winning gardeners

A student from Capel Manor College has won big in the Ideal Home Show’s Young Gardeners of the Year competition

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Village Underground lodges plans to turn old ABC cinema into arts venue

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 13 April 2017 at 17:06
Easy as ABC: the venue as it looked in 1963 (left) and how it looks now (right).

Group addresses concerns over future of existing tenants as consultation on Hackney Arts Centre nears end

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Putting in a Shift – ideas from the public sought for new canalside community and business hub

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 13 April 2017 at 13:16
Quay to the city: Philippe Castaing of MakeShift. Photograph: Hackney Citizen.

Make Shift’s efforts to ‘transform underused urban space’ are currently being applied to Clarnico Quay, a disused site in between the Olympic Park and Hackney Wick

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Woodberry Wetlands’ spring line-up revealed

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 13 April 2017 at 11:52
Stoke Newington East Reservoir woodberry wetlands

Beekeeping, bat-tracking and outdoor yoga on the menu as Hackney nature reserve celebrates its first birthday

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The big unlock: a look at the Geffrye Museum’s development plans

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 19:04
Geffrye Director Sonia Solicari in her office. Photograph: Hackney Citizen

Director Sonia Solicari chatted to the Citizen about the Museum of the Home’s upcoming new basement level, reading rooms, learning pavilion and more

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Glaze craze: new hub shows that ceramics trend doesn’t have feet of clay

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 14:48
Clay treasures at Turning Earth E10. Photograph: Arthur Rummel

The popularity of Turning Earth’s new E10 studio is just another example of the growing number of us who are drawn to the potter’s wheel

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Kings Group interview: the borough is the bee’s knees

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 12:34
Karl Knipe. Photograph: Kings Group.

In the second of our features on estate agents in the borough, we talk to co-founder Karl Knipe on buying and renting in a tough market

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Brexit passport contest: ‘Poetic and powerful’ winner revealed

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 12 April 2017 at 11:25
Ian Macfarlane's winning design

London-based artist triumphs with ‘ambiguous’ fading design

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Liberal Democrat activist ‘knocks out’ UKIP MEP in Brexit-charged ‘chessboxing’ match

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 17:10
Dominant: Lib Dem Toby White lands a blow. Photograph: London Chessboxing

York Hall hosted the political bout of sport that alternates chess and pugilism as a test of mental and physical strength

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Diane Abbott MP: ‘The only real solution to the housing crisis’

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 14:43
Calling for more new homes: Diane Abbott MP

The MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington sets out what should be done to tackle homelessness and the lack of genuinely affordable housing

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