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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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Dalston in the 80s by Andrew Holligan, book review: “bursting with culture and steeped in challenge”

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 11:29
“Two older lads on the razz”: detail from Dalston in the 80s. Photograph: Andrew Holligan.

This collection of black and white photography nonetheless depicts “life in its many colours” with a personal, diary-like feel

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New wildlife-friendly reedbed coming to Clapton

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 April 2017 at 17:19
Thames21's Ben Fenton

Waterways charity Thames21 announces results of public poll to pick locations

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Hackney Council to launch ‘innovative’ house-building company

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 April 2017 at 13:45
Philip Glanville.

Have your say on the Town Hall’s new housing strategy, which it says ‘could enable more affordable homes to be built’ across the borough

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The Plague, Arcola Theatre, review: an incisive adaptation of Camus’ classic

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 10 April 2017 at 11:44
Timely: The Plague runs at the Arcola until 6 May. Photograph: Arcola Theatre.

Morgana Edwards took her seat for a sharp, direct staging of the classic novel which, unfortunately, could not be more timely

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Player 2: Press Start: a look at two new, local video game ventures

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 April 2017 at 18:35
Multiplayer: a previous GamePad. Photograph: maya mada.

Hackney is set to get button-bashing all over again with the arrival of GamePad and Four Quarters East

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Leader – Complex issue of homeless non-UK nationals

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 April 2017 at 14:38
HC Crest

Accusations of charities colluding with the government have brought the topic to the surface once more, but the waters of opinion remain muddied

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