It’s official: Mayor thought author ‘too controversial’ for library
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Read MoreBrown gold
It’s time to get your bulbs planted in time to flower next spring
Read MoreTo the final whistle
Hackney Women’s Football Club has always been ahead of the game
Read MoreAt home with Iain Sinclair
The author and psychogeographer talks to Peter Jones about Hackney and his forthcoming book
Read MoreNo critics please, this is Hackney
“Publish and be damned!” (Duke of Wellington, c.1825): dissenting voices are vital to democracy
Read MoreComing in from the cold at the Hackney Winter Night Shelter
The Hackney Winter Night Shelter provides a warm welcome for its seasonal guests
Read MoreFestive puddin’ and pie
Sugar and spice and all things nice – that’s what Christmas puds are made of. Well, these days at least
Read MoreClapton’s community pubs
In the first of a number of tours of Hackney’s public houses, Matt Hanley searches out Clapton’s friendliest watering holes
Read MoreA Hackney Fantazy
Fantazia are a multicultural eight-piece group of minstrels, who describe themselves as 21st century roots music from Algeria, via Hackney
Read MoreCome take my hand
As Ben Locker puts his Stamford Hill home up for sale, he looks back on a ten-year love affair with his patch of East London
Read MoreThe brighter the light, the darker the shadow
Surgical bandages, men in bikinis and Ancient Greek: these are some of the ideas that are being bandied around a table by a group of artists
Read MoreThe faces of Church Street
Photographer Richard Nolan-Neylan presents ‘The Face of Church Street’, featuring portraits of small business owners in Stoke Newington
Read MoreMP calls on healthcare body to listen to “critical voices”
An MP has criticised a healthcare body after it emerged it was refusing to investigate concerns about its TB services
Read MoreCausing a scene – 6 Day Riot
Matt Hanley catches lead singer and songwriter Tamara Schlesinger before the band go supersonic
Read MoreGentrification – a neighbourhood ‘grey area’?
Clearly there are winners and losers in a changing neighbourhood, but what can be done to ensure we end up with the kind of community we want to live in?
Read MoreGP surgeries – what’s happening
“Any change in premises will not involve somebody having to lose their GP”
Read MoreSpirit loses fight to stay
Spirit has lost his fight to stay at 71 Broadway Market – his shop and home since 1993
Read MoreOlympic follies, fools’ gold?
Why Hackney businesses are struggling to win Olympic contracts
Read MoreWhose green? Whose turf? Whose space?
Another visit to Butterfield Green
Read MoreDalston’s fried and tested
Kevin Clark searches out Dalston’s finest fried. All appraisals have been made on the basis of a typical veggie breakfast
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