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‘Ridiculous’: Council blocks juice bar from putting tables outside due to ‘encroachment’ on nearby park

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 11 September 2025 at 13:28

Owner of Faith in Nature’s Juices says he doesn’t understand why tables and chairs stretching five metres are not in line with council policy

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Morning Lane campaigners accuse council of consultation ‘con job’ in scathing report

By Max Eckersley | Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 09:34

Morning Lane People’s Space urges Town Hall to ‘do better’, with ‘future of the town centre at stake’

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Kokin, Stratford, food review: ‘So romantic, so artfully curated’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 17:30

Learn from me though, put your best heels on, clunk on your baubles and move money over from your savings (you’ll need a fair wad)

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Titbits – Lording it up

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 5 September 2025 at 17:27
Titbits bird

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

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Blinds, Hackney Road, food review: ‘Well-realised wine, disappointing food’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 12:33

This natural wine bar fulfils its main brief, but the food feels like an afterthought

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Implaqueable women – The Hackney Society celebrates those turned down for ‘not being famous enough’

By Catriona Harrison | Friday 5 September 2025 at 12:26
Green plaque

‘It’s not that they weren’t doing anything – it’s that it wasn’t deemed important enough to record’

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Bad Boy Pizzeria, Bethnal Green, food review: ‘One for the die-hard pie fans’

By Gabriel Wilding | Friday 5 September 2025 at 11:31

The New York-style restaurant is proof that the ‘appetite for pies with zippy, cartoonish branding has not abated’

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Greens welcome Met’s removal of 371 school officers – but others brand it ‘most catastrophic decision in keeping children safe’

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 4 September 2025 at 13:42
Dalston councillor Zoë Garbett

Surveys revealed that 93 per cent of Londoners supported the presence of Safer Schools Officers in school buildings

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London Mayor joins Green party in calling for London arms fair to be scrapped

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 21:44
Green party London Assembly Members and councillors protest against DSEI arms fair

Sadiq Khan ‘is appalled that the capital is being used as a marketplace for those who wish to trade in weapons’

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Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Escape the headlines you will not’

By Sarah Birch | Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 10:20

The latest pairing of modern art with the Italian sculptor’s work explores ‘the various ways the human form can come to harm’

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Man who killed partner in car then confessed to brother is detained under Mental Health Act

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 1 September 2025 at 22:39
Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

Gogoa Lois Tape was sentenced to a hospital order for the manslaughter of Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

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London’s overheating crisis: Calls for Sadiq Khan to rethink new-build air conditioning

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 1 September 2025 at 17:23

City Hall has told developers to prioritise ‘passive ventilation’ and avoid air conditioning unless ‘unavoidable’

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Betrayal in Berlin, Michael Shew, book review: ‘Full-throttle narrative’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 29 August 2025 at 10:15

The local author’s new thriller sees a scientist ‘torn between love and defence of the realm’

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‘Disappointed’: Residents and community groups condemn latest Woodberry Down masterplan

By Catriona Harrison | Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 16:56

Loss of social homes and biodiversity among complaints as new proposals set to be put in front of councillors

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‘One of life’s true optimists’: Film about popular local rabbi to be screened at Abney Park

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 12:34
Rabbi Gluck

How to Get On with Everybody, a portrait of Rabbi Herschel Gluck, will be shown on 9 September – followed by a Q&A with the man himself

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On the Boardwalk, Martin Sherman, book review: ‘Deliciously droll’

By Sarah Birch | Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 16:37

The playwright’s ‘intensely personal’ memoir focuses on the years before he found fame

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Concerns raised over progress of controversial Edmonton incinerator

By Sebastian Mann, Local Democracy Reporter | Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 09:44

Campaigners now believe the £1.5bn incinerator will ‘never be built’

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Redundancies at Sutton House could have ‘dramatic impact’, warns heritage group

By Catriona Harrison | Friday 22 August 2025 at 17:19
"A kingdom of her own in Hackney": Sutton House. Image: Wikimedia Commons

Hackney Society alarmed over plans, which National Trust says are still under consultation

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Pas de Chats? How Hackney’s unsung Arkestra inspired a mural for the ages

By Max Finkel | Friday 22 August 2025 at 11:22

Chats Palace Arkestra wanted an artistic experiment for the community, and four decades on, they got more than they bargained for

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Outsider Bodies: Experience Berlin’s DIY scene in your neighbour’s living room

By Julia Silverberg | Thursday 21 August 2025 at 17:15

More than 90 artists are set to deliver an ‘experiential showcase’ in Stoke Newington from next month

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