Posts Tagged ‘hackney’
Outcry over plans to bulldoze ‘community pub’ London Tavern to build luxury flats
The 150-year-old pub is used by Irish and Traveller residents
Read MoreMan who ‘targeted and preyed on vulnerable women’ jailed for attempted rapes
Usman Tahir handed 12 year sentence for two separate attacks
Read MoreHostel takeover as young are priced out by rising rents
Inner city weekly rent has risen by £70 in the last five years
Read MorePlane Stupid activists on trial over ‘disruptive’ Heathrow protests
Two from Hackney among 13 accused of chaining themselves to a runway at Heathrow in protest against the airport’s expansion
Read MorePolice say ‘take care after dark’ over three linked sexual assaults in Hackney
Officers’ call for witnesses in hunt for man suspected of three assaults
Read MoreHow two authors attempted to exhaust a place in London
Two authors spent a weekend in a Hackney square and wrote down everything they saw there in homage to an experiment by French writer Georges Perec
Read MoreThe school of hard knocks
At Hackney’s Boxing Academy, last-chance pupils are punching their way to a brighter future
Read MoreBoy Dunne good: Captain of Hackney deaf team on his proudest moment
Manor House based St John’s FC captain Darren Dunne on his team’s recent success
Read MoreHinterland: ode to a lost generation
First time filmmaker Harry Macqueen scooped a Raindance nomination with Hinterland, a romantic road movie about navigating through your late twenties
Read MoreHackney Autobiography project launched to remember Centerprise
Bookshop, cultural centre and community publisher Centerprise will be remembered in a lottery-funded oral history project
Read MoreHackney teenager arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences
Arrest of 18-year-old woman linked to previous arrest of man in Hackney in October
Read MoreHackney in bottom ten London boroughs for confidence in police
Neighbourhood comparison reveals residents living in the north-east area of the borough have lowest confidence in police
Read MoreDerelict Homerton pub to become second ‘pocket home’ development
The Deuragon Arms will be demolished to make way for 29 one-bedroom microflats aimed at the borough’s ‘city-makers’
Read MoreHackney teenage boy missing for a fortnight
Police concerned for the welfare of 16 year-old Keiarani Hamilton-Hughes from Victoria Park
Read MoreProtesters to rally in Hackney over US trade deal
National day of action against Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a free trade deal between Europe and the USA
Read MoreChildcare provision in Hackney slammed as ‘insufficient’
A new report by the Family and Childcare Trust reveals a lack of quality childcare facilities in Hackney
Read MoreHackney UTC: A fragile flagship
London’s first University Technical College will close its doors after two years due to lack of student desire to study there
Read MorePeople’s March for the NHS to pass through Hackney
The final day of a 300-mile protest march to Westminster will pass through Hackney and stop for lunch in Clissold Park this Saturday
Read MoreCare worker sought by Hackney police after disabled child is attacked
A woman is accused of hitting four year-old child leaving him with two bruises
Read MoreTwo teenagers arrested after Hackney murder
Police appeal for information following stabbing on Frampton Park Road
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