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Chatsworth Road: the frontline of Hackney’s gentrification

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 8 July 2012 at 12:22

Five years ago, it was one of London’s roughest areas. Then the middle classes moved in; galleries, cafes and a Sunday market followed – and prices shot up. But not everyone’s happy

Every parent’s worst nightmare: how ketamine killed our daughter

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 17 April 2011 at 10:22

Louise Cattell at the Lovebox music festival

Bright, popular, rebellious and creative, 21-year-old Louise Cattell had everything to live for. Then she made a fatal mistake. She took the party drug ketamine and was found dead in the bath by her flatmate. There are 125,000 other ketamine users in the UK. Louise’s parents want to make sure it never happens to any of them…