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Londonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
You can't blame the Queen for not visiting East London very often. You can't get the tube there from Buck House for starters, and since the Number 8 went 'bendy' the Corgis won't get on it. But this week she went to the remarkable length of flying to Istanbul to meet a group of teenagers from Hackney. To be fair, she was on a visit to Turkey anyway. But she spent the day meeting pupils from...
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Digital Spy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Madness will play their new album in full at the Hackney Empire next month
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ENGAGE - Forum (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
... were yesterday confronted with slogans such as "Jihad to Israel" and "Jihad to Tel Aviv". Hackney council is removing the graffiti, which consisted of 40 pieces of writing. David Greenwald, 20, who visits the Chasidey Belz Beth Hemedrash synagogue in Clapton Common, said the close-knit community was shocked. "This morning I went to synagogue to pray and saw the writing all over everywhere...
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The Long Eighteenth (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
As one of the governors of the city's hackney coaches, carts, and carriages, [Swift] enjoyed preferential treatment by the coachmen of Dublin, but this pleasure, along with his delight in evening walking, had to be curtailed because of dizziness. Swift nevertheless continued to regard the liberty of St Patrick’s (a precinct independent of the archbishop’s [...]
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
UK: A man who was stabbed to death in Oxford Street this week was facing charges of raping a 16-year-old girl and chemically burning her afterwards to hide the crime, it was revealed yesterday. The Crown Prosecution Service said Steven Bigby (22) from Hackney had also been due to stand trial in June over the stabbing of a man in north London in October 2006.
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This Is Stoke Newington (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Despairing at more Hackney teen-aged violence - and yet wondering if maybe, just maybe there might be some twisted justice in the world after all? Wondering if your home’s going to be repossessed or you're going to be able to put food on the table AND pay your bills? I can't fix it, but some people in [...]
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Slaminsky (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
That sounds like my local corner shop except all the Rastas round my way are elderly.And obviously I don't have pink sparkly things.To drink.
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Stan, you apparently can't distinguish "feckless" from its polar opposite. Joe Hackney, who is probably one of the finest, smartest and most honest men we've ever had the fortune to have in elected office in North Carolina, gave a straight answer instead of a dodge. He's absolutely right. If you don't want to hear a truthful answer, don't ask Joe a question.
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
then the public at large ought to be willing to pay for it....rather than foisting the cost onto some smaller segment of the population. Comments by Mr. Hackney quoted in our paper today indicate that because this is "an election year" there probably won't be any new taxes. So, I suppose worrying about their electability will take priority over both legitimate needs and equitable taxation....
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Right Angles (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Last week voters across North Carolina soundly defeated hikes in the land transfer tax and sales tax. At least one elected official — Orange County Commission Chairman Barry Jacobs — seems downright ticked off about it. Last week, Jacobs told WRAL TV that, “Nobody likes to lose, and nobody likes to lose to a bully.” He was lashing out at the real estate industry. However, House Speaker Joe Hackney...
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This Is Stoke Newington (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Right. While I’ve been too busy at work lately and unable to write at all, I have been stopping by my staple blogs. I do like to keep up with Cllr Akehurst of Hackney Labour and see he’s tagged me as follows: Pick up the nearest book Open to page 123 Find the fifth sentence Post the next three [...]
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Bryn's so called life (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
I thought that things seemed to have been a bit quiet in Hackney recently. Anyways just when you thought that Hackney was becoming safety central there is a little news story to break the lull. On Thursday a teenager was shot in London fields and two others stabbed. It hardly made the news though (I think because no-one died!!). You can read the story though in the Hackney Gazette....
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KIKO News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
A Globe man was killed in a traffic accident Tuesday evening at Hackney and Willow Streets. 49 year old Duane Flegge was struck by a truck after stepping into the roadway. The driver of the truck was not hurt. Investigation is continuing and no further details are available at this time.
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news rage uk | 05/07/2008
I was watching BBC news this morning and I became quite excited when they announced that they would be talking with Sir Alan Sugar about his views on "Broken Britain". Now the reason I was interested was because I know that this old boy from Hackney is hugely successful in making money. He is also a credible celebrity who has maintained a colourful "no nonsense " image in the media from his early...
