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The site contains detailed news, views and comment on what's going on in the area plus full listings on all the local shops and businesses; pubs, clubs and music venues; where to eat and what's on. We are currently in the process of building a comprehensive community, health and support section to the site.
We're also continuing to support Stoke Newington's great local magazine N16 by hosting permanent online copies of every back issue of N16.
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100 years of Hackney unemployed |
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In February 1910, Winston Churchill visited Hackney's first ever Labour Exchange. To coincide with this anniversary, Hackney Museum is hosting a commemorative exhibition.
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The roadworks and construction chaos currently affecting our little corner of north-east London - 'The Shire', as we Hobbit fans like to think of it - is being compounded by the closure of Dalston Lane until 12 February because of 'emergency utility works'.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) History Month is being held throughout the UK and Ireland during February.
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Approval for wind turbine |
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According to Hackney Council, residents have overwhelmingly said 'yes' to the idea of having a wind turbine on Hackney Marshes to generate green energy, with 87 per cent of respondents saying they were in favour of the proposal.
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Local MP attacks institutional racism |
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Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, has expressed concern about what she considers to be the government's failure to fight institutional racism in the workforce.
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We have written before about ghostsigns - these old, nostalgic and gradually fading adverts on the sides of buildings - which can be found across Stoke Newington and many other places in Britain.
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Clissold Park and House Restoration |
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The biggest transformation of Clissold Park in more than a century is about to begin following the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery Fund's (BLF) announcement of a £4.46m grant, with the total cost estimated at £8.9m.
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A little over a year ago Transition Town Stoke Newington consisted of a few people, meeting up in pubs and wondering what to do next. They now have over 300 people on their mailing list, and also official Transition status.
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Stoke Newington's Conservation Areas include Abney Park Cemetery, East and West Reservoirs on Green Lanes, Clissold Park and environs, Church Street and the High Street and the northern part of the high Street. Newington Green also has its own conservation area.
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The Hackney Empire is not going down without a fight.
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These are testing times, indeed, and time for a timely test-drive of the newly refurbished Stoke Newington Assembly Rooms - which are, of course, adorable - with locals Deirdre Cartwright and equally adorable girls, inviting the neighbours round for a Friday night hop at their new local on Friday 29 January.
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If you're unemployed, dejected, aimless or skint - or all of these (they tend to go together) - then forget about slouching off to your local JD Wetherspoons's (a fine chain of boozers, nevertheless) for an early pint. Or spending your morning feeling sorry for yourself in bed. It's not good for you. Try getting fit instead. For free.
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N16mag.com along with N16 Magazine were invited by Hackney Council on 22 January to take photographs of the interior of the splendidly redecorated and refurbished Stoke Newington Town Hall and Assembly Rooms on Church Street. On 4 February N16 Magazine interviewed Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe and Deputy Mayor Karen Alcock (picture below) about a number of local issues, including the Assembly Rooms and Town Hall, and the interview will be published in the next issue of the magazine, available across Stoke Newington and neighbouring areas on 6 March.
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On the east side of Clapton Common, between Craven Walk and Overlea Road, are two early 19th century detached villas, No 96 Clapton Common (formerly Stainforth House) and its neighbour no 98 (formerly The Woodlands).No 96 is locally listed and No 98 is Grade II listed. These two buildings are the last survivors of the villas which were built on the eastern and northern sides of Clapton Common in the Georgian era.
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Hackney Council has revealed its plans for what it describes as 'Hackney's two major town centres' (ie Hackney Central and Dalston, so where does this leave Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, Broadway Market?). The 'masterplans' are for the next fifteen years and are extremely detailed, so much so that we are simply here reproducing an edited version of the Council press release, along with website links to the documents themselves.
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Stoke Newington-based Movingeast is looking for young people interested in dance, and who are aged between 11 and 14 years, to apply for its free Centre for Advanced Training dancing course.
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Hackney Winter Night Shelter Volunteers |
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The Hackney Winter Night Shelter has been running for 15 years. It operates from a different church hall in the Borough each night of the week and is a stalwart of the raft of organisations providing much needed services to vulnerable people in the winter months.
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Dissent and Anarchy in Stokey |
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Four members of an IRA active service unit who waged a 14-month bombing campaign in the mid-1970s, leaving in their wake 40 explosions and 35 dead, lived in what was described as a 'bomb factory' in Stoke Newington's Milton Grove.
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