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Obese drinkers face 'double hit' 13 Mar 2010 | 12:09 am
Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease compared with those who are slimmer, experts warn.
Youth charged over collapse death 12 Mar 2010 | 11:59 pm
An 18-year-old is charged with the harassment of a man who collapsed and died outside his Greater Manchester home.
Teenager gets UK Eurovision vote 12 Mar 2010 | 11:08 pm
A teenager from Essex is chosen to represent the UK in this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo.
BNP rules judged 'discriminatory' 12 Mar 2010 | 11:03 pm
The British National Party is forced to rewrite its membership rules again after a court rules them discriminatory.
Samantha Cameron speaks of Tory leader's domestic skills 12 Mar 2010 | 10:25 pm
Samantha Cameron speaks publicly for the first time of her relationship with the Conservative leader.
Items removed as city alert ends 12 Mar 2010 | 10:24 pm
A security alert in Armagh has ended and a number of items have been removed for examination, the police say.
'Healer' fined for cancer adverts 12 Mar 2010 | 9:46 pm
A man describing himself as an "international healer" pleads guilty to offences under the Cancer Act.
Wigan bounce back from defeat 12 Mar 2010 | 9:43 pm
Super League leaders Wigan bounce back from their first defeat to run eight tries past Hull FC at the DW Stadium.
Mother 'murdered' after night out 12 Mar 2010 | 9:41 pm
A mother-of-three whose body was found in undergrowth in Dundee after a night out was murdered, police confirm.
Vauxhall gets UK loans guarantee 12 Mar 2010 | 8:22 pm
The UK announces a 300m-euro (£270m) loan guarantee for Vauxhall and Opel, the European arm of General Motors.

What's On - Update

Church Street two-way again

At last, the one-way traffic diversion on Church Street is due to be removed at the end of this week (12 March).

Local MP criticises Olympic legacy

Stoke Newington's MP argues that the forthcoming Olympic Games will benefit incoming wealthy people and businesses to the detriment of the poorer and more marginalized residents of this borough. And she is almost certainly right, according to recent research.

Stokey websites

Every time you visit the internet it appears that there is another blog or website devoted to Stoke Newington life. As a rule, good luck to them.

Dalston Lane closed

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'.

Fitness for free

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.

Ghostsigns Preserved

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.

Clissold Park and House Restoration

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.

Hackney Winter Night Shelter Volunteers

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.

Dissent and Anarchy in Stokey

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.

London Overground stations close

London Overground, North London line as was, has shut four Hackney stations - Dalston Kingsland, Hackney Central, Homerton and Hackney Wick - for engineering works, and they will not re-open until 31 May

Clapton Library open again

The extensively refurbished and restored Clapton Library, located at the eastern end of Northwold Road, re-opened on 15 February and will have its formal opening at a public event on Monday 22 February.

100 years of Hackney unemployed

In February 1910, Winston Churchill visited Hackney's first ever Labour Exchange. To coincide with this anniversary, Hackney Museum is hosting a commemorative exhibition.

LGBT History Month

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) History Month is being held throughout the UK and Ireland during February.

Assembly Rooms

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.

Jules Pipe opens the New Town Hall

Dalston Masterplan

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.

Where's the money going?

Hackney residents are being invited to comment online on the Mayor of Hackney's 2010/11 budget proposals, including a 'record-breaking fifth Council Tax freeze with no cuts to frontline services', in the words of the Council. N16mag.com has little comment to make at this point until we can get our hands on more detailed information, and what follows below is largely the Council's press release.

Conservation areas

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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