Hackney Post

21/03/2024

A musician lost of £25’000 worth of musical instruments in Hackney.

No fear, Post reporter is on the case. Read about the case here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/pros-oboe-gone-with-the-woodwind/ 🎵🔗

Have you ever lost something dear?

21/03/2024

This is now a bollard stan account.

Hackney is celebrating its oldest traffic safety system. Thank you for your service old friend🫡

Find it the story here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/calls-to-commemorate-bollards-50th-birthday-with-bench/

21/03/2024

Excited residents will gather this weekend to celebrate the Jewish festival of Purim.

Read the story here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/hackney-looks-forward-to-weekends-purim-celebrations/

21/03/2024

A popular West London record store is coming to Hackney.

Find out more about Next Door Records’ newest offering in your neighbourhood here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/top-shepherds-bush-record-store-to-come-to-stoke-newington/

20/03/2024

Do you belong with the altos? Take a trip with to Hackney’s sea shanty choir. 🐟🐳

For the story, click the link for more: https://hackneypost.co.uk/singing-for-my-supper-trying-hackneys-sea-shanty-choir/

20/03/2024

Stall holders speak out on changes to this year’s instalment of the Hackney Carnival. reports.

Find out what they think here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/road-market-divided-over-carnival-route/ 🔗🥬

20/03/2024

We’re spilling the tea on the best food spots in Hackney. Get ready for your ultimate guide to the neighbourhood’s most hyped food spots.

and report. Find out more https://hackneypost.co.uk/up-to-the-hype-we-try-hackneys-hottest-food-spots/ 🍕✨

Let us know if you’ve tried any of these place!

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20/03/2024

After days of uncertainty in the neighbourhood, an arrest has been made in the crossbow attacks case.

Find out more at the link here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/man-arrested-after-shoreditch-crossbow-attacks/

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a mother and a young man were shot with a crossbow in Hackney.

19/03/2024

Film lovers were treated to a sneak preview of the forthcoming film The Sweet East, starring Jacob Elordi and breakout talent Talia Ryder, at a Hackney cinema last week. The film is set for full theatrical release in the UK on 29 March.

On Tuesday night at the Rio Cinema, cinephiles were invited to the screening and filmmakers’ Q&A of acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams’ directorial debut.

Read more here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/rio-cinema-hosts-star-studded-screening-of-jacob-elordi-film/

19/03/2024

Dog campaigners have successfully opposed Hackney Council’s plans to ensure dogs are kept on leads in Abney Park cemetery.

“We can breathe and enjoy Abney with respect and gratitude, as the much-loved community space and nature reserve that it is,” said campaigner Alexandra Hamit.

Read more here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/local-campaign-successfully-reverses-dogs-off-leads-ban-at-abney-park/

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19/03/2024

A Hackney vicar and anti-racist campaign group have thrown their support behind calls for the Church of England to increase reparations funding for its historical links to slavery.

Read more here: https://hackneypost.co.uk/dethroning-a-racist-legacy-vicar-and-anti-racist-group-back-cofe-reparations/

14/03/2024

“I bathed away my sins in a sweatbox” 😇

Community saunas are all the rage with Hackney Wick’s own baths seeing an influx of visitors. But do they hold restorative powers or is it just a phony fad? 🛀

Maya Machesney and Ben Lee have an almost religious experience finding out - read the full story through the link in the bio 🔗

14/03/2024

Legendary actress Judi Dench was spotted behind stalls at Ridley Road Market yesterday! 😮‍

Check out the full story through the link in our bio🔗

14/03/2024

Children in Hackney face a school exclusion rate that is 65% above the London average, recently released figures have shown.

May Rowland, coordinator of Hackney REP said: “Our young people are being systematically disadvantaged, discriminated against, and failed”.

Check out the full story through the link in our bio🔗

14/03/2024

Hackney Council has voted to permanently close four primary schools.

While the council argued the decision was made to balance declining pupil numbers and budgets, for many residents it posed questions about how the area is changing and what it says about its future.

Hackney Post asks what these closures mean for the Borough more widely - read more through the link in the bio. 🔗

14/03/2024

A photography exhibition titled 'Why are things this way?' features everyday scenes shot by six Hackney locals. 📷

Organised by , residents took photographs of their day-to-day lives to highlight how they have been affected by the cost-of-living crisis.

The exhibition can be found at the LSE Atrium on Houghton Street, and is open until Friday 12 April 2024.

Read all about the exhibition through the link in the bio 🔗

14/03/2024

Tom Hunter used to squat in abandoned buildings before becoming an award winning artist👨‍🎨

Now, his latest work can be found in the At Home in Hackney photography exhibition at the Hackney Museum. His six-foot-tall model of a tower block on the now demolished Holly Street housing estate is a "protest against the housing crisis".

Read the full story in the link in our bio🔗

14/03/2024

The council has announced its budget for the next financial year, which includes a sharp 4.99% hike in council tax against a background of cuts to local government, a rampant cost-of-living crisis and increased demand for services.

Check the full story out in our bio.