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FGM – a cruelty in our midst
Is talk of ending the practice of female genital mutilation just empty words?
Relief for Hackney parents but future looks bleak for school admissions
London needs 118,000 extra school places by 2016 claims new report
Ken Livingstone launches construction training academy in Stamford Hill
The former London mayor hopes construction training academy will help deliver jobs
Hackney teachers want the environment to stay on curriculum
Plans to put the freeze on climate change and environmental issues on the National Curriculum attract criticism
Education overload – will longer school hours help Hackney’s poorer students?
Michael Gove’s latest plan to lengthen the school day and shorten holidays receives a mixed reception in Hackney
Stay out of debt with free advice from Hackney CAB
Citizens Advice Bureau now offers a new Money Smart advice service for social housing tenants
Hackney schoolboy fatally stabbed on 16th birthday
Parents to bury their son along with unopened birthday card
New plans for high-rise flats on Kingsland High Street
Transport for London and developers try again with plans to build 106 flats in Dalston after previous application failed
Dangerous dog attack – Hackney Council failed to protect employee
Compensation agreed for traumatised man who was bitten by a pitbull whilst working for Hackney Council
The Look of Love – review
Steve Coogan is Soho sex king Paul Raymond, the porn baron who became one of Britain’s richest men
Geffrye Museum expansion plans thrown out by Hackney Council
Campaigners jubilant but director David Dewing speaks of “bitter disappointment”
Unprovoked attack in Birthdays bar – police appeal for witnesses
Man suffers fractured cheekbone after being hit with a glass in a popular Dalston bar
The Place Beyond the Pines – review
The new movie from Derek Cianfrance is a modern-day morality tale
The ‘taboo’ of atheism in black communities – Leo Igwe at Hackney Attic
Nigerian human rights campaigner tackles belief in witchcraft and speaks in favour of atheism during Hackney Attic talk
A Star is born by Hackney Downs
New pub opens at former Three Sisters premises on Queensdown Road