Leader: Buitekant and the Olympic beast
Protestors occupying Leyton Marsh are taking a stand to protect Metropolitan Open Land
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Olympic Torch route through Hackney announced
The One Hackney 2012 Festival will mark the Olympic Flame’s journey through the borough on Saturday 21 July
Olympics expansion on Hackney Marshes ‘stifling’ local sports clubs and ‘vandalising’ land
Critics condemn Olympics as waste of money better spent on projects of real and lasting value to Hackney residents and the local environment
Olympics synchronised swimming fans left high and dry
Swim fans asked to swap events as Olympics organisers admit 10,000 tickets oversold
Houseboaters being ‘forced out’ of Olympics area
River Lea residents claim they are being priced out and uprooted from their community by British Waterways
Olympics handball thrills Hackney kids
A lucky few have become the first in the world to sample the 2012 Olympics site
Hackney school students bag Olympics jobs
Two hundred Hackney students working at Olympics to be paid London Living Wage after help from community campaign group
Hackney to be twinned with Scarborough for Olympic events
The borough is partnering with a North Yorkshire seaside town for a series of cultural and sporting activities
Young, gifted and back
Kids are coming back to sport as Olympics organisers target couch potato youngsters with enticing outdoor events aimed at reversing negative associations with regimented PE lessons
Hackney Council makes £27k Olympics tickets bid
The Town Hall is spending more than any other London borough, according to the latest figures
‘RUN’ sculpture to be erected at Olympic Handball Arena in Hackney Wick
A glass and steel public artwork by internationally-renowned artist Monica Bonvicini will be installed in the Olympic Park next year
London 2012 Games set to miss green targets
The Olympic Delivery Authority fails to honour key promises to make the Olympics as sustainable as possible
Sign up now for London 2012 tickets – urges Hackney Olympic athlete Phillips Idowu
The Hackney-born triple jumper says winning in front of a home crowd next year will be a unique experience
Hackney Marshes – more than meets the eye
Local residents’ views about what should happen to this popular green space in the face of ‘area masterplans’, Olympic Games developments and the Legacy process
Artists and architects Assemble to create Folly for a Flyover
The winners of the CREATE11 Art Award announced today are to involve local people in the making of a public art commission in the borough
