Hints and tips:
...If I’m doing something in town or in west London, I’ll walk there from Hackney. The best bit of advice I ever received is “Go to bed.” For many reasons! Just go to bed....
...Two London boroughs, Hackney and Tower Hamlets, have already stopped providing burials in their boroughs altogether....
...There will be five mayoral seats in play including Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets in the capital....
...At a nearby table, post-punk electronic musician Julie Campbell, who performs as Lonelady, is having tea with techno DJ Graham Dunning. Both have made themselves at home here....
...We have Julie Mehretu, Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas....
...Julie Ann Morrison, managing director of Bulgari UK, which is sponsoring the exhibition, says the company’s history is reflected in the exhibition....
...The large lounge is wallpapered with a bold print from hip east London brand House of Hackney, and features seats hanging from the ceiling by chains....
...Jermaine, a 17-year-old who joked that he was “busy” in Hackney this week, said: “The police don’t like black kids. But they have a problem with all urban youth. All youth. White, black, whatever.”...
...James Joyce’s Ulysses (Penguin), and Iain Sinclair’s Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report (Hamish Hamilton), two fat books I began on my last holiday and must finish....
...Julie Walters, actress. Helen Weir, group finance director, Lloyds TSB, the bank. Philip Williamson, former chief executive, Nationwide Building Society....
...Plot-holders such as Reg Hawkins and Julie Sumner are not to be left empty-handed....
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