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...Meg Hillier, Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said some of her constituents were “living in the dark ages” and unable to work from home because of their broadband....
...She is Cherry Groce, mistakenly shot and paralysed by police officers in an incident sparking the 1985 Brixton riots....
...“Edinburgh has been on our radar for a while now,” says Rob Andrews, The Hoxton’s chief operating officer....
...“Saunas can be really straightforward when you keep the materials simple,” says Lewis Jenkinson, technical officer for the British Sauna Society....
...Typically, new stores have been positioned in trendy, slightly out-of-the-way neighbourhoods, such as on Broadway Market in Hackney, but a new strategy has put Aesop’s latest openings in more commercial...
...March 6 to June 28; further information and tickets here Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier direct Puccini’s tragedy about a geisha who falls in love with a US naval officer, with Kevin John Edusei conducting...
...In the 1990s and 2000s, London’s five-stars were seen as dreary backwaters, good only for elderly tourists to sit in dull corporate restaurants — the hipsters were all at warehouse parties in Hackney Wick...
...This segment of the house gives way to a playroom, overlooking the wildflower-filled front garden conceived by Garden Club London, a boot room, a cloakroom clad in House of Hackney’s Amaranth pink Artemis...
...They want to be midwives and builders and primary schoolteachers and make-up artists and police officers....
...Essentially, you know, there are 8,000 Conservative voters in my home constituency of Hackney and indeed 8,000 in my hometown Bow where I was born....
...But of course, it is also true to say that we find it easier to recruit secondary schoolteachers, GPs, firefighters and police officers in St Albans, Hackney or Manchester than we do in Don Valley, Cannock...
...Peter Wynne Rees, the former City of London Corporation’s chief planning officer, says he spent his time there “trying to put the place back into workplace”....
...All of them are now forged using discarded nitrous oxide canisters collected from around Hackney Wick. clementknives.com...
...Thomas Rowlandson’s “Exhibition Room, Somerset House” depicts a crowd of connoisseurs and flâneurs, dandies and officers, demure ladies and fat parsons, all hemmed in by a barrage of paintings, hung high...
...Jabez Lam, centre manager for Hackney Chinese Community Services, a charity in London that helps new arrivals, said local support groups thought that hundreds of schoolchildren might travel alone to the...
...One Friday afternoon, I went to the studios in Hackney, east London, where one of the most ambitious projects was being pulled together....
...“I was a kid from Jamaica who grew up in Hackney — a pole was a pole,” he says. It was as big a diversion as he could imagine from the course he had been walking in Hackney....
...The same day, officers investigating alleged drug-dealing offences made seven arrests after raids in Hackney....
...The writer is a barrister specialising in planning and public law On the Morland estate in Hackney, east London, children have spent lockdown staring at a brand new playground....
...Young officers from St James’s Palace stride with purpose along the avenues....
...The killing by police officers of George Floyd, and the protests that followed, have made all of us stop and think about race....
...Email your problem in confidence to money@ft.com Our next question: Having just sold my family home in Hackney, I have a lump sum of £50,000 that I would like to invest for the long term....
...She is black, her son mixed-race; the dim-witted officer handling the case — “handling” might be too generous — is white. Radios crackle with news of a traffic stop; have shots been fired?...
...After arriving at Wick Boards in Hackney, my eye is drawn immediately to the One Wheel XR, which unsurprisingly is a board with just one wheel....
...When I tested the electric scooter, I passed several police cars and officers on the streets and didn't turn any heads....
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