As we near the end of a tough year, the Hackney Citizen team wishes all our readers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans, supporters and subscribers a very merry Christmas. Stay safe.
We’ll be returning next week. In the meantime, enjoy some recent festive content along with a couple of stories from our archive, and please consider supporting some of the charities and projects that feature:
- Leader – Spirit of Christmas
- Reflections on 2020
- Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown, Charles Court Opera online, stage review
- Spread Eagle, Homerton, food review: ‘There can be roast without the ruthlessness’
- Winter Toy Appeal team ‘bowled over by people’s kindness’ as they reach record number of kids
- Eat Hackney Vegan Cookbook, Helena Smith: ‘A smorgasbord of food ideas suitable for everyone’
- Hackney home care firm launches festive appeal to ‘give a little cheer to seniors’
- The Little History of the East End, Dee Gordon, book review: ‘Ambitious and very readable’
- Hackney Winter Night Shelter secures temporary home to support rough sleepers
- Yuletide past in Hackney
- How to have a green Christmas
