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Dalston plaque to honour Four Aces club founder Newton Dunbar

The plaque will be unveiled at Hackney Archives on 24 October and then installed on Collins Tower, where the club once stood

Author: Hackney Citizen

Dalston plaque to honour Four Aces club founder Newton Dunbar

Veteran actor Greg Hicks climbs Ibsen’s tower at the Arcola

The RSC favourite on ageing, wrestling with God, and why Hilde is no victim

Author: Hackney Citizen

Veteran actor Greg Hicks climbs Ibsen’s tower at the Arcola

Curve Garden friendship brings a lost 1963 song to life

Rediscovered while tidying the house after his wife’s death, Justin Lewis's track reached a singer championed by Elton John

Author: Ellie Waterhouse

Curve Garden friendship brings a lost 1963 song to life

Ridley Road Shopping Village traders bid for community asset status

Traders have held out at the Dalston shopping hall since March, working without lights after the landlord cut the power

Author: Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter

Photograph of traders at Ridley Road Market in Hackney have been protesting the closure of the indoor market

Dalston dad launches app to find pubs with playgrounds

Alastair Duncan says playgrounds signal to children "that this is a space for them too"

Author: Elspeth Rees

Dalston dad launches app to find pubs with playgrounds

Dalston by-election candidates announced

A little more than seven weeks after the local elections, residents of this ward will be heading to the polls to cast their votes once again

Author: Hackney Citizen

Green party councillor quits straight after election victory following breach of local government rules

James Tilden was elected to represent Hackney Central ward with 1,681 votes

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney chief executive Dawn Carter-McDonald declares the results for Hackney Central ward on Friday 8 May 2026

Local elections 2026: Green party wins majority of seats on Hackney Council

The Greens have swept to victory, winning 42 of the council's 57 seats

Author: Hackney Citizen

RIO FOREVER: A testament to independent cinema

The Rio celebrates 50 years of community-run cinema

Author: Julia Silverberg

'Fuck/F**K Yeah': Joy and resilience at The Divine

Two and a half years into running The Divine on Stoke Newington Road, co-founder John Sizzle (alongside longtime business partner Jonny Woo) is characteristically undaunted - even as the hospitality

Author: Hackney Citizen

Drag performers stand in the stairwell of the club.

Ridley Road Shopping Village traders win reprieve after protesters block private security

The standoff marks the latest chapter in a nine-year battle between offshore developers Larochette and Ridley Road vendors

Author: Gabriel MacArthur

Ridley Road Shopping Village traders win reprieve after protesters block private security

'The destruction of our livelihoods' - Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as 'evictions' loom

Traders told to leave by 31 March as their landlord has declined to renew their tenancies

Author: James Barnes

Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV