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'Not your typical high street' - residents express concern over new Aldi on Hackney Road

A group of locals have said they are 'extremely worried' about the plans

Author: Hackney Citizen

Blinds, Hackney Road, food review: 'Well-realised wine, disappointing food'

This natural wine bar fulfils its main brief, but the food feels like an afterthought

Author: Hackney Citizen

Blinds, Hackney Road, food review: 'Well-realised wine, disappointing food'

‘Often we just see the spine’: Hackney illustrator welcomes first customers to bookshop where the covers are turned up

After an ‘amazing’ crowdfunding effort, acclaimed artist David Ziggy Greene has opened Jam on Hackney Road

Author: Marion Weaver

‘Often we just see the spine’: Hackney illustrator welcomes first customers to bookshop where the covers are turned up

Hackney Road strip club’s licence in jeopardy after it ‘mistakenly lifted Covid restrictions too early’

Undercover inspectors witnessed multiple breaches at Ye Olde Axe last summer, including dances that were ‘too intimate’

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Hackney Road strip club’s licence in jeopardy after it ‘mistakenly lifted Covid restrictions too early’

Music’s not dead – how the Premises kept Hackney Road upbeat through the pandemic

Aerosol ‘bombs’ and live streams – the fabled recording studio had to get creative to stay open

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Music’s not dead – how the Premises kept Hackney Road upbeat through the pandemic

Morito – Vegan Monday, Hackney Road, food review: ‘No better place for a first-time vegan’

The tapas restaurant has just launched a weekly plant-based menu, and it is ‘delicious and unique’

Author: E. R. Ambler

Morito – Vegan Monday, Hackney Road, food review: ‘No better place for a first-time vegan’

Anna Laurini: Stillness Speaks, The Old Bank Vault, exhibition review: ‘Raw voluptuousness and urban chic’

The street artist’s solo show at the Hackney Road gallery features her signature faces with their ‘bold magenta lips and alluring eyes’

Author: Sarah Birch

Anna Laurini: Stillness Speaks, The Old Bank Vault, exhibition review: ‘Raw voluptuousness and urban chic’

Joiners Arms: community meetings announced as plans for new LGBTQI+ pub/hub take shape

Campaign group Friends of the Joiners Arms will solicit ideas for the dormant Hackney Road institution at two get-togethers in March

Author: Andrew Barnes

Joiners Arms will live on as an LGBTQI+ pub. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons

Joiners Arms campaigners celebrate ‘landmark’ ruling for iconic LGBT pub

‘Important victory for LGBT community’ as Tower Hamlets Council grants 25-year lease for replacement venue

Author: Hackney Citizen

Friends of the Joiners Arms campaigners. Photograph: FOTJA

Teen arrested after five acid attacks in 90 minutes

Sixteen-year-old in custody after spate of attacks last night which have left one victim with ‘life-changing injuries’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Legendary gay pub The Joiners Arms “back in business” with events on Hackney Road

Parties to be held at Ye Olde Ax club, opposite the original Joiners building, as campaigners fight for an LGBT+ hub in the derelict space that closed in 2015

Author: Hackney Citizen

Residents ‘relieved’ after derelict Mecca Bingo hall wins council reprieve

“We are glad that the decision to permit this damaging scheme has been deferred”

Author: Hackney Citizen