Posts Tagged ‘London 2012’
London 2012 Hackney Citizens’ Diary: Day 1
What’s been happening in Hackney on the first day of Olympic competition
Read MoreHackney business pulls anti-Olympics banner after pressure from top cop
Hackney police borough commander calls boss of Essex Flour & Grain Company over Justice for Victims of the Olympics protest sign
Read MoreBhopal: A Silent Picture – review
Human Rights Action Centre. Until Tuesday 31 July 2012
Read MoreLondon 2012 Hackney Citizens’ diary: Day 0
Residents give their impressions of life in our Olympic borough on the day the Games officially kick off
Read MoreLondon 2012 Hackney Citizens’ diary: Day -1
Residents give their impressions of life in our Olympic borough as the Games progress
Read MoreLondon 2012 Olympic diary: Share your Hackney stories
Do you have a story about the Olympics to share? Get in touch!
Read MoreHackney newsagent’s bunting falls foul of Olympic brand policing
Hackney Council enforcement officers accused of overzealous behaviour in bid to protect Olympic brands on the torch relay route
Read MoreLondon 2012: Olympic Torch comes to Hackney
Thousands line the streets to greet the Olympic Flame and celebrate at the One Hackney Festival
Read MoreLondon 2012: the Games and its discontents
Away from all the Olympics hype, there are many people who are less than excited about the Games and it presence in East London. Andrew Connelly looks into their reasons for objecting
Read MorePost-Games Olympic Park reopening will help create ‘sustainable neighbourhoods’
Legacy will help London ‘steer it out of recession and on to long term prosperity’ says Mayor Boris Johnson
Read MoreShoreditch residents slam Olympic ‘beer tent’
Hackney Council has given the thumbs-up to ‘Hackney House’, a marquee to ‘showcase’ the borough this summer
Read MoreFour arrested as Olympic protestors evicted from Leyton Marshes
Local campaign group Save Leyton Marshes says it will continue to challenge Olympic bosses over alleged breaches of planning regulations
Read MoreOlympic Torch route through Hackney announced
The One Hackney 2012 Festival will mark the Olympic Flame’s journey through the borough on Saturday 21 July
Read MoreOlympic Village social housing plans revealed
Six boroughs to get 107 homes between them for social housing in the post-Games ‘East Village’
Read MoreOlympics expansion on Hackney Marshes ‘stifling’ local sports clubs and ‘vandalising’ land
Critics condemn Olympics as waste of money better spent on projects of real and lasting value to Hackney residents and the local environment
Read MoreOlympics synchronised swimming fans left high and dry
Swim fans asked to swap events as Olympics organisers admit 10,000 tickets oversold
Read MoreHouseboaters being ‘forced out’ of Olympics area
River Lea residents claim they are being priced out and uprooted from their community by British Waterways
Read MoreHackney school students bag Olympics jobs
Two hundred Hackney students working at Olympics to be paid London Living Wage after help from community campaign group
Read MoreConcern over Hackney jobs as London 2012 media centre bidding opens
The future of the Olympic press and broadcast centre hangs in the balance amid concerns over jobs for local people
Read MoreWhich way to East Wick?
Hackney is to get a new neighbourhood which will be built on the site of the Olympic Park after the 2012 Games
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