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Hackney Travellers campaign to move back to Olympic site

Daniel Mongan, who lived at Waterden Road Travellers site.

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Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

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It’s just under a decade since London hosted the Olympic Games, and the roar of the crowd and excitement of the medal haul has long faded away. Some Hackney families, though, are still living with the legacy. Twenty Travellers families were...
A design showing what St Michael & All Angels Church could look like after it is restored and revamped. 

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Vacant Grade I-listed Shoreditch church to be restored and revamped

Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

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Hackney author Matha Leigh's parents on their wedding day on July 6, 1945, outside Hackney Town Hall.

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Book details doctor's Jewish parents' love story amid Nazi persecution

Holly Chant

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