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Holly Chant

Community Reporter

Holly Chant is a reporter for the Hackney Gazette and focuses their work on covering the many diverse and vibrant communities which make the London borough of Hackney unique. 

Hackney poet, playwright and author Lemn Sissay OBE. 

Queens Birthday Honours List 2021: MP Meg Hillier and poet Lemn Sissay...

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A doctor injects a vaccine into Josephine Casey's arm.

Health

Thousands of Hackney's most vulnerable remain unvaccinated as Delta...

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Artist Michael McMillan

Arts & Culture

The Museum of the Home 'welcomes peaceful protest' over Geffrye statue

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Leonie Beatrice Gutmann, 36

Missing People

Missing: Highgate woman known to frequent Camden and Islington areas

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Ridley Road Market trader Hemin Abdullah

Community Heroes

Ridley Road market mask hero helps Hackney people through the pandemic

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Fifteen-year-old Nia Lekuwa, from Hackney and 12-year--old Brianna-Kayla Lynch from Tottenham

London teenagers inspired to write book about racism after George Floyd...

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Jeremiah Brew, 18.

Hackney Police

Phone snatcher admits guilt after robberies in Islington, Hackney and...

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An artist rendering of The Sea, The Sea's upcoming shop front in Hackney. 

Food and Drink

Top chef to bring Chelsea fish shop and seafood bar to Hackney

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Police flashing lights.

Gun crime

Increased police presence in Islington after teenager shot in the head

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Electoral map of Hackney North and Stoke Newington.

Elections

Hackney could lose Dalston ward to Islington under proposed redrawing of...

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