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'You've got to be friends': Hackney couple celebrate 60 years of marriage

Jack and Hilda Chalkley got married 60 years ago at Hackney Town Hall in 1962

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A Hackney husband and wife visited the Town Hall yesterday, to celebrate their diamond anniversary.
Protestors at a Freedom for Ukraine rally in the 1960s

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'Freedom for Ukraine': Hackney resident speaks on long history of...

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All Island Grill has been running in Hackney for 16 years

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'A man who feeds the people': Protesters praise All Island Grill owner...

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Protestors outside the Russian Embassy in west London, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pi

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'Crime against peace': Hackney leaders speak out after Russia invades...

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All Island Grill was a popular Caribbean take-away on Bradbury Street

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Thousands sign petition to save Dalston's All Island Grill ahead of protest

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Mayor of Hackney Phil Glanville speaking on Holocaust Memorial Day. Picture: Hackney Council/ Gary M

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International Holocaust Memorial Day: Hackney remembers victims and...

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An independent Homerton cinema founded through community crowdfunding will be celebrating it's fifth birthday next month

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Community cinema celebrates five years of motion pictures

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The statue of Sir Robert Geffrye features prominently on one side of the museum's building. 

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Hackney anti-racism group praise 'inspirational' Colston 4

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Hackney poet, playwright and author Lemn Sissay OBE. 

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'Reach for the stars,' says poet Lemn Sissay

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The now derelict An Viet House, also known as the Old Bath House, will be transformed into a community centre

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De Beauvoir to house UK's first East and South-East Asian resource centre

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