By Remi on 19/05/2019
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Crime, Hackney News, Pets, Stoke Newington, What The Fook

Evil comes in many forms. Even as a smiley pleasant cat lovin’ lady who fancies herself as the Mother Theresa of cats. As some of you are aware, I have been dogged with legal problems of the criminal type for the past two years. One of my charges was dropped in January and the other, […]
By Remi on 27/10/2017
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Hackney News, Pets

Friday 27 October is a special day for the type of cats that get looked over most in animal shelters for adoption. From old superstitions to silly ideas based on aesthetics, such as Black cat not being as photogenic as lighter cats, to black cats not blending in with the furniture, rescue centres have heard it all. Feline […]
By Remi on 28/08/2017
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Hackney Downs, Transport

Not what you expect to see as you stumble onto the platform of Hackney Downs station, early on a bank holiday Saturday morning. A couple in the throws of ….. whatever it was, shamelessly vertically copulated on platform 1, as they waited for their train to arrive. The unknown couple were filmed by someone also […]
By Remi on 28/07/2017
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Crime, Dalston, Hackney News

Dalston right now, probs stay away if you’re near pic.twitter.com/1fklh9c3A5 — Louise Donovan (@louisedonovan_) July 28, 2017 Please follow us on twitter for live updates. More to follow.
By Remi on 05/06/2017
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Hackney News

One of the missing last seen outside the Barrowboy and Bankers pub in Borough Market on Saturday night, and now believed to be dead, has been named by his family as James McMullan, 32, of Hackney. Today his sister Melissa McMullan, paid a tearful tribute to her brother and other victims of Saturdays terror attack: […]
By Remi on 09/04/2017
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Crime, Stoke Newington

A 27 year old woman is fighting for her life, after she was found stabbed early Sunday morning in Rectory Road. The victim who is 27 year’s old, was found just before 3.30 am, near the junction of Rectory Road and Evering Road. She is said to have multiple stab wounds and is in a life […]
By Remi on 01/02/2017
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Crime, Hackney News, Stamford Hill

Following the attack on a Parking Warden which occurred on 16th January on Leeside Road, two men were arrested this morning. The warden was arrested at the scene of the attack and interviewed in relation to the matter where he made cross allegations regarding those who had detained him, he is currently on Police Bail. […]
By Remi on 22/10/2016
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Clapton, Crime, Hackney News

Hackney police have just released this statement: “On the afternoon of Thursday, 20 October a 17-year-old female was walking towards a bus stop in Lea Bridge Road, E5. She was approached by two males who forced her into an area in Millfield Park where one of the males raped her while the other stood watch. […]
By Remi on 30/06/2016
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Hackney News, Local Politics

On the day former Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, bottled it by ruling himself out of his party’s leadership race of a country in gargantuan political turmoil, Hackneys mayor of a decade and a half, Jules Pipe, has announced he wil be standing down to take up a post in City Hall. Following his appointment as Deputy Mayor of […]
By Remi on 15/10/2015
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Crime, Haggerston

A police officer has been shot during an authorized operation, by Trident Gang Crime Unit and Met’s Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19), in Haggerston today at lunchtime. The male police officer has been taken to an East London Hospital by air ambulance, and is said to be in stable condition. A statement released by the Met Police said: […]