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: […]
By Jerome Monahan on 19/06/2014
Art Exhibitions, Haggerston

It is quite something to have your third professional exhibition before your 19th birthday, but this was what 18-year-old Imogen Davis is celebrating this week, her startling black-and-white photographs having their first north London display thanks to a new art venue: The Haggerston Tearoom. Posing for publicity shots amid the tables and cakes, Imogen […]
By Remi on 30/05/2014
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Hackney News, Haggerston

Last years destructive bacchanal on Regents Canal’s Haggerston/Shoreditch/Dalston/Broadway Market stretch, threatens to return this weekend if some irresponsible revelers have their way, despite calls from the folks at the Canal and River Trust and the Met Police. If you recall, despite the Canalival Organizers cancelling it in 2013, following advise from the police, Hackney Council […]
By Remi on 30/12/2013
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Hackney News, Haggerston

A woman is recovering in hospital following a jump from a third floor apartment in Haggerston. London Fire Brigade was called to Adelaide Wharf, on the corner of Whiston and Queensbridge Road, in the early hours of this morning. The woman, whose age is not known, leapt before Fire Fighters arrived. A spokesman for the […]
By Remi on 10/09/2012
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Haggerston, Lead

Police were alerted at about 1:15 pm yesterday, Sunday, by a member of the public walking along Regents Canal in Haggerston, near Kingsland Road, after making a grim discovery, while walking along the canal. Police have declined to be drawn into speculating it could be the head of former East Ender actress, Gemma Gemma’s limbless […]
By Hackney Hive on 05/05/2011
Haggerston

It’s a great in-betweener