"NATURE lovers are up in arms over the felling of trees as part of a major restoration project at a Hackney church..."

(Via Hackney Gazette Trees face the axe: .)

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"THE 2012 Olympics came a step closer this week as businesses and landowners in Hackney were issued with compulsory purchase orders..."

(Via Hackney Gazette Give us your land: .)

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"Sadler,s Wells has been warned it could struggle to attract a new chief executive because of the emergence of the refurbished Hackney Empire as a favourite with both audiences and performers.

Current incumbent Jean-Luc Choplin, who announced his resignation from Sadler%u2019s Wells in January after less than one year in the post, will take up a new position at Paris%u2019 Chatelet Theatre in 2006. However, one senior opera source warned that since the reopened Hackney Empire was likely to develop into a serious rival before Choplin%u2019s successor was found"

(Via The Stage Online :: News :: Hackney Empire threatens Sadler's chances of new chief executive: .)

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"ONE of New York's most experienced park rangers swapped Central Park for Mile End Park when she shared some of her expertise. Head ranger Sarah Aucoin came to Tower Hamlets to share ideas and experience with park-keepers in Mile End. She was joined by he"

(Via Tower Hamlets Recorder A stroll in the park for ranger Sarah: .)

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"A LANDMARK avenue of much-loved trees in Epping Forest is to be felled."

(Via This Is Local London :: Top Stories Landmark trees for the chop: .)

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Please come to the visitors centre at Stoke Newington High St, N16. All activities are free, however, donations are gratefully accepted. For info please call The Abney Park Trust on 0207 275 7557.

Volunteering

• Every Wednesday and Friday 9.30-3.30pm.
• Help us care for trees, remove knotweed, maintain woodchip paths and other conservation projects to improve the site.

Guided Walks

• General History Walk.Sunday 25th Sept 2pm - A guided walk and talk with history of the site and some interesting people buried in Abney Park.
• Fungal Foray-Saturday 29th October at 2pm - An interesting guided walk, led by a specialist, looking at the fungus in Abney.
• Remembrance Sunday 13th November at 2pm - Meet at the visitors centre at Stoke Newington High St and join in a walk around Abney Park looking at the commonwealth war graves and the war memorial and hearing stories of our war heroes.

Children's Half-Term Workshops

• Please meet at the Environmental classroom-Stoke Newington High St.
• Seeds of Stokey - Tuesday 25th October at 2pm - Come and follow the seed trail in the Park and create an exploding seed pod.
• Migration Madness -Thursday 27th October at 2pm - Make your own window silhouette, wild bird feeder and study the journeys of migratory species around the world.

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"21 September (7pm) 22-24 September (7pm & 8.30pm) TO BOOK CALL: 020 7269 1606 (Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm) Fragments & Monuments present Wollstonecraft Live!"

(Via hackneycommunitynews at Yahoo! Groups Mary Wollstonecraft lives on Newington Greem: .)

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"A campaign has been launched to save scores of Hackney allotments which face being bulldozed to make way for the London Olympics in 2012..."

(Via Hackney Gazette Gardeners losing the plot: .)

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"RESIDENTS living in a conservation area have been left shocked and appalled after contractors replacing the footpath 'butchered' their beautiful, tree-lined street. Contractors employed by Hackney Council, the very people who implement conservation areas, have allowed the workers to dig up, remove and destroy several trees along Middleton Road in Dalston.

Trees in the borough are protected by the council and anyone who causes wilful damage, or destruction of trees, without the council's permission, can face a prosecution or fine for criminal damage.FOR THE FULL STORY SEE THIS WEEK'S GAZETTE AVAILABLE FROM THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1."

(Via Hackney Gazette, Tree fellers, 31 August 2005 : .)

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"WORK on the Olympic sites could be snarled up when builders try to get to the root of a mammoth problem."

(Via This Is Local London :: Top Stories Hogweed may halt Olympic work: .)

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"IS there a crocodile in the River Lea? Do we have our very own Lea Monster?"

(Via This Is Local London :: Top Stories Crocodile river rumours: .)

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"Travellers who will be forced from their Hackney Wick campsite by the Olympics say they are living in limbo because promises haven t been honoured to relocate them..."

(Via Hackney Gazette Travellers in Olympic limbo: .)

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It has just been announced by The Civic Trust that Clissold Park has won a much-coveted Green Flag Award, the first ever for Hackney. The Green Flag scheme has been running nationally for nearly ten years now, and the standards are pretty high, so congratulations to Mark White and his staff at Clissold Park for winning a Green Flag on their first try. Community involvement is one of the Green Flag criteria, so we assume that the work of the Clissold Park User Group, with its re-designed website, also helped impress the judges.

(Via clissoldpark News Green Flag award for Clissold Park: .)

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