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"Hackney's not that bad, it really isn't," he says, before immediately correcting himself.

Labrinth is SyCo's latest signing but he doesn't need a popstar bootcamp 2011

It becomes clear that while those outside these estates stereotype those inside, these young residents also have their own set views of every nationality in Hackney's ethnically diverse melting pot.

Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney residents 2011

The Guardian filmed others – some armed with baseball bats – on guard outside shops and restaurants in Kingsland Road, only a mile away from Hackney's burning high street.

London riots: 'People are fighting back. It's their neighbourhoods at stake' 2011

The rules at Hackney's Mossbourne academy are legendary, and widely seen as the secret of the school's success: no special handshakes, no hugging, no gathering in large groups.

The Saturday interview: Mossbourne academy's Sir Michael Wilshaw 2011

Those taking part in the battles in Hackney's Pembury estate on Monday included many women.

Who are the rioters? Young men from poor areas ... but that's not the full story 2011

When the rioters came to attack the premises of Kurdish and Turkish businesses in Hackney's Stoke Newington High Street and Kingsland Road on Monday night, the owners were waiting for them.

London riots: 'People are fighting back. It's their neighbourhoods at stake' 2011

The partying, which lasted until 4am on Saturday morning was, in the blogger's opinion, symptomatic "of new arrivals not really getting the measure of where they were living, having no idea about the community there and deciding to have a festival in a back garden at dawn, while people were trying to sleep, because Hackney's supposedly the centre of cool for the next five minutes."

Why do people hate hipsters? Alex Rayner 2010

Could Hackney's hipster-baiter ever concede that east London's trendies might, in the words of one n+1 contributor, remind us of "youth and daring and style, that we don't have any more or perhaps never did?"

Why do people hate hipsters? Alex Rayner 2010

Hackney may be moving toward the February peak [for this year] of 7% claiming dole - more than 10,000 of Hackney's working age population.

Jobseeking rising Dave Hill 2010

With the Olympics approaching, I understand Hackney's film officers are refusing requests to any film-makers whose scripts are about hoodies, riots, drugs, council estates and crime.

Trailer trash 2012