A huge row has broken out over proposals to introduce parking charges at one of London’s most famous grassroots football venues. Hackney council is proposing to charge drivers up to £5.70 per hour – ...

This grab taken from video taken on Aug. 21, 2015, shows Jermaine Wright, a NHS pharmacist and referee of the Hackney Marshes grassroots football league, in London. Wright, affectionately known as Mr.

Plans to introduce parking charges at a famous London grassroots football venue are to be extended across other parks and leisure facilities, The Standard can reveal. More than 1,450 people have ...

Fans are (hopefully) coming back this season, which means a chance to watch football in some of the most beautiful, weird and exhilarating grounds, to test the pints and pies and to visit some places ...

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A plan to apply for permission for up to 30 events a year on Hackney Marshes in east London has been shelved. Hackney Council wanted to host the events every year between May and August for the next ...

LONDON (AP) — The best referees are largely invisible, maintaining order unobtrusively and letting the players decide the game. Their absence — when things can spin out of control — is often more ...

LONDON (AP) - The best referees are largely invisible, maintaining order unobtrusively and letting the players decide the game. Their absence - when things can spin out of control - is often more ...