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Why Hackney wants to be rid of Dalston’s mural

HACKNEY COUNCIL is to privatise its Dalston mural, loved by locals and praised by Boris. The three-floor-high painting, inspired by an anti-nuke carnival and completed ...

How Dalston hips it up in SW London

DALSTON is conquering one of the world’s great exhibition spaces. Artists and other innovators are being invited to star in the monthly Friday Late at the Victoria ...

Ideal for Dalstoners: an intellectual salon

THE TIMES has reported that young Hackneyites are among the most academically qualified in Britain. So an event devoted to “ideas worth spreading” fits well ...

How not to make an East London cycle path

A DEDICATED cycle lane would logically be hailed by motorists, pedestrians and cyclists as a safety advance. But Tower Hamlets council has managed to upset everybody, ...

Lemon couscous, spicy mushrooms, Dalston style

EVERY WEEK I take £5  to Ridley Road Market in Dalston, Hackney, London E8 2LH, to spend on seasonal food, obviously not including items likely to ...

Hackney wins a deal over iPad ad in Shoreditch

A FIVE-FIGURE settlement has been agreed with Hackney council over a huge hoarding advertising the iPad. It was erected on the Old Street facade of ...

Who needs Bestival when Stokey has a petsival?

DOG SHOWS are usually fun, at least for children, and they inspired a Stoke Newington pet shop to organise a kind of free petsival. The ...

A £45k art prize in Bethnal Green imaginations

A COURSE in “unique problem-solving and creative-thinking techniques” sounds like one of those events run by California-inspired waffle gurus to which managements sometimes subject selected ...

The lurgy lays me low when I should be to market

EVERY WEEK I take £5  to Ridley Road Market in Dalston, Hackney, London E8 2LH, to spend on seasonal food, obviously not including items likely to ...

Is going up in the world good for Hackney?

OFTEN CALLED “one of the country’s most deprived boroughs”, Hackney returns a surprisingly large amount of tax. The borough’s population of almost 300,000 gives more ...

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Why Hackney wants to be rid of Dalston’s mural

HACKNEY COUNCIL is to privatise its Dalston mural, loved by locals and praised by Boris. The three-floor-high painting, inspired by an anti-nuke carnival and completed ...

Hackney wins a deal over iPad ad in Shoreditch

A FIVE-FIGURE settlement has been agreed with Hackney council over a huge hoarding advertising the iPad. It was erected on the Old Street facade of ...

Is going up in the world good for Hackney?

OFTEN CALLED “one of the country’s most deprived boroughs”, Hackney returns a surprisingly large amount of tax. The borough’s population of almost 300,000 gives more ...

Oo-arr, Shoreditch techies want a village hall

A VILLAGE HALL? Morris men dancing on the green, maidens flouncing around the maypole? Sounds more Suffolk than Shoreditch. Not if social entrepreneur James Governor ...

High-rise may replace Dalston’s Kingsland Centre

FOURTEEN FLOORS could rise above Kingsland High Street when the long-awaited demolition of Dalston’s shopping centre takes place. Hackney architect Andrew Waugh has prepared plans to develop ...

Visas don’t compute for Tech City skill-seekers

A SKILLS shortage is harming Silicon Roundabout, pictured. Local companies trying to import workers with coding and programming ability are being hampered by government immigration ...

Stuffed beef tomatoes with guacamole in E8

EVERY WEEK I take £5  to Ridley Road Market in Dalston, Hackney, London E8 2LH, to spend on seasonal food, obviously not including items likely to ...