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HackDns©DA16: Hackney Downs London E8 spring 2016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the American saloon specially for the Speaker

HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,

Shanghai©da19Draughts: staff collating games sets, Draughts Café , ex Shanghai, Kingsland Hi St Dalston E8 © davidaltheer@gmail.com 1019 Hackney

The Hackney café scene heats up: as a Dalston venue sadly closes, indies and chains bravely cook up new ventures

ANOTHER CLOSURE has shaken Dalston’s turbulent restaurant scene at the same time as other eateries — some of them independent-owned, others chains —

Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in

vegan©DA18: Mildreds in Dalston London E8 240218 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Hopes for 3 Dalston restos to be in the final serve for a tasty handout from Deliveroo

DELIVEROO, standby of many a time-pressed Londoner, has come up with a neat promotion: restaurant awards. What’s new about that? Little, it’s true, but

She lost five children — now Yassin is warning the world about a woman-destroying condition

WHEN YOU’VE LOST five children, suffered painful medical negligence, survived strangling by a man you tried to help, had a hip-replacement operation before middle

Mod rule is coming to Dalston as mods return… or is it? Scooterists say they’ll give E8 a miss

DALSTON SHOULD BE RESONATING some time this bank-hol weekend to a great tock-tock, a brmmm-brmmming, a hum-humming. No need for alarm: it would not,

stmark©DAhalo16: St Mark’s church Colvestone Crers Hackney E8 2LG 050516 © david.altheer@gmail.com

What do we do with Dalston Foodhall charity? Hackney church won’t say

WHEN MARKS and SPENCER’s Foodhall in Dalston announced it had chosen as its charity partner an outfit whose charity commission statement raved about Jesus

LeeSwim©da19: relaxing on the Lee Navigation canal, Walthamstow side © david.altheer@gmail.com 160719

Fancy a swim in the Leedo? No, ta: you are risking your health in London’s dirty old Lee

TO A LEADING GREEN CAMPAIGNER, the Lee is England’s most polluted river, and few stretches look dirtier than the junk-filled section that run by

I’m from northeast London and I’m pledging allegiance to the caliphate

EVERY YEAR FOR ONE WEEKEND, and usually it happens to be one of the hottest of the summer, I leave my Ilford home for

VirginQueen©DA19: Remarkable Pubs MD Elton Mouna and VQ manager Heloise in the Virgin Queen ©david.altheer@gmail.com 080319

A free drink in Hackney: just say the word at the bar and it will be yours

* UPDATE Monday 290719: this offer has now ended FANCY A FREE DRINK? Head for super Hackney pub the Virgin Queen.

How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the American saloon specially for the Speaker

HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,

The Hackney café scene heats up: as a Dalston venue sadly closes, indies and chains bravely cook up new ventures

ANOTHER CLOSURE has shaken Dalston’s turbulent restaurant scene at the same time as other eateries — some of them independent-owned, others chains —

Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?

YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in

Hopes for 3 Dalston restos to be in the final serve for a tasty handout from Deliveroo

DELIVEROO, standby of many a time-pressed Londoner, has come up with a neat promotion: restaurant awards. What’s new about that? Little, it’s true, but

EUParly©DA15: European Parliament, Strasbourg, France. Hearts On Fire cycle tour (Rhine source to sea-mouth): 200915 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Euro elections? How to use the vote in perhaps your last chance to influence the EU

EVERY FIVE YEARS we citizens of European Union countries get the chance to vote people into the European Parliament. Sadly, few Londoners know

stress©DA19: stressbuster in foyer of Uncommon Liverpool Street, Liverpool Street, City.The artwork-stressbuster measures a user’s stress © david.altheer@gmail.com 160519

Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City

THIS STUNNING MOVING SCULPTURE is more than a lightshow, it’s a stressbuster. Workers in the City or in nearby Shoreditch are invited to

Pret©DA19: planning-permitted for Pret a Manger (?), Kingsland Hi St Dalston © david.altheer@gmail.com 190419

Gentrification advances as Pret a Manger lines up a big site in the heart of Dalston

ANYONE WORRIED about the creeping corporatisation of Dalston should stop reading now. Pret a Manger is opening a huge shop on the site, above, in

Olympic©DA12: Mo Farah and other Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the City of London at the start of the public celebration 10Sep12 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event

HURRAH, CYCLING IS TO BE BOOSTED by the people delivering the Olympics legacy to us northeast Londoners. Proposals to narrow Westfield Avenueand Montfichet Road