HACKNEY HAS A NEW HERO. Raised in London Fields, Tao Geoghegan Hart last weekend won the Giro d’Italia, 3,345.7km of racing across Italy for
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Midnight madness in Hackney as man crashes SUV into parked cars
THREE PARKED VEHICLES WERE DAMAGED when a four-wheel-drive SUV whacked them as it rolled erratically and noisily along Colvestone Crescent, Dalston E8, late last
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Best woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it
* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos
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Signs of relief as streetwise campaigners win preservation promise from Hackney council
HERITAGE LOVERS HAVE WON their campaign to persuade Hackney council to save a slice of the borough’s history. The council has promised to preserve
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Switch off that engine — or face an £80 fine as Hackney ups its crackdown on cars
DRIVERS IN HACKNEY will be fined £80 if they needlessly let their engines idle after being asked to switch them off. The penalty, a rise
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Shoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?
WHAT, TWO DISTRICTS in London are more enterprising than Shoreditch and Hoxton? Yep, Holborn-St Pancras, and Islington South-Finsbury have more small businesses per person
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Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in
THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming
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Ex-Hackney councillor soon to top the bestseller lists with a book hailing black Brits
A FORMER HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is about to become a bestselling author. Loving Dalston does not normally make predictions but Patrick Vernon’s non-fiction book, which he
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Woman buys all of a Hackney store’s glue traps to save rats from a horrible death
AFTER LOVING DALSTON asked a London builders’ supplies chain why a customer had felt it necessary to buy every one of its rat-catching glue
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Hungry for a bargain? Around Hackney Rishi’s dishies are keeping eateries busy-busy
EAT OUT TO PIG OUT, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s subsidised-dining scheme last month August 2020 was not called, was such a hit that
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Best woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it
* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos
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Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in
THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming
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Hungry for a bargain? Around Hackney Rishi’s dishies are keeping eateries busy-busy
EAT OUT TO PIG OUT, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s subsidised-dining scheme last month August 2020 was not called, was such a hit that
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A can of free beer for a hot day in one of Hackney’s biggest and prettiest parks
FANCY A FREE BEER? Pop along to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington tomorrow Saturday and with the right app you might score a can of
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Life in the lockdown: Hackney makes a session healthy for pubgoers
How safe is it to pop out for a drink? Clara Murray, right, sets off for a taste of drinking lockdown style PERSPEX
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Blame the staff, say trustees as Riovolutionaries oust them from Dalston cinema’s board
* Monday 170820: News from the extraordinary general meeting held by the new Rio regime will be published by Loving Dalston this week
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In the market for a buy or a rental? Hackney may be ripe for the picking
IS THIS THE TIME to try to swap the shackles of rent for the bonds of mortgage? As we ponder life after the coronavirus
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Locals furious as buyer of Haggerston people’s baths demands 2 more storeys
THE BATTLE to save the swimming pool in the Haggerston Baths buildings has been lost. The hall that accommodates the 15m pool will never again echo
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Rio 3! the Dalston cinema gets to work on planning for a vital extra screen
THE RIO is to get a third screen. It will be in the attic of the Kingsland High Street movie house, so long as
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Happy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre
WHEN LEYLA NAZLI and Mehmet Ergen started the Arcola in 2000 they could hardly have imagined that the venue would become a destination venue for theatre
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