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
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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
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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
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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.
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The big stink hits Dalston. If you’ve not smelt it, don’t worry because you soon will
HACKNEY PEOPLE are causing a big stink — nothing new there, then — but this time it’s not a protest to save anything.
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Don’t use the shower — pee in it, two Hackney pool instructors tell schoolchildren
* UPDATE June 2019: Staff have told Loving Dalston that two swimming instructors have been informally reprimanded. Pool-operator GLL has not given an official
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Enough of polluting cars turning our district into dirty Dalston, say locals
• The noise and pollution from traffic into Dalston have driven people living near Ridley Road to start a campaign to green the streets.
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Thousands of fish die as killer river sends airless water down from Tottenham through Hackney
THE LEE IS A RIVER of death this long weekend as the bloated bodies of roach, carp, dace and other fish float down from
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hackney finds a way for residents to stay in the European Union… get EUsed to it
HACKNEY HAS FOUND a way to give its residents easy access to the European Union. No more need to find Irish or continental ancestors,
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How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus but it can help
HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecturer and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s
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Replace your bankrupt builder… oh, and find £3 million: life as a social entrepreneur in Hackney
You may not know Auro Foxcroft but you may have occasionally wondered about the Tube carriages stranded on a rooftop in Shoreditch. The social
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Omigod! Hindu campaigner demands ‘immediate’ withdrawal of Hackney designer’s swimsuit
FREE SPEECH IS integral to this country: the right to criticise the government; the Church; our head of State, Queen Elizabeth. Naturally, there are
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Goodbye Gujarati Rasoi: another Hackney restaurant is struck off the foodie menu
JUST AS LONDON hits peak vegan, a Hackney vegetarian ’n’ vegan pathmaker restaurant puts its tables away for good. Gujarati Rasoi in Bradbury Street, Dalston N16
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Spoilsports end the spectator fun of watching tailgating in a Dalston supermarket car park
THE WEEKLY SUPERMARKET SHOP can be hard work — all that comparing prices, queueing to pay, fetching your bags home — but there was
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