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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

FANCY A FREE DRINK? Head for super Hackney pub the Virgin Queen. This boutique boozer is offering Loving Dalston readers their drink of choice.

DalstonStink©DA: Fatberg? Network Rail work at Martel Place, Dalston E8 2LX 270219 © david.altheer@gmail.com

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.

LonFieldsLido©DA18: London Fields Lido #Dalston #Hackney E8 new W-side outxdoors showers 030118 © david.altheer@gmail.com David Altheer 030118

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

dirtydalston4©DA19: Ridley Road Market, Dalston, Hackney E8, shuts down for the night © davidaltheer@gmail.com 030619

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.

fish©DA19scale: fish killed apparently by pollution in rivers Lea Navigation channel after fire in Garman Road N17 0UR next to Pymmes Brook, which flows into the Lea © david.altheer@gmail.com 260419

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

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

Busker Mikey @ Kingsland Centre 180712 © ∂å

Farewell Mikey… Dalston’s favourite busker has sung his last song to Hackney

* UPDATE 210519: Michael Gregovich’s funeral, a Roman Catholic service, was held at Forest Gate cemetery chapel E7 9DG, today, followed by a wake

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

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

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

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

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

EU©DAlead: Hackney-HacknEU © david.altheer@gmail.com

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,

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

EartH©DA0219: Village Underground chief Auro Foxcroft, at launch of his eaterie, EartH Kitchen, in EartH, ex Savoy Cinema, 11 Stoke Newington Rd, Dalston N16 8BH, 130219 © David.Altheer@gmail.com

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

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

Bradburyi©DA12: Bradbury St Dalston N16 8JN © david.altheer@gmail.com 210712

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