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Wild swimming in Waltham Forest… surely you can splash out a few quid for that?

TIME IS RUNNING OUT for you to crowdfund the first new swimming ponds in London since those at Hampstead were created in 1777. Clean

Activists set out to crack Shell with their spoof ads on bus stops in Hackney and elsewhere

NEXT TIME YOU wait for a bus in Hackney, glance at the advertisements on the shelter walls. One of the posters may make you

The glorious Hackney Empire goes grimey for the Arcola’s astonishing opera festival

* Update Sunday 7 August 2022: today is your last chance to see performances of either/both grand operas. Julia Burbach’s shortened productions will give

Mega multinational beer company fails to sink pint-sized Hackney brewery’s Jupiter ale

A SMALL BREWERY is celebrating after social media came to its rescue when the world’s biggest beermaker told it not to use the name Jupiter

Moon©DA0218: © davidaltheer@gmail.com super blue moon over St Mark's Dalston London E8 010218

Starry starry nights? In NE London you may be not so starstruck — and here’s why

STARRY, STARRY NIGHT is a rather charming pop song inspired by a painting of a Vincent van Gogh inspired by the Provençal nightscape. Good

ltn©DA20:© david.altheer@gmail.com Hackney’s attempt to create LTNs (low traffic neighbourhoods) comes to jammed halt in Morning Lane, Homerton E9, as seen from a 276 bus 260920

Now fancy that: how Hackney and other councillors benefit from LTNs

THE CLAIM THAT low traffic neighbourhoods adversely affect less-affluent areas in Hackney and other boroughs has been borne out by new research. Councillors

You’ll never guess the table that Hackney now tops (almost). No, not hipsterness… Oh, you guessed

SOMEHOW FOUND ENOUGH MONEY to put a deposit on a flat in the northeast of our fine city? Well, before you offer on that

Barbi©DA22Will: © david.altheer@gmail.com interactive nature game Barbi chief Will Gompertz launches Our Time on Earth show at Barbican launch 040522

Hackney’s super arts venue (the Barbican, ennit?) tells us how to save the world

Launching the eco-exhibition: above, Barbican arts boss Will Gompertz and, below, curator Luke Kemp IT IS a pleasant paradox that a world-famous arts centre funded

Three in one: a black breakthrough for a legendary East London club

Above: birthplace of the Hammers. On the right of Bow Creek / Leamouth is the site of the metal-bashing factory where a works footy

Access all areas: Hackney allows e-cars to ride through LTN gates and to do school runs

ELECTRIC VEHICLES WILL be allowed to pass through the gates of Hackney’s low traffic neighbourhoods — and to do the both the morning and

VandA©DA21gus: V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford at VandA East PR event in Here East (ex Olympic 2012 media centre) in front of Kehinde Wiley's 2020 portrait of Melissa Thompso met in Ridley Rd Market, Dalston, 300621

This man could be the messiah to launch art from the East End to a rave new world

BEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced

Marie©DA20: © david.altheer@gmail.com Marie Murray, co-founder Curve Garden, Dalston Ln, Hackney, London E8 081116

Care about Dalston? Suddenly you and many others may find yourself studying a supermarket car park

WHEN DALSTONERS recently received a leaflet with a message from an agent of a big West End property investor, they may well have been

GeffryeBus©DA20:© DavidAltheer@gmail.com, protesters against Robt Geffrye statue at Museum of the Home, Haggerston, Lon, 301020

Protesters fail to topple Geffrye slavery statue at Hackney museum under attack from two sides

* Update spring 2021: The museum reopening is scheduled for Saturday 12 June this year. * Update December 2020: It shall not be moved, the

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