THE ACORN, THE VICTORIAN PUB opposite Haggerston Park in south Hackney, is to be demolished. Loving Dalston first alerted Hackneyites, in 2016, to the
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Reprieve for Dalston shopping village as owner backs off closure that also threatened street market
* UPDATE Friday 26 October 2018: the Ridley Road Shopping Village traders have won what one campaigner called “a small win” but which could
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Child refugees: Do more to help, activists tell Hackney as part of plan to bring 10,000 stranded youngsters to UK
HACKNEY COUNCIL MUST DO more for child refugees, say activists for migrants from war zones. A charity, Safe Passage, wants the UK government to resettle
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First cut is the deepest: Islington takes action on FGM
ALMOST 140,000 GIRLS and women in Britain are believed to have been affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), says the National Society for the
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Austerity… yet Hackney council finds it can pay £100k to 5 more people than the 30 a year before
THE RISE THIS YEAR of council tax in Hackney has been blamed partly on government cuts. Of course, a Labour borough would criticise the austerity
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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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A UK premiere in Hackney: how music hath power to soothe the savaged brain
As Dalston hosts the UK premiere of the film Lady Lovely Lute, producer-director Laura Stratford, above, says she hopes the documentary will help to
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Stabbings, fighting, racism, crack, theft, shoplifting: a hell-hot summer in the hell-hole of Dalston
AN OPEN SPACE AND A STREET in the heart of Dalston. A young man saunters by a shop and threatens to stab the owner.
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Hip-hop raised up this Dalston street art — a few minutes with a sledgehammer smashed it down
LIKE A GOLDEN FLARE these hip-hop walls lit up a scrappy corner of Dalston but now art has fallen victim to philistinism. The portraits,
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English? Forget it! Ten ways white people have of getting you to call yourself anything but that
IF YOUR SKIN’S not white, your name sounds foreign or you look “different”, white English people will say you’re: * British * a Londoner *
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Battle to save the Acorn pub in Haggerston loses out to the wrecker’s ball
THE ACORN, THE VICTORIAN PUB opposite Haggerston Park in south Hackney, is to be demolished. Loving Dalston first alerted Hackneyites, in 2016, to the
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Reprieve for Dalston shopping village as owner backs off closure that also threatened street market
* UPDATE Friday 26 October 2018: the Ridley Road Shopping Village traders have won what one campaigner called “a small win” but which could
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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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Stabbings, fighting, racism, crack, theft, shoplifting: a hell-hot summer in the hell-hole of Dalston
AN OPEN SPACE AND A STREET in the heart of Dalston. A young man saunters by a shop and threatens to stab the owner.
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The Waste Market is dead, long live Kingsland: new market answers Hackney council’s critics
WITH LITTLE FANFARE a new market opened in Hackney today Saturday 28 July 2018 and traders and the public took to it. Kingsland Market
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Dalston’s Ridley market is holding to its roots and Hackney is reviving Kingsland says council
* UPDATE: Kingsland Market today Saturday 27 July 2018 opened on the site of the former Waste Market RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted
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See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting
MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never
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Marks and Spencer churchy charity choice raises unholy doubts after Dalston opening
WHEN MARKS AND SPENCER returned to Dalston after decades away from Kingsland High Street, it decided to choose a charity partner that was local.
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Pub world buzzes as brewing multinational gets a generous taste of Tottenham ale
* UPDATE June 2018: Beaverton has sold Heineken 49 per cent of its shares. Beaverton founder Logan Plant said his brewery would remain “independent and autonomous”
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And
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