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Pubs opening for a Christmas Day pre-dinner pint — and now we are optimistic

UNTIL THE COVID PANIC — sorry, pandemic — Loving Dalston published an exclusive guide to Christmas Day pub openings in and around Hackney. The

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Holed: Hackney prestige flats and shops development drills down to a dramatic lift shock

THE FLATS-RETAIL-OFFICES development was beset with problems. Among them were walls that started to crack, mis-fitting windows, bits that blew away when the wind

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Are we Covid-safe? No, not Hackney and other parts of NE London as winter nears

NOW THAT COVID is no longer a threat, your life is pretty well back to normal, right? Wrong, if you live in a northeast

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Pining for beauty: Hackney does its Dalston best but then…

HACKNEYITES ARE FORTUNATE to have a borough council that is more eco-minded than most in London. Sometimes, however, little things can go wrong, as when

Is Hackney failing to get thousands of ‘extremely vulnerable’ over-60s to take the vaccine?

A MONTH AGO Hackney council alarmed readers of this news site with the disturbing pandemic revelation that 17,000 of the most at-risk residents —

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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

Ride-on row as free-speech fan complains to a Hackney man’s employer about cycling views peddled on Twitter

THE BRITISH PRESS has traditionally been a guardian of our liberties, especially freedom of speech. So it is surprising that a distinguished journalist has

Selfish 17,000 threaten Freedom Day delay as Covid cases surge in Hackney among minority of refusers

* Update 210621: despite government promises that it would stick to what became known as Freedom Day, the latest stage in the schedule of

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Silence from officialdom over Hackney job only for ‘Black… and People of Colour’

OFFERING JOBS ONLY to people from under-represented groups is unlawful because it is discriminatory. So says the law. Yet that is what a Hackney

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Whiteout! How fake news wiped away some of Hackney’s finest street art

SOME OF THE FINEST ART SEEN on the streets of London has been wiped out by fake news. Hip-hop Raised Me, a striking collage

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

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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

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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