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VirginQueen©DA19: Remarkable Pubs MD Elton Mouna and VQ manager Heloise in the Virgin Queen ©david.altheer@gmail.com 080319

How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus although it can help

HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecture and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s

Big bad boss bird beats up proud baby family in Victoria Park pond

THIS SERIES of photographs shows that even on the calm waters of a rustic-looking park in the capital, violence in nature is never far

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

fatney©DA18donut: queueing in Kingsland mall #Dalston Hackney E8 for highly sugared doughnuts 230618 © David.Altheer@gmail.com

School meals are getting healthier yet in Hackney students still pay to eat junk food

BY THE TIME HACKNEY CHILDREN finish primary school, one in four will be obese. And when they enter their teens, half of them will

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

In the pink financially? Take tea with Andy Warhol in Stokey — figuratively speaking

STRUGGLING FOR THAT SPECIAL Valentine’s Day treat for a loved one? How about afternoon tea with Andy Warhol? That’s “with” the celebrity pop icon

Ridley©DA0818: Ridley Rd Market entrance from Kingsland Hi St Dalston Hackney E8 Sat 250818 © david.altheer@gmail.

Top Boy, top grime; yep, it’s gotta be another TV series about gang crime

A TV DRAMA about gangs and drugs… now where might they film that? Why, Hackney, of course. Gentrifiers (as if anyone would admit to

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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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Youth stabbed outside homeless-help centre set up at a Hackney school

A YOUTH WAS STABBED outside a Hackney high school as it hosted a Crisis At Christmas pop-up centre. The 17-year-old was cycling past the

How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus although it can help

HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecture and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s

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

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

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

beer©DA17: Jaega Wise of Wild Card Brewery @ Craft Beer Rising, Truman’s Brewery 240217 © david.altheer[a t] gmail.com

Hackney boozers its way to the top: more new pubs than anywhere else in the land

MORE PUBS have been opening in Hackney than anywhere else in the UK. Sixty-five have opened since 2010, a rise attributable to the influx

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Two Londoners aiming to break into the drinks biz with their own kind of energy

THE MARKET FOR BEVERAGES styling themselves energy drinks is a crowded one and, with sales of almost £40 billion worldwide, a fast-growing market. The

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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