IT’S UNLIKELY THAT MANY BUSINESSES have a job position entitled “Head of Vibe”. If they do, you’d imagine they’d be either a sad assemblage
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Happy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre
WHEN LEYLA NAZLI and Mehmet Ergen started the Arcola in 2000 they could hardly have imagined that the venue would become a destination venue for theatre
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Ride-on! Stoke Newington attitude comes to the aid of a Hackney cop in hot pursuit
AS ALICE ROBERTS was playing tennis in Clissold Park, above, one chilly afternoon this week, three youths on hire bicycles caught her eye. Something
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Switch off that engine — or face a £130 fine says Hackney as it clamps down on idling
DRIVERS IN HACKNEY will be fined £130 if they let their engines idle after being asked to switch them off, Loving Dalston can exclusively
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Bring out the candles, turn down the lights, you’re in for a stimulating night in a Dalston flat
THIS IS SPOOKY. Enjoyably so, but still spooky. A couple of techies dig out some info about you — nothing invasive, the kind of
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Hackney council is splashing out £4.5 million on a new pool for its popular lido
SPLASH! AN EMAIL PLOPS into Loving Dalston’s email tank from Hackney council: London Fields Lido is to get a new, separate learner pool. If
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Austerity, what austerity? Hackney lays on £100k luxury as councillors take their turn
AS HACKNEY MAYOR Philip Glanville blames the Government for wrecking council budgets, the borough continues to fund a luxury imported limousine for a senior
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Merry Christmas to all — and here’s how Dalston doorsteps into the 2019 festive season
HOW DID THE IDEA OF WREATHS at Christmas happen? Who can say, is the admitedly inadequate answer of Loving Dalston. Various explanations are
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Christmas Day pubs 2019: a great year for a relaxed amble to the alehouse
A WEE CHRISSIE PRESENT for Hackneyites who like to go on a healthy walk before Christmas lunch: the Prince George is joining the barrel
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Instagrammers, the Wonder Factory is coming to Dalston to wow you with selfie opps
* Update 211219: the Wonder Factory is open. Booking A PRESS RELEASE announcing “the ultimate Instagram experience” and “marshmallow swimming pools, confetti cyclones, mirrors that
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Happy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre
WHEN LEYLA NAZLI and Mehmet Ergen started the Arcola in 2000 they could hardly have imagined that the venue would become a destination venue for theatre
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Switch off that engine — or face a £130 fine says Hackney as it clamps down on idling
DRIVERS IN HACKNEY will be fined £130 if they let their engines idle after being asked to switch them off, Loving Dalston can exclusively
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How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the Speaker’s chauffeured limo
HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,
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The Hackney café scene heats up: as Dalston venues crash, indies and chains cook up new ventures
* Update November 2019: not long since the F Cooke sign, top, was reinstated, the virtually vegetarian Dudleys at 123 Kingsland High Street E8
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Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?
YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in
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Hopes for 3 Dalston restos to be in the final serve for a tasty handout from Deliveroo
DELIVEROO, standby of many a time-pressed Londoner, has come up with a neat promotion: restaurant awards. What’s new about that? Little, it’s true, but
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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
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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
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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
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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
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