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Homeless©DA16:© DavidAltheer@gmail.com under municipal balcony in Haggerston Park Hackney London 080316

Helping street people in Hackney and Tottenham to stay safely clean in a time of virus

A NORTH LONDON businessman has created his own hand sanitiser to help rough sleepers and food banks in Hackney and Tottenham to cope with

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Rio 3! the Dalston cinema gets to work on planning for a vital extra screen

THE RIO is to get a third screen. It will be in the attic of the Kingsland High Street movie house, so long as

MinusOne©DA20:© david.altheer@gmail.com Shout About’s launch preview of MinusOne pop-up Warburton Rd, Hackney E8 3FN 25022

A pulsing new Hackney venue — best be quick before the developers take over

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

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

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

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

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

ChrisWreath©DA: Christmas @ Hackney London © david,altheer@gmail,com

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

Rio 3! the Dalston cinema gets to work on planning for a vital extra screen

THE RIO is to get a third screen. It will be in the attic of the Kingsland High Street movie house, so long as

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

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

HackDns©DA16: Hackney Downs London E8 spring 2016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

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

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

vegan©DA18: Mildreds in Dalston London E8 240218 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

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