THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming
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Locals furious as buyer of Haggerston people’s baths demands 2 more storeys
THE BATTLE to save the swimming pool in the Haggerston Baths buildings has been lost. The hall that accommodates the 15m pool will never again echo
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Whitechapel Foundry can survive — and we’ll show how, say campaigners for ancient bell-maker
THE WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY, above, can continue to do what it has done for more than 400 years: make the kind of bells
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Hackney moves swiftly, which is good news for these magnificent flying machines
* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed
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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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As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!
* UPDATE 21 August 2018: The venue is due to open next month September 2018 and its name shall be EartH — no, the
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Another park shock as Hackney again comes up against the power of property dealers
HACKNEY COUNCIL’S HOUSING POLICY is coming under increasing criticism as developers encroach on the borough’s open spaces, said to comprise more than any other
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Hackney builds a new era on the ruins of a Thatcherite privatisation policy
A MULTIMILLION-POUND project to ease Hackney’s housing crisis is about to go to the next stage: shovels and cement. Fourteen developments are planned and
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All hope for Haggerston Baths has drained as Hackney sells lease to an equity fund
“NEW TENANT FOR HAGGERSTON Baths” was the dull title of an important Hackney council press release. Yet its very understatement made it eye-catching.
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What’s it cost to live behind the shop in a faux Georgian terrace in Dalston? Exclusive pix
THIS IS WHAT HACKNEY council insisted should replace a Georgian terrace in Dalston Lane. The terrace was crumbling by the time Hackney assigned
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