LONDON ICON and lifelong beauty Dame Barbara Windsor today launched the Hackney Empire Walk of Fame. The Carry On movie series and EastEnders actress unveiled a
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Queen of all she surveys, a noisy road in Dalston: restored monarch again rules TV-famed old pub
LOVING DALSTON’S CAMPAIGN for the sign that once hung from the Dalston pub celebrated as the Queen Vic in BBC1’s EastEnders has succeeded. True, it
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Hackney in running for planning Oscars, even though the public have often been unable to see the plans
* UPDATE 060317: Hackney says its plan had always been to provide hard copies of major planning applications on request, and to require
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The most important buildings in the world: they are in Hackney and they are happening now
* Update 080218: The world’s highest wooden building, 350m tall, will be completed in Tokyo by 2041 if manufacturer Sumitomo Forestry’s plan succeeds. Unlike
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Old Dalston Theatre poster is saved for the nation as museum steps in where Hackney hesitated
THE PEOPLE OF HACKNEY will be able to see a superb memento of the lost theatre of Dalston now that the Museum Of London
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Haggerston Baths will stay dry. A century of serving Hackney ends as pool-saving plan sinks
* UPDATE November 2017: Hackney sells the Haggy. Full story — New York financiers get baths for 250 years * UPDATE Monday 271116:
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Hackney youth club is out on the streets as Dalston developer submits plans for prime site
* UPDATE 240417: An application, 2017/1193, for nine above-ground flats has finally been made. Comments can be sent online until late next month, May 2017. The application 2016/4223 for the basement
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A Stoke Newington school for the poor is converted to a haven for the funds of the cash-rich
THIS HANDSOME late-Georgian Stoke Newington school was built in 1837 for the poor. Almost two centuries on, it has been converted to homes for
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You’re barred: behind the railings last orders are called on a traditional Hackney boozer
THE BUSINESSMAN WHO owns the Acorn has stonewalled Loving Dalston’s request for openness about his planned demolition of the pub, which has had a loyal local
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Stylish beach house sinks because it is too close to Haggerston heritage pool swamped by decay
HAGGERSTON BATHS has been allowed to fall into decay over 15 years. Yet concern for it has been cited by a public body after
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