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Rio©DA0119L: cinema Dalston © David.Altheer@gmail.com 121119

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

03/05/202003/05/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

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

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Happy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre

02/21/202003/06/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

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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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

11/12/201902/02/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

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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Shanghai©da19Draughts: staff collating games sets, Draughts Café , ex Shanghai, Kingsland Hi St Dalston E8 © davidaltheer@gmail.com 1019 Hackney

The Hackney café scene heats up: as Dalston venues crash, indies and chains cook up new ventures

11/01/201912/05/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

      * 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?

10/13/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

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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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

10/03/201910/03/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FOOD, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

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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EUParly©DA15: European Parliament, Strasbourg, France. Hearts On Fire cycle tour (Rhine source to sea-mouth): 200915 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Euro elections? How to use the vote in perhaps your last chance to influence the EU

05/21/201910/02/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

  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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stress©DA19: stressbuster in foyer of Uncommon Liverpool Street, Liverpool Street, City.The artwork-stressbuster measures a user’s stress © david.altheer@gmail.com 160519

Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City

05/21/201905/21/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FASHION, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

  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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Pret©DA19: planning-permitted for Pret a Manger (?), Kingsland Hi St Dalston © david.altheer@gmail.com 190419

Gentrification advances as Pret a Manger lines up a big site in the heart of Dalston

05/13/201911/03/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 2

  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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Olympic©DA12: Mo Farah and other Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the City of London at the start of the public celebration 10Sep12 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event

04/15/201904/21/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS, TRANSPORT

  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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