WHEN MARKS AND SPENCER returned to Dalston after decades away from Kingsland High Street, it decided to choose a charity partner that was local.
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Pub world buzzes as brewing multinational gets a generous taste of Tottenham ale
* UPDATE June 2018: Beaverton has sold Heineken 49 per cent of its shares. Beaverton founder Logan Plant said his brewery would remain “independent and autonomous”
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And
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Hope at last for ejected Hackney youth club as work starts on new premises
* UPDATE 241018: excavation for the 5m-deep basement starts… see above WORK HAS STARTED on a block of flats and offices that will
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Hit Dalston restaurant Fed By Water sunk by water problem plans new venue
* UPDATE July 2018: Fed By Water has moved temporarily to the narrow site of the former pub next to Dalston Kingsland Overground, immediately northwest
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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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Hackney council admits its no-car policy is somewhat broken and is being repaired
DEMOCRACY, FIASCO OR FLOP? Your decide. Hackney council has admitted to Loving Dalston that it’s no-car-space planning policy has been abused. The admission supports
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Marks and Spencer calls on a Hackney pirate girl to snip the silk for a grand Dalston opening
AN 11-year-old Hackney schoolgirl will officially open the Marks and Spencer Foodhall next to Dalston Kingsland tomorrow (see update above). Jessica Dadzie, of Hackney,
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What a Freemason openness drive revealed about Hackney planning councillors: a mason-free zone
THE FREEMASONS have an image problem. Their clubs — lodges, they call them — are considered secret societies. The masons’ main site says, however, that
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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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