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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Euro elections? How to use the vote in perhaps your last chance to influence the EU
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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Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City
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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Gentrification advances as Pret a Manger lines up a big site in the heart of Dalston
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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