MORE PUBS have been opening in Hackney than anywhere else in the UK. Sixty-five have opened since 2010, a rise attributable to the influx
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Two Londoners aiming to break into the drinks biz with their own kind of energy
THE MARKET FOR BEVERAGES styling themselves energy drinks is a crowded one and, with sales of almost £40 billion worldwide, a fast-growing market. The
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Battle to save the Acorn pub in Haggerston loses out to the wrecker’s ball
THE ACORN, THE VICTORIAN PUB opposite Haggerston Park in south Hackney, is to be demolished. Loving Dalston first alerted Hackneyites, in 2016, to the
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Reprieve for Dalston shopping village as owner backs off closure that also threatened street market
* Press this link for a crowd-funder to help to ensure the indoor market’s future * UPDATE Friday 26 October 2018: the Ridley Road Shopping
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Dead batteries? Sainsbury’s finds a way to recycle despite some strange Dalston behaviour
HACKNEY HAS more people with degrees from good universities than any other part of Britain. And incomes to match: the disposable incomes of residents
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Stabbings, fighting, racism, crack, theft, shoplifting: a hell-hot summer in the hell-hole of Dalston
AN OPEN SPACE AND A STREET in the heart of Dalston. A young man saunters by a shop and threatens to stab the owner.
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The Waste is dead, long live Kingsland: new market answers Hackney council’s critics
* Update February 2019: even on sunny Saturdays, stalls are closing early as the market suffers a lack of the liveliness essential to a
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Dalston’s Ridley market is holding to its roots and Hackney is reviving Kingsland says council
* UPDATE: Kingsland Market today Saturday 27 July 2018 opened on the site of the former Waste Market RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted
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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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Marks and Spencer churchy charity choice raises unholy doubts after Dalston opening
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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