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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Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event
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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Hackney finds a way for residents to stay in the European Union… get EUsed to it
HACKNEY HAS FOUND a way to give its residents easy access to the European Union. No more need to find Irish or continental ancestors,
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How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus but it can help
HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecturer and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s
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Replace your bankrupt builder… oh, and find £3 million: life as a social entrepreneur in Hackney
You may not know Auro Foxcroft but you may have occasionally wondered about the Tube carriages stranded on a rooftop in Shoreditch. The social
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Omigod! Hindu campaigner demands ‘immediate’ withdrawal of Hackney designer’s swimsuit
FREE SPEECH IS integral to this country: the right to criticise the government; the Church; our head of State, Queen Elizabeth. Naturally, there are
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Goodbye Gujarati Rasoi: another Hackney restaurant is struck off the foodie menu
JUST AS LONDON hits peak vegan, a Hackney vegetarian ’n’ vegan pathmaker restaurant puts its tables away for good. Gujarati Rasoi in Bradbury Street, Dalston N16
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Spoilsports end the spectator fun of watching tailgating in a Dalston supermarket car park
THE WEEKLY SUPERMARKET SHOP can be hard work — all that comparing prices, queueing to pay, fetching your bags home — but there was
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