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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Switch off that engine — or face a £130 fine says Hackney as it clamps down on idling
DRIVERS IN HACKNEY will be fined £130 if they let their engines idle after being asked to switch them off, Loving Dalston can exclusively
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Hackney council is splashing out £4.5 million on a new pool for its popular lido
SPLASH! AN EMAIL PLOPS into Loving Dalston’s email tank from Hackney council: London Fields Lido is to get a new, separate learner pool. If
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Austerity, what austerity? Hackney lays on £100k luxury as councillors take their turn
AS HACKNEY MAYOR Philip Glanville blames the Government for wrecking council budgets, the borough continues to fund a luxury imported limousine for a senior
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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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Don’t use the shower — pee in it, two Hackney pool instructors tell schoolchildren
* UPDATE June 2019: Staff have told Loving Dalston that two swimming instructors have been informally reprimanded. Pool-operator GLL has not given an official
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Enough of polluting cars turning our district into dirty Dalston, say locals
• The noise and pollution from traffic into Dalston have driven people living near Ridley Road to start a campaign to green the streets.
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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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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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Councillor dips into own pocket to buy trees for the people of Hackney
A HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is so worried about global warming that he has bought trees worth thousands of pounds to give away to local people.
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