* Update 25 July 20: the Lido reopens. Changing rooms not available for use. HACKNEY’S LIDO WILL NOT OPEN tomorrow even though
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Blame the staff, say trustees as Riovolutionaries oust them from Dalston cinema’s board
* Update 030720: In what must be a boardroom first, the Rio trustee directors have again quit, this second time blaming the staff. In an
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Rio revolutionaries tell cinema board to quit, as they attempt a Dalston boardroom coup
CIVIL WAR has broken out at the Rio. In the heat of the Covid-19 crisis, a protest group is attempting a boardroom coup at
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Locals furious as buyer of Haggerston people’s baths demands 2 more storeys
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 — or face a huge fine plans anti-idling Hackney. But there is a big delay
* Update June 2020: for reasons Hackney council is now attributing to lockdown, Loving Dalston was given information that became premature when the Covid-19
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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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