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LonFieldsLido©DA18: London Fields Lido #Dalston #Hackney E8 new W-side outxdoors showers 030118 © david.altheer@gmail.com David Altheer 030118

Don’t use the shower — pee in it, two Hackney pool instructors tell schoolchildren

06/18/201907/08/2019 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

* 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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dirtydalston4©DA19: Ridley Road Market, Dalston, Hackney E8, shuts down for the night © davidaltheer@gmail.com 030619

Enough of polluting cars turning our district into dirty Dalston, say locals

06/12/2019 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

• 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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EUParly©DA15: European Parliament, Strasbourg, France. Hearts On Fire cycle tour (Rhine source to sea-mouth): 200915 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Euro elections? How to use the vote in perhaps your last chance to influence the EU

05/21/201910/02/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

  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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EU©DAlead: Hackney-HacknEU © david.altheer@gmail.com

Hackney finds a way for residents to stay in the European Union… get EUsed to it

04/01/201904/01/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

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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LonFields©DA: London Fields Hackney London E8 2EP 311016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Councillor dips into own pocket to buy trees for the people of Hackney

11/20/2018 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS

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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Acorn1016Q: pub Queensbridge and Whiston rds 281016 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

Battle to save the Acorn pub in Haggerston loses out to the wrecker’s ball

11/13/201801/27/2021 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

* Update January 2021: demolition finally starts, marking the end of one of Hackney’s last true Cockney boozers   THE ACORN, THE VICTORIAN PUB

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Harmer©DA18: Harmer Ridley Road Shopping Village 51-63 Ridley Rd N side Dalston E8 231018 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Reprieve for Dalston shopping village as owner backs off closure that also threatened street market

10/25/201811/21/2018 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

* 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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Child refugees: Do more to help, activists tell Hackney as part of plan to bring 10,000 stranded youngsters to UK

10/21/201810/21/2018 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

HACKNEY COUNCIL MUST DO more for child refugees, say activists for migrants from war zones.  A charity, Safe Passage, wants the UK government to resettle

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First cut is the deepest: Islington takes action on FGM

10/16/201810/16/2018 COUNCIL, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

ALMOST 140,000 GIRLS and women in Britain are believed to have been affected by female genital mutilation (FGM), says the National Society for the

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HackneyTH©DA0718: Mare St London E8 250718 © david.altheer@gmail.com

Hackney council pays 5 workers more than the Prime Minister even as it talks about austerity

09/23/201802/21/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

THE RISE THIS YEAR of council tax in Hackney has been blamed partly on government cuts. Of course, a Labour borough would criticise the austerity

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