* 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
* Monday 170820: News from the extraordinary general meeting held by the new Rio regime will be published by Loving Dalston this week
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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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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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Hackney quietly takes luxury limo off the road after this site’s campaign against council excess
• UPDATE JANUARY 2021: Loving Dalston’s revelations about the Hackney limo benefit for a lucky councillor have had a result: Hackney has ended the costly
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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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