* 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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Battle to save the Acorn pub in Haggerston loses out to the wrecker’s ball
* 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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Reprieve for Dalston shopping village as owner backs off closure that also threatened street market
* 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
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
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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Hackney council pays 5 workers more than the Prime Minister even as it talks about austerity
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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