* Update February 2019: even on sunny Saturdays, stalls are closing early as the market suffers a lack of the liveliness essential to a
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Dalston’s Ridley market is holding to its roots and Hackney is reviving Kingsland says council
* UPDATE: Kingsland Market today Saturday 27 July 2018 opened on the site of the former Waste Market RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted
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Hackney moves swiftly, which is good news for these magnificent flying machines
* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed
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See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting
MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never
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Topsy-turvy voting in Hackney election as woman is allowed to use husband’s polling card
HOW EASY IS IT to vote twice in elections? Very easy, to judge from an incident in Hackney in the 2018 local elections. On
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Hackney council admits its no-car policy is somewhat broken and is being repaired
DEMOCRACY, FIASCO OR FLOP? Your decide. Hackney council has admitted to Loving Dalston that it’s no-car-space planning policy has been abused. The admission supports
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Will M and S Foodhall spark a boost for Dalston, or lead to the return of the department store?
PUSH YOUR WAY THROUGH the crowd that Marks and Spencer hopes will mill about in Kingsland High Street next Wednesday and you may pocket
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The carnivore is over: hipster Hackney to lead world in getting citizens to give up meat, dairy and fish
HACKNEY COUNCIL WORKERS queueing for breakfast in the staff canteen yesterday were shocked to find meat and fish off the menu. Cooks told hungry
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Drama down the Ditch: two Edinburgh hits coming to the town hall saved as an arts centre
* Update 250418: The Nature Of Forgetting impressed at tonight’s press preview. Loving Dalston can recommend this play, along with the venue which, in a
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Hackney, where more children avoid the dentist than anywhere else, says a survey
MORE THAN HALF of the children living in England, 42%, do not visit a dentist even once a year, despite its being free for
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