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Best woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it

10/15/202010/22/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, NEWS

* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos

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NEsign©DA20:© david.altheer@gmail.com lingering NE sign in Hackney (at the S end of the street) 060420 (poss since removed/stolen)

Signs of relief as streetwise campaigners win preservation promise from Hackney council

10/14/202002/21/2021 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 1

HERITAGE LOVERS HAVE WON their campaign to persuade Hackney council to save a slice of the borough’s history. The council has promised to preserve

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thames©DA17: graffiti @ Leamouth nr East India Dock Basin on approach to Trinity Buoy Wharf by Thames Newham, London E8 060914 ©

Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in

09/25/202009/25/2020 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS

  THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming

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Patrick Vernon, MBE ex cllr, Hackney London 180415 © DavidAltheer@gmail.com

Ex-Hackney councillor soon to top the bestseller lists with a book hailing black Brits

09/24/202011/10/2020 COUNCIL, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

* Update 101120: an exhibition in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, promoting the book, was vandalised A FORMER HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is about to become a bestselling author. Loving

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Hungry for a bargain? Around Hackney Rishi’s dishies are keeping eateries busy-busy

09/10/202009/10/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, FOOD, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

  EAT OUT TO PIG OUT, as Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s subsidised-dining scheme last month August 2020 was not called, was such a hit that

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Way to Covid: Dalston’s Rio cinema posts a pandemic profit

08/19/202008/19/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

DESPERATELY NEEDED GOOD NEWS for Dalston’s pandemic-era cultural scene as the Rio cinema turns a profit despite being Covid-closed since late March this year

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Whitechapel©DA14: Whitechapel market Muslims / Sylhetis…. London 130814 © david.altheer@gmail,com

The sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago v the supposed silences of lockdown today

08/11/202008/12/2020 CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

CLATTERING HOOVES, clanging tram bells and the revving of motor vehicles…  East London streets were a riot of sounds in the Roaring Twenties. And

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A can of free beer for a hot day in one of Hackney’s biggest and prettiest parks

08/07/202008/08/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

FANCY A FREE BEER? Pop along to Clissold Park in Stoke Newington tomorrow Saturday and with the right app you might score a can of

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ZimArtShep The Good Shepherd © Livingstone Sango

Rare African artworks lost in Shoreditch find their place in a Hackney gallery

08/03/202010/02/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 1

  AN OLD SHOREDITCH church is the unlikely site of an extraordinary discovery: African art that has lain unseen for almost 30 years. In

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© Jeff Moore

A poet pens some lines (without any rhymes) to put us all on the pavement to the pub on time

07/08/202008/06/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

  YOU HAVE TO ADMIRE a business that works out a way to capitalise on the worst crisis to hit the world since World

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