* Update 060419: As good as Covent Garden is the verdict on the performance Loving Dalston saw last weekend. The singing was stunning, especially
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How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus but it can help
HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecturer and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s
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Replace your bankrupt builder… oh, and find £3 million: life as a social entrepreneur in Hackney
You may not know Auro Foxcroft but you may have occasionally wondered about the Tube carriages stranded on a rooftop in Shoreditch. The social
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School meals are getting healthier yet in Hackney students still pay to eat junk food
BY THE TIME HACKNEY CHILDREN finish primary school, one in four will be obese. And when they enter their teens, half of them will
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In the pink financially? Take tea with Andy Warhol in Stokey — figuratively speaking
STRUGGLING FOR THAT SPECIAL Valentine’s Day treat for a loved one? How about afternoon tea with Andy Warhol? That’s “with” the celebrity pop icon
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Top Boy, top grime; yep, it’s gotta be another TV series about gang crime
A TV DRAMA about gangs and drugs… now where might they film that? Why, Hackney, of course. Gentrifiers (as if anyone would admit to
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How a little poetic justice from a Hackney woman can foodbank a little extra for the needy this Christmas
POETRY… as a Christmas present? In a small book? It’s a hard sell. Add that the poems are about food banks and the product
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Hackney boozers its way to the top: more new pubs than anywhere else in the land
MORE PUBS have been opening in Hackney than anywhere else in the UK. Sixty-five have opened since 2010, a rise attributable to the influx
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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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A UK premiere in Hackney: how music hath power to soothe the savaged brain
As Dalston hosts the UK premiere of the film Lady Lovely Lute, producer-director Laura Stratford, above, says she hopes the documentary will help to
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