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Dalston Mods @Mildmay_Reunion © NA

Mod rule is coming to Dalston as mods return… or is it? Scooterists say they’ll give E8 a miss

08/22/201908/23/2019 CULTURE, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

DALSTON SHOULD BE RESONATING some time this bank-hol weekend to a great tock-tock, a brmmm-brmmming, a hum-humming. No need for alarm: it would not,

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stress©DA19: stressbuster in foyer of Uncommon Liverpool Street, Liverpool Street, City.The artwork-stressbuster measures a user’s stress © david.altheer@gmail.com 160519

Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City

05/21/201905/21/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FASHION, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

  THIS STUNNING MOVING SCULPTURE is more than a lightshow, it’s a stressbuster.  Workers in the City or in nearby Shoreditch are invited to

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© Sera Ulger

Omigod! Hindu campaigner demands ‘immediate’ withdrawal of Hackney designer’s swimsuit

02/01/201902/06/2019 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

FREE SPEECH IS integral to this country: the right to criticise the government; the Church; our head of State, Queen Elizabeth. Naturally, there are

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AndrewAlmond©DA0418: Bolt bike restoration and fashion store owner Andrew Almond at his Stoke Newington N16 0AH store on a restored motorcycle 130418© david.altheer@gmail.com

Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland

05/31/201806/01/2018 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And

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ChrisWreath©DA: Christmas @ Hackney London © david,altheer@gmail,com

Wreathed in glory and jollity… or homely Hackney Christmas competitiveness?

01/05/201812/18/2020 CULTURE, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

  HANGING A CHRISTMAS WREATH on your door is like a henna tattoo: it adds colour and decoration but is not permanent. And like

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HackneyGT cycle clothes 2016

Devised in London and made in Lancashire, a cyclostyle label riding on the Hackney word

06/28/201607/25/2016 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FASHION, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch

MOST PEOPLE occasionally have lightbulb moments. Then the idea fades. Not for self-starters. One of them, music promoter and DJ Russ Jones thought of

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LonFields14c: London Fields e8 160814 © david.altheer@gmail.com

London Fields is no walk in the park for Hackney: hipster heaven costs the council £140k

06/21/201606/25/2016 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, COUNCIL, CULTURE, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 1

LONDON FIELDS has cost Hackney council £139,970 it never planned to spend. The park’s popularity on sunny evenings and days, especially with barbecuing and

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Hackney police and mountain bikes © DavidAltheer[at]gmail.com

Hackney rides in with fixie bicycles for cops 

03/31/201603/31/2016 COUNCIL, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch, TRANSPORT

HACKNEY COPS are being given fixies to make them hipper and fitter. It’s part of the Labour borough’s rebranding (see We can be an

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London Fields garage owner Adem Camel’s NissAan sports car with personalised Dalston no plateLon E8 030915 © DavidAltheer[at]gmail.com

Is this the hottest little number in Dalston?

10/01/2015 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FASHION, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS

CHELSEA’S Roman Abramovich has the number plate VIP 1 on one of his limos, Hackney-born TV-sleb Lord Sugar flashes AMS 1 (his initials) on

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Out in East London a splash of colour and style

06/16/201506/16/2015 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, FASHION, LATEST, NEWS

WHEN A world-famous fashionista calls your collection breathtaking you know your decision to go into business was probably the right one. Karen Millen added that

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