HACKNEY COUNCIL HAS TOLD Loving Dalston of a range of measures that will keep its place among London’s most environmentally progressive boroughs. Jon Burke,
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The Hackney café scene heats up: as a Dalston venue sadly closes, indies and chains bravely cook up new ventures
ANOTHER CLOSURE has shaken Dalston’s turbulent restaurant scene at the same time as other eateries — some of them independent-owned, others chains —
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Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?
YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in
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Hopes for 3 Dalston restos to be in the final serve for a tasty handout from Deliveroo
DELIVEROO, standby of many a time-pressed Londoner, has come up with a neat promotion: restaurant awards. What’s new about that? Little, it’s true, but
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She lost five children — now Yassin is warning the world about a woman-destroying condition
WHEN YOU’VE LOST five children, suffered painful medical negligence, survived strangling by a man you tried to help, had a hip-replacement operation before middle
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Mod rule is coming to Dalston as mods return… or is it? Scooterists say they’ll give E8 a miss
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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What do we do with Dalston Foodhall charity? Hackney church won’t say
WHEN MARKS and SPENCER’s Foodhall in Dalston announced it had chosen as its charity partner an outfit whose charity commission statement raved about Jesus
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Fancy a swim in the Leedo? No, ta: you are risking your health in London’s dirty old Lee
TO A LEADING GREEN CAMPAIGNER, the Lee is England’s most polluted river, and few stretches look dirtier than the junk-filled section that run by
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I’m from northeast London and I’m pledging allegiance to the caliphate
EVERY YEAR FOR ONE WEEKEND, and usually it happens to be one of the hottest of the summer, I leave my Ilford home for
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A free drink in Hackney: just say the word at the bar and it will be yours
* UPDATE Monday 290719: this offer has now ended FANCY A FREE DRINK? Head for super Hackney pub the Virgin Queen.
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