AFTER LOVING DALSTON asked a London builders’ supplies chain why a customer had felt it necessary to buy every one of its rat-catching glue
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Hungry for a bargain? Around Hackney Rishi’s dishies are keeping eateries busy-busy
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
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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Out of horror comes help: a group sets up in Hackney to aid the needy through the pandemic
BEFORE COVID-19, the help group Haggerston Plates did not exist. By June it had 180 volunteers, delivering hundreds of hot meals to
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The sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago v the supposed silences of lockdown today
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
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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Rare African artworks lost in Shoreditch find their place in a Hackney gallery
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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Life in the lockdown: Hackney makes a session healthy for pubgoers
How safe is it to pop out for a drink? Clara Murray, right, sets off for a taste of drinking lockdown style PERSPEX
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London Fields Lido reopens — but you should put your swimming togs on before you arrive
* Update 25 July 20: the Lido reopens. Changing rooms not available for use. HACKNEY’S LIDO WILL NOT OPEN tomorrow even though
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A poet pens some lines (without any rhymes) to put us all on the pavement to the pub on time
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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