ANYONE WORRIED about the creeping corporatisation of Dalston should stop reading now. Pret a Manger is opening a huge shop on the site, above, in
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Farewell Mikey… Dalston’s favourite busker has sung his last song to Hackney
* UPDATE 130519: Michael Gregovich’s funeral will be held at West Ham cemetery chapel, Cemetery Road, Forest Gate E7 9DG, on Tuesday 21 May
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Olympics legacy planners have a cyclists-and-walkers idea — 7 years after the event
HURRAH, CYCLING IS TO BE BOOSTED by the people delivering the Olympics legacy to us northeast Londoners. Proposals to narrow Westfield Avenueand Montfichet Road
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Hackney finds a way for residents to stay in the European Union… get EUsed to it
HACKNEY HAS FOUND a way to give its residents easy access to the European Union. No more need to find Irish or continental ancestors,
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How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus although 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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Big bad boss bird beats up proud baby family in Victoria Park pond
THIS SERIES of photographs shows that even on the calm waters of a rustic-looking park in the capital, violence in nature is never far
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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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Omigod! Hindu campaigner demands ‘immediate’ withdrawal of Hackney designer’s swimsuit
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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Goodbye Gujarati Rasoi: another Hackney restaurant is struck off the foodie menu
JUST AS LONDON hits peak vegan, a Hackney vegetarian ’n’ vegan pathmaker restaurant puts its tables away for good. Gujarati Rasoi in Bradbury Street, Dalston N16
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