RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted by Hackney council, and the old Kingsland Waste is to be revived. Investment councillor Guy Nicholson said that the
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Hackney moves swiftly: not in the time sense but still, good news for these magnificent flying machines
THE EDITOR OF Loving Dalston is also a nature conservationist who has been campaigning to save an extraordinary little bird from the worst features
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See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting
MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never
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Marks and Spencer churchy charity choice raises unholy doubts after Dalston opening
WHEN MARKS AND SPENCER returned to Dalston after decades away from Kingsland High Street, it decided to choose a charity partner that was local.
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Pub world buzzes with stories that a multinational fancies a taste of a Tottenham brewery
LONDONERS HAVE warmly embraced the concept of craft beer. Perhaps they should think of it as crafty beer. More and more small businesses that
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
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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Hope at last for ejected Hackney youth club as work starts on new premises
WORK HAS STARTED on a block of flats and offices that will include bespoke basement for a Dalston youth club. It will mean months
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Hit Dalston restaurant Fed By Water sunk by water problem plans new venue
* UPDATE July 2018: Fed By Water has moved temporarily to the narrow site of the former pub next to Dalston Kingsland Overground, immediately northwest
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Topsy-turvy voting in Hackney election as woman is allowed to use husband’s polling card
HOW EASY IS IT to vote twice in elections? Very easy, to judge from an incident in Hackney in the 2018 local elections. On
Read MoreClowning around: another year, another festival of idiocy as an old art form shows its staying power
CLOWNS USED TO BE a highlight of circuses. But then cinema and TV made them into sinister figures and they never quite recovered. The
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