AS HACKNEY MAYOR Philip Glanville blames the Government for wrecking council budgets, the borough continues to fund a luxury imported limousine for a senior
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Merry Christmas to all — and here’s how Dalston doorsteps into the 2019 festive season
HOW DID THE IDEA OF WREATHS at Christmas happen? Who can say, is the admitedly inadequate answer of Loving Dalston. Various explanations are
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Christmas Day pubs 2019: a great year for a relaxed amble to the alehouse
A WEE CHRISSIE PRESENT for Hackneyites who like to go on a healthy walk before Christmas lunch: the Prince George is joining the barrel
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Instagrammers, the Wonder Factory is coming to Dalston to wow you with selfie opps
* Update 211219: the Wonder Factory is open. Booking A PRESS RELEASE announcing “the ultimate Instagram experience” and “marshmallow swimming pools, confetti cyclones, mirrors that
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Whitechapel Foundry can survive — and we’ll show how, say campaigners for ancient bell-maker
THE WHITECHAPEL BELL FOUNDRY, above, can continue to do what it has done for more than 400 years: make the kind of bells
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A Walthamstow revelation: what William Morris brought to Bauhaus
WILLIAM MORRIS and Bauhaus are not names that easily go together. The great Victorian-era English designer was in love with not just craft
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How Hackney means green. Just don’t ask the cost of the American saloon specially for the Speaker
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 Dalston venues crash, indies and chains cook up new ventures
* Update November 2019: not long since the F Cooke sign, top, was reinstated, the virtually vegetarian Dudleys at 123 Kingsland High Street E8
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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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