THREE PARKED VEHICLES WERE DAMAGED when a four-wheel-drive SUV whacked them as it rolled erratically and noisily along Colvestone Crescent, Dalston E8, late last
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Best woodworker in Britain? Dalston’s Emma thinks she might just nail it
* UPDATE 221020: The series described here, The Chop, has been, uhm, chopped, since a national newspaper noticed that some of a male contestant’s tattoos
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Signs of relief as streetwise campaigners win preservation promise from Hackney council
HERITAGE LOVERS HAVE WON their campaign to persuade Hackney council to save a slice of the borough’s history. The council has promised to preserve
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Switch off that engine — or face an £80 fine as Hackney ups its crackdown on cars
DRIVERS IN HACKNEY will be fined £80 if they needlessly let their engines idle after being asked to switch them off. The penalty, a rise
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Shoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?
WHAT, TWO DISTRICTS in London are more enterprising than Shoreditch and Hoxton? Yep, Holborn-St Pancras, and Islington South-Finsbury have more small businesses per person
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Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in
THE MOST TRULY FANTASTIC LIVE music performance in this city, a piece 20 years into a 1,000-year run, is celebrated with a discussion streaming
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Ex-Hackney councillor soon to top the bestseller lists with a book hailing black Brits
A FORMER HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is about to become a bestselling author. Loving Dalston does not normally make predictions but Patrick Vernon’s non-fiction book, which he
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Woman buys all of a Hackney store’s glue traps to save rats from a horrible death
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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