FANCY A FREE DRINK? Head for super Hackney pub the Virgin Queen. This boutique boozer is offering Loving Dalston readers their drink of choice.
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The big stink hits Dalston. If you’ve not smelt it, don’t worry because you soon will
HACKNEY PEOPLE are causing a big stink — nothing new there, then — but this time it’s not a protest to save anything.
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Don’t use the shower — pee in it, two Hackney pool instructors tell schoolchildren
* UPDATE June 2019: Staff have told Loving Dalston that two swimming instructors have been informally reprimanded. Pool-operator GLL has not given an official
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Enough of polluting cars turning our district into dirty Dalston, say locals
• The noise and pollution from traffic into Dalston have driven people living near Ridley Road to start a campaign to green the streets.
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Thousands of fish die as killer river sends airless water down from Tottenham through Hackney
THE LEE IS A RIVER of death this long weekend as the bloated bodies of roach, carp, dace and other fish float down from
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Euro elections? How to use the vote in perhaps your last chance to influence the EU
EVERY FIVE YEARS we citizens of European Union countries get the chance to vote people into the European Parliament. Sadly, few Londoners know
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Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City
THIS STUNNING MOVING SCULPTURE is more than a lightshow, it’s a stressbuster. Workers in the City or in nearby Shoreditch are invited to
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Gentrification advances as Pret a Manger lines up a big site in the heart of Dalston
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 210519: Michael Gregovich’s funeral, a Roman Catholic service, was held at Forest Gate cemetery chapel E7 9DG, today, followed by a wake
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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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