What is it about the British, bureaucracy and duplicity? HERBIE RUSSELL, left, tells the story of a talented footballer-turned-Army officer and a century-old wound that a government
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Rio board quits and suggests peace meeting to save the Dalston cinema from Covid crisis
* Update 030720: the Rio board has quit and proposed an online meeting with the protesters to discuss a new four-person board. The present
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Rio revolutionaries tell cinema board to quit, as they attempt a Dalston boardroom coup
CIVIL WAR has broken out at the Rio. In the heat of the Covid-19 crisis, a protest group is attempting a boardroom coup at
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In the market for a buy or a rental? Hackney may be ripe for the picking
IS THIS THE TIME to try to swap the shackles of rent for the bonds of mortgage? As we ponder life after the coronavirus
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Locals furious as buyer of Haggerston people’s baths demands 2 more storeys
THE BATTLE to save the swimming pool in the Haggerston Baths buildings has been lost. The hall that accommodates the 15m pool will never again echo
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Only 14 and this Dalston teenager is already one of many Londoners working from home
How do secondary school students cope with being banned from seeing their friends? ELIZA WESTON talks about her online life. And teachers WHEN
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Happy to be confined in Hackney, where millennials sweetly bring offerings of veg
Even cat videos can help a ’vulnerable’ to cope in a time of international crisis. PATTY RICHARDS ARMSTRONG, left, fesses up to that and worse
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Locked in: Dalston bike man Dan tells how he survived the disease sweeping the world
Dalston businessman DANIEL WESTON followed safe procedure yet started to feel ill. One night he realised he had caught what he most feared: coronavirus
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Coronavirus worries for ultra-traditional faith minority communities in Hackney
FEARS ARE GROWING for traditional religious communities in Hackney that social-distancing failures are putting followers at coronavirus risk. Celebrations of the Purim festival by Orthodox
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Helping street people in Hackney and Tottenham to stay safely clean in a time of virus
A NORTH LONDON businessman has created his own hand sanitiser to help rough sleepers and food banks in Hackney and Tottenham to cope with
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