WHEN YOU’VE LOST five children, suffered painful medical negligence, survived strangling by a man you tried to help, had a hip-replacement operation before middle
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Mod rule is coming to Dalston as mods return… or is it? Scooterists say they’ll give E8 a miss
DALSTON SHOULD BE RESONATING some time this bank-hol weekend to a great tock-tock, a brmmm-brmmming, a hum-humming. No need for alarm: it would not,
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What do we do with Dalston Foodhall charity? Hackney church won’t say
WHEN MARKS and SPENCER’s Foodhall in Dalston announced it had chosen as its charity partner an outfit whose charity commission statement raved about Jesus
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Fancy a swim in the Leedo? No, ta: you are risking your health in London’s dirty old Lee
TO A LEADING GREEN CAMPAIGNER, the Lee is England’s most polluted river, and few stretches look dirtier than the junk-filled section that run by
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I’m from northeast London and I’m pledging allegiance to the caliphate
EVERY YEAR FOR ONE WEEKEND, and usually it happens to be one of the hottest of the summer, I leave my Ilford home for
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A free drink in Hackney: just say the word at the bar and it will be yours
* UPDATE Monday 290719: this offer has now ended FANCY A FREE DRINK? Head for super Hackney pub the Virgin Queen.
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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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