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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Rio 3! the Dalston cinema gets to work on planning for a vital extra screen
THE RIO is to get a third screen. It will be in the attic of the Kingsland High Street movie house, so long as
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A pulsing new Hackney venue — best be quick before the developers take over
IT’S UNLIKELY THAT MANY BUSINESSES have a job position entitled “Head of Vibe”. If they do, you’d imagine they’d be either a sad assemblage
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Happy Hackney birthday, Arcola: 20 years at the cutting edge of London theatre
WHEN LEYLA NAZLI and Mehmet Ergen started the Arcola in 2000 they could hardly have imagined that the venue would become a destination venue for theatre
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Ride-on! Stoke Newington attitude comes to the aid of a Hackney cop in hot pursuit
AS ALICE ROBERTS was playing tennis in Clissold Park, above, one chilly afternoon this week, three youths on hire bicycles caught her eye. Something
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