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NEsign©DA20:© david.altheer@gmail.com lingering NE sign in Hackney (at the S end of the street) 060420 (poss since removed/stolen)

Signs of relief as streetwise campaigners win preservation promise from Hackney council

10/14/202002/21/2021 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

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

10/11/202010/11/2020 NEWS 0

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©DA13:© davidaltheer@gmail.com BBC London dancers @ Shoreditch festival in Hoxton St Lon N1 13 July 2013

Shoreditch loses its edge, say the number crunchers. Time to start-up in another place?

10/02/202010/03/2020 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

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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thames©DA17: graffiti @ Leamouth nr East India Dock Basin on approach to Trinity Buoy Wharf by Thames Newham, London E8 060914 ©

Tune into the music of the millennium in creekside Poplar for an odd online talk-in

09/25/202009/25/2020 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS 0

  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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Patrick Vernon, MBE ex cllr, Hackney London 180415 © DavidAltheer@gmail.com

Ex-Hackney councillor soon to top the bestseller lists with a book hailing black Brits

09/24/202011/10/2020 COUNCIL, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

* Update 101120: an exhibition in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, promoting the book, was vandalised A FORMER HACKNEY COUNCILLOR is about to become a bestselling author. Loving

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rat Dalston E8 © RowenaBond@me.com

Woman buys all of a Hackney store’s glue traps to save rats from a horrible death

09/14/202004/01/2021 Hackney, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

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

09/10/202009/10/2020 BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, FOOD, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

  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

08/19/202008/19/2020 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

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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PubOnPark©DA14:© david.altheer@gmail.com Pub On The Park London Fields e8 160814

Out of horror, help: a group sets up in Hackney to aid the needy through the pandemic

08/15/202001/19/2021 Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

    BEFORE COVID-19, the help group Haggerston Plates did not exist. By June it had 180 volunteers, delivering hundreds of hot meals to

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Whitechapel©DA14: Whitechapel market Muslims / Sylhetis…. London 130814 © david.altheer@gmail,com

The sounds of Whitechapel almost a century ago v the supposed silences of lockdown today

08/11/202008/12/2020 CULTURE, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

CLATTERING HOOVES, clanging tram bells and the revving of motor vehicles…  East London streets were a riot of sounds in the Roaring Twenties. And

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