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Holed: Hackney prestige flats and shops development drills down to a dramatic lift shock

12/06/2021 ARCHITECTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 1

THE FLATS-RETAIL-OFFICES development was beset with problems. Among them were walls that started to crack, mis-fitting windows, bits that blew away when the wind

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sainsbo©DA20q:© david.altheer@gmail.com coronavirus Covid-19 queuing at Sainsbury's in Dalston, Hackney E8, 250320

Are we Covid-safe? No, not Hackney and other parts of NE London as winter nears

10/13/202110/24/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, Shoreditch 0

NOW THAT COVID is no longer a threat, your life is pretty well back to normal, right?  Wrong, if you live in a northeast

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trees©DA21: david.altheer@gmail.com council planting of Scots/Caledonian (?) pine trees in Martel Place, Dalston, Hackney E8. Some dying 240921

Pining for beauty: Hackney does its Dalston best but then…

10/03/2021 COUNCIL, LATEST, NEWS 0

HACKNEYITES ARE FORTUNATE to have a borough council that is more eco-minded than most in London. Sometimes, however, little things can go wrong, as when

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sainsbo©DA20q:© david.altheer@gmail.com coronavirus Covid-19 queuing at Sainsbury's in Dalston, Hackney E8, 250320

Is Hackney failing to get thousands of ‘extremely vulnerable’ over-60s to take the vaccine?

07/12/202112/23/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

A MONTH AGO Hackney council alarmed readers of this news site with the disturbing pandemic revelation that 17,000 of the most at-risk residents —

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VandA©DA21gus: V&A East director Gus Casely-Hayford at VandA East PR event in Here East (ex Olympic 2012 media centre) in front of Kehinde Wiley's 2020 portrait of Melissa Thompso met in Ridley Rd Market, Dalston, 300621

This man could be the messiah to launch art from the East End to a rave new world

07/01/202107/02/2021 ARCHITECTURE, BUSINESS & DEVELOPMENT, CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

BEYONCÉ, PJ HARVEY, Ridley Road Market, Frank Lloyd Wright, Dalston and, above all, the East End — Gus Casely-Hayford dropped enough names and voiced

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Ride-on row as free-speech fan complains to a Hackney man’s employer about cycling views peddled on Twitter

06/21/202106/27/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS, TRANSPORT 1

THE BRITISH PRESS has traditionally been a guardian of our liberties, especially freedom of speech.  So it is surprising that a distinguished journalist has

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Selfish 17,000 threaten Freedom Day delay as Covid cases surge in Hackney among minority of refusers

06/12/202107/28/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, HACKNEY SECRETS, NEWS 0

* Update 210621: despite government promises that it would stick to what became known as Freedom Day, the latest stage in the schedule of

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Silence from officialdom over Hackney job only for ‘Black… and People of Colour’

06/10/202106/10/2021 COUNCIL, CULTURE, LATEST, NATURE & CONSERVATION, NEWS 0

OFFERING JOBS ONLY to people from under-represented groups is unlawful because it is discriminatory. So says the law. Yet that is what a Hackney

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Carleen©DA21: © david.altheer@gmail.com, overpainted art work of N Lon artist Carleen De Sözer commissioned by Ali Hussain for wall of Dalston Minicabs, Winchester Place, Hackney E8 2PG, 240421

Whiteout! How fake news wiped away some of Hackney’s finest street art

05/10/202105/10/2021 CULTURE, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 0

SOME OF THE FINEST ART SEEN on the streets of London has been wiped out by fake news. Hip-hop Raised Me, a striking collage

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HackneyTH16: Hackney E8 010416 © David.Altheer[at]gmail.com

They bestride Hackney’s swanky corridors of power. And they earn nothing less than £100k

03/03/202107/07/2021 COUNCIL, Hackney, LATEST, NEWS 1

* UPDATE 060721: Mark Carroll, of Essex County Council, has been appointed the new chief executive of Hackney, replacing Tim Shields, who has retired

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