A GROUP TO HELP PEOPLE affected by knife crime has been relaunched by a charity created in memory of a 19-year-old trainee plumber stabbed
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I planted a tiny garden in Dalston — and it became a TV star. (As for me, I’m not holding my breath)
* Update June 2018: Gardeners’ World on BBC2 will announce the winner on Friday 150618 On a whim, Mike Spezzano entered his crazily exotic
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Hackney council admits its no-car policy is somewhat broken and is being repaired
DEMOCRACY, FIASCO OR FLOP? Your decide. Hackney council has admitted to Loving Dalston that it’s no-car-space planning policy has been abused. The admission supports
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Marks and Spencer calls on a Hackney pirate girl to snip the silk for a grand Dalston opening
AN 11-year-old Hackney schoolgirl will officially open the Marks and Spencer Foodhall next to Dalston Kingsland tomorrow (see update above). Jessica Dadzie, of Hackney,
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What a Freemason openness drive revealed about Hackney planning councillors: a mason-free zone
THE FREEMASONS have an image problem. Their clubs — lodges, they call them — are considered secret societies. The masons’ main site says, however, that
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Will M and S Foodhall spark a boost for Dalston, even lead to the return of the department store?
PUSH YOUR WAY THROUGH the crowd that Marks and Spencer hopes will mill about in Kingsland High Street next Wednesday and you may pocket
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The carnivore is over: hipster Hackney to lead world in getting citizens to give up meat, dairy and fish
HACKNEY COUNCIL WORKERS queueing for breakfast in the staff canteen yesterday were shocked to find meat and fish off the menu. Cooks told hungry
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Drama down the Ditch: two Edinburgh hits coming to the town hall saved as an arts centre
* Update 250418: The Nature Of Forgetting impressed at tonight’s press preview. Loving Dalston can recommend this play, along with the venue which, in a
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Ghostly visitor spooks concert as it haunts pianist in ancient mansion near a Hackney graveyard
THE PIANIST was well into the notoriously hard-to-play piano composition when concert-goers noticed a balloon eerily descending towards him. With sinister precision, it stopped
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Hackney, where more children avoid the dentist than anywhere else, says a survey
MORE THAN HALF of the children living in England, 42%, do not visit a dentist even once a year, despite its being free for
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