* Update, August 2018: No more than 30 swifts were counted over the Loving Dalston office this summer at any one time, which seemed
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See no evil, hear no evil: fiasco of the inaudible Hackney council public planning meeting
MOST HACKNEYITES have never seen local democracy in action at the town hall. If they’d gone to the latest public meeting they’d probably never
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Marks and Spencer churchy charity choice raises unholy doubts after Dalston opening
WHEN MARKS AND SPENCER returned to Dalston after decades away from Kingsland High Street, it decided to choose a charity partner that was local.
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Pub world buzzes as brewing multinational gets a generous taste of Tottenham ale
* UPDATE June 2018: Beaverton has sold Heineken 49 per cent of its shares. Beaverton founder Logan Plant said his brewery would remain “independent and autonomous”
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Motorcycle dreams: from Stoke Newington on a Czech bike to a brewery in pilsner’s homeland
STOKE NEWINGTON biker businessman Andrew Almond is doing what the worst in-midlife-crisis Londoner can but dream of: riding a classic motorcycle across Europe. And
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Hope at last for ejected Hackney youth club as work starts on new premises
WORK HAS STARTED on a block of flats and offices that will include bespoke basement for a Dalston youth club. It will mean months
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Hit Dalston restaurant Fed By Water sunk by water problem plans new venue
* UPDATE July 2018: Fed By Water has moved temporarily to the narrow site of the former pub next to Dalston Kingsland Overground, immediately northwest
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Topsy-turvy voting in Hackney election as woman is allowed to use husband’s polling card
HOW EASY IS IT to vote twice in elections? Very easy, to judge from an incident in Hackney in the 2018 local elections. On
Read MoreClowning around: another year, another festival of idiocy as an old art form shows its staying power
CLOWNS USED TO BE a highlight of circuses. But then cinema and TV made them into sinister figures and they never quite recovered. The
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As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!
* UPDATE 21 August 2018: The venue is due to open next month September 2018 and its name shall be EartH — no, the
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