DRIVERS IN HACKNEY will be fined £130 if they let their engines idle after being asked to switch them off, Loving Dalston can exclusively
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Hackney council is splashing out £4.5 million on a new pool for its popular lido
SPLASH! AN EMAIL PLOPS into Loving Dalston’s email tank from Hackney council: London Fields Lido is to get a new, separate learner pool. If
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Christmas Day pubs 2019: a great year for a relaxed amble to the alehouse
A WEE CHRISSIE PRESENT for Hackneyites who like to go on a healthy walk before Christmas lunch: the Prince George is joining the barrel
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Can this sign in Hackney help to save people from slavery, an ancient horror that still haunts the modern world?
YOU MAY HAVE BEEN mystified by billboards like the one shown above that are popping up all over London. One has been erected in
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A free drink in Hackney: just say the word at the bar and it will be yours
* UPDATE Monday 290719: this offer has now ended FANCY A FREE DRINK? Head for super Hackney pub the Virgin Queen.
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Stressed out? A lightshow by the Chemical Brothers maestro comes to the City
THIS STUNNING MOVING SCULPTURE is more than a lightshow, it’s a stressbuster. Workers in the City or in nearby Shoreditch are invited to
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How to make pubs work in the East End: you may not need a bus but it can help
HOW DO YOU go from being a university lecturer and spare-time restorer and seller of old buses to the owner of a business that’s
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Replace your bankrupt builder… oh, and find £3 million: life as a social entrepreneur in Hackney
You may not know Auro Foxcroft but you may have occasionally wondered about the Tube carriages stranded on a rooftop in Shoreditch. The social
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Hackney boozers its way to the top: more new pubs than anywhere else in the land
MORE PUBS have been opening in Hackney than anywhere else in the UK. Sixty-five have opened since 2010, a rise attributable to the influx
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Battle to save the Acorn pub in Haggerston loses out to the wrecker’s ball
THE ACORN, THE VICTORIAN PUB opposite Haggerston Park in south Hackney, is to be demolished. Loving Dalston first alerted Hackneyites, in 2016, to the
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