* 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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The terrorist in the town hall: he’s in jail now but worked for Hackney council for many years
* Correction 240818: Hackney council says that the plane hoaxer featured in an update to this story did not work in any of its
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Dalston’s Ridley market is holding to its roots and Hackney is reviving Kingsland says council
* UPDATE: Kingsland Market today Saturday 27 July 2018 opened on the site of the former Waste Market RIDLEY ROAD MARKET is being boosted
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As arts come to the rescue of Hackney property buyers, others mumble: Gentrification!
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A support group re-emerges to help living victims of the deadly postcode rivalries in Hackney
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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