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Welcome to Hackney libraries, where safety is a worry as violent users rant among the books

SINCE THIS WEBSITE’S revelations in June 2016 of eruptions of violence in Hackney libraries, more stories have come out. Loving Dalston has been speaking to …

Acorn pub Queensbridge and Whiston rds 040716 © DavidAltheer [at] gmail.com

This little-known pub will attract few to save it. But to a small Hackney community, it is precious

* UPDATE: The applicant has amended its planning application to include a pub FEW PEOPLE would mourn the closing of the Acorn. It is the …

The Hackney carnival that in some small ways might just have the edge on the great Notting Hill

LOVING DALSTON was an early fan of the Hackney Carnival. When it started, local news outlets tended with some snootiness to ignore it. Anyone who …

Saatchi Gallery KIngs Rd Chelsea 17 aug 2011 © David.altheer[at ]gmail.com

Have a heart: how East London galleries and art promoters cope with the property boom

Melina Payne, right, gets the inside story on the struggle of those trying to make a not-for-profit operation work for artist and art-lover alike THE HOUSING …

Sign language trips up big business as this Dalston website takes it on over public space

SINCE IT BURST on to the northeast London media scene, Loving Dalston has had much success in exposing failings in the private and public sectors. …

Step aside, dog-walkers, joggers, parents, toddlers, feminism’s returning to Hackney Downs

FEMINISM HAS BEEN having a hard time with millennials, which is probably to be expected given the struggle of campaigners of earlier generations, latterly the …

Thomas Heatherwick-designed hop-on, hop-off Routemaster-successor bus Feb 2012 © david.altheer[ at ] gmail.com

Hop-on, hop-off bus concept goes back to the depot as Routemaster doors lose their point

THE HOP-ON, HOP-OFF bus concept was a boon to Hackneyites and other users of the 38 bus travelling the route to Islington, the West End …

John Leiper shows Pearly Queen Beer Company’s newly launched Honey Pale Ale @ Dalston London 20 Aug 2016 © david.altheer[ at ] gmail.com

We’re in the honey: ale and hopeful as a hive of sweetness and beer sets up in a Hackney pop-up

IF THERE’S one thing that gets John Leiper and Meetal Patel buzzing it’s bees. The other is English ale, so one day over a pint, …