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Fair fa’ a sonsie haggis in a Hackney market

YOU DON’T have to be Scots to celebrate Burns Night, 25 January 2014. You do have to like good food and great revelry. Big ask, …

Personal shop pulls big money into Shoreditch

UNIVERSITY dropouts may take cheer from the story of entrepreneur Kieran O’Neill, above. His online fashion business, Thread, has finalised almost £2 million of backing …

Criminal tales from an old culture come to London

LONDONERS don’t often get the chance to learn personally about the world’s most continuous culture. But next month February 2014 that opportunity arises when an …

The Arcola gives Hackney a Turkish lesson

TURKS HAVE been part of the Hackney scene for generations. Some people say that their, and Kurdish, entrepreneurialism is the best thing to happen to …

Is Mandela still worth a few votes for Hackney?

ALMOST a month after the death of Nelson Mandela, Hackney council is to jump back on the bandwagon. Apparently the multimillion-dollar funeral attended by world leaders …

Cheers! You can go to a pub on Christmas Day

CHRISTMAS DAY pub openings can be hard to find out about. Happily for you, Loving Dalston has for several years been compiling a list of …

Ping-pong for the Christmas Hackney throng

JUST ABOUT everybody can play ping-pong – or, if you prefer, table tennis or whiff-whaff – and what a great ice-breaker is the game. Which is …

Hitchockian haunt will live with the multiplex

IN THE push to open a nine-screen, 1,200-seat cinema in the heart of Walthamstow next year 2014, the endangered EMD former Granada cinema has not …

Hackney loses Kate Malone fish statues to Leyton

HACKNEY HAS lost the four fish sculptures created by local internationally admired artist Kate Malone for a pond near the River Lea Navigation. Entitled Rise …

Hackney ghost bikes inspire a Clapton playwright

THE GHOST BIKE started to haunt the scene of cycle accidents in England in the mid-Noughties and now East London has far too many of …

Fair fa’ a sonsie haggis in a Hackney market

YOU DON’T have to be Scots to celebrate Burns Night, 25 January 2014. You do have to like good food and great revelry. Big ask, …

Personal shop pulls big money into Shoreditch

UNIVERSITY dropouts may take cheer from the story of entrepreneur Kieran O’Neill, above. His online fashion business, Thread, has finalised almost £2 million of backing …

Shakespearo, hero: how Hackney will Bard it up

LAND IN Shoreditch that has been languishing unloved for years is on the verge of giving Hackney a world-beating heritage site. The 1-hectare block is …

Copyright cops sail to aid of East London creatives

THE MANY media professionals, photographers, writers, designers and others who create products will be pleased that a police unit has been formed specifically to target …