THIS PICTURE SHOWS the door that has cost council taxpayers almost half a million pounds in lost revenue. It should for the last five
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Burger off! Hackney is now having a love affair with vegetarian food. Or is it just a fling?
* Update 010219: the Hackney Downs weekly vegan market has ceased THE PEOPLE crowding a vegan fair in Hackney, above, show the extraordinary surge
Read MoreHow Hackney police are taking on the lost boys and girls ripping the heart out of Dalston
EVERY DAY Sergeant Charlie Pilbeam switches on his office desktop in Stoke Newington police station to see what eight or nine youths have been
Read MoreA Dalston Italian festival shows how to cook pasta… and how to eat it (like we need to be told)
LIVEWIRE LONDONERS Maia Rossi and Alessia Mastroleo are fulfilling every Hackney foodie’s guilty fantasy: a pasta festival in the heart of Dalston. The eat-out
Read MoreCaribbean chain opens a Dalston branch in 2016
AN UPSCALE Caribbean restaurant promising 60 new jobs is to open in Dalston next spring 2016. Part of a chain called Turtle Bay that
Read MoreArtist Bobby Baker lights up Dalston Square
LIVELY ART exhibitions are launched in Dalston almost every week but “The Expert View” is different. It’s more public than most and it’s by
Read MoreHamlets and Hackney named new rental hotspots
SIGNS OF sanity are appearing in the London property market. The asking prices of sellers are showing a fall, albeit a tiny fall, throughout
Read MoreHow to send a message to Hackney councillors
THE LONDON HOUSING crisis – the shortage of accommodation at reasonable rents – has prompted a national organisation to ask Hackneyites about how they
Read MoreHow Dalston may yet be a foodie destination
* UPDATE: Nancys Pantry, mentioned on this page, fell victim to a serious fire and did not reopen. In autumn 2015 the site was leased to
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Who’s buying Barratt flats at Dalston Junction
ONE OF the most-opposed developments in Dalston, the Barratt Homes project at the junction, is still being criticised as a collection of undistinguished buildings
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