• The noise and pollution from traffic into Dalston have driven people living near Ridley Road to start a campaign to green the streets.
Read MoreParking: London postcodes the thieves like best
WHERE IN London can a car be parked on the street without the owner having to worry? In zones 1 and 2, probably nowhere.
Read MoreHigh-rise may replace Dalston’s Kingsland Centre
* Criterion will present its Kingsland plans at Stoke Newington Town Hall, Church Street N16 OJR on Tues 25 Feb 2014 at 6.30pm. It
Read MoreWill Ridley Road be the real star of this TV show?
AH, THE GLAMOUR of working in the film business. The picture shows actors and crew queueing for lunch in the lush surroundings of the
Read MoreA new landmark shines on to Central Hackney
PARIS has its Eiffel Tower, London the Eye and Sydney the Opera House-Harbour Bridge. Now central Hackney has what the council’s press office calls “the
Read MoreHackney glams up as Mare St rolls out red carpet
THE NAME of our borough continues its march into the world of celebrity as the Hackney Picturehouse becomes “a destination”. The poor loves in
Read MoreDowntown in Dalston, a hint of the Romany
EVERY WEEK I take £5 to Ridley Road market in Dalston, Hackney, London E8 2LH, to spend on seasonal food, and on Friday I tell you what I
Read MorePosters provide touching link to doomed cinema
THIS 1914 handbill for a propaganda film screening in Clapton a few months after the start of World War One was uncovered in a
Read MoreWaiter, delivery to the bus driver. Now!
PICTURE the scene. You are wrapped in one of the comfortable seats on a new hop-on, hop-off Boris bus, bowling along Balls Pond Road,
Read MoreBrought to booklet: the trees of Springfield Park
THE WOOD and grassed slopes of Springfield Park rising gently from the north bank of the River Lea in Stamford Hill are one of
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