Loving Dalston

MYSTERY OF £187k HACKNEY PAYOUT

2011-07-27T03:53:00.001-07:00

Council HQ: Whoops! Who left the door open? Why did executive leave with bulging pockets after apology over Conservative mayoral candidacy? AS Hackney council embarks on staff cuts and other reductions to its annual budget, Loving Dalston has learnt that a senior officer walked away with almost £200,000 for less than two years’ work.Belinda Black, whose job title was corporate director (

NEW TIME SIGNS AT DALSTON JUNCTION

2011-07-23T03:52:00.000-07:00

THE timetable-board displays at Dalston Junction and other East London Line stations have been replaced, as this site reported and on the day, 23 July 2011, that TfL told Loving Dalston they would. See how they run: much easier now with new displays on the Ell TfL has still not revealed to this site the cost of the software, provided by Thales, a British defence and transport electronics

MOVIE STARS IN A DALSTON CAR PARK AGAIN

2011-07-21T15:43:00.000-07:00

Film crew in Dalston wait for action THE STARS have been out in Hackney again. Life’s Too Short, a Ricky Gervais comedy, has been under production in Dalston. Taking part in the six-part series are English actors Warwick Davis and Jo Enright, and Americans Johnny Depp* and Steve Carell.Davis is just under a metre tall and in this case it is not discriminatory to point that out.Loving Dalston

DALSTON GARDEN FACES NEW THREAT

2011-07-19T00:47:00.000-07:00

Friendly haven in the noisy heart of Dalston will be cycle-jogging-walkway New growth: the Eastern Curve garden near the mural in spring last year DOUBTS about the future of the welcoming Eastern Curve Garden near the mural have been raised by the news that the large adjacent site will be cleared for property development.Mike Hughes, head of development for Criterion Capital, which owns the

DALSTON: BIG MONEY MAKES ITS MOVE

2011-07-18T00:38:00.000-07:00

Profits in store: Kingsland Centre from Martel Place off Dalston Lane Goodbye Matalan building, Hello new pedestrian alleyway BIG MONEY is about to makes its next move in the heart of Dalston. The Kingsland Centre car park will become a hive of offices and shops, along with the flats that are already built on a site whose transport links and City proximity has long had developers drooling.That

BUSKERS BLOWING IN THE VORTEX

2011-07-14T09:55:00.000-07:00

How many Cs must a man miss before you call him a busker? The answer's in E8 Let me lead you through the streets of London town: Oli Kasteel-Hare outside Downstairs @ The Vortex ONE OF the world’s top jazz clubs is to host a festival for London’s buskers in its downstairs bar. Buskers’ Day will be held on Sunday 24 July 2010 in Downstairs @ The Vortex, below the club in Gillett Square,

IS THERE GOLD IN THEM THAR GARDENS?

2011-07-06T23:58:00.000-07:00

Going underground to enlarge a house: a rich-people's trend comes to NE London The early 19th-century house at no 42 NORTH Londoners walking from Islington to Dalston may have been intrigued by what looks the creation of a private swimming pool in a Mildmay Grove South backyard. All it seems to need is water.But the house at the corner where that street meets Mildmay Park will soon be sharing

ON SET WITH THE REV TOM HOLLANDER

2011-07-06T00:42:00.000-07:00

London’s godly TV sitcom returns to its spiritual home in Shoreditch Tom Hollander gets out of the way as Steve Evets (he’s from Manchester, you know) advances towards Loving Dalston’s resourceful paparazzo SHOREDITCH’S hit comedy, Rev, has returned to base. Filming the second series of the Bafta-winning slow-burner has resumed at St Leonard’s church in Shoreditch High Street, London E1

HACKNEY CUTS £44m AS IT LOSES £28m

2011-06-28T03:52:00.000-07:00

Council failed to retrieve millions in unpaid rates over almost two decades Jules Pipe, Mayor of Hackney and leader of the Labour-majority council HACKNEY has lost £28.4 million in uncollected council tax since this form of rates was introduced in 1993. Almost £4 million of that loss occurred in the last financial year.Now the council has announced cuts totalling £44 million to its services,

A WORLD FIRST FOR SHOREDITCH?

2011-06-21T00:02:00.000-07:00

Shipping containers as designer fashion Is E2, London's most creative district,about to be boxed in by big money? TO ITS promoter, Boxpark is “the world’s first-ever pop-up mall”.To multinationals, it is a chance to cash in on “the Olympics 2012 effect”, as they term the expected jetloads of affluent visitors.To others, it may seem the start of the end of creative Shoreditch, the final

THE LAUGH IS ON LONDON FIELDS

2011-06-19T23:13:00.000-07:00

Corbin: chuckles and cocktails Heard the one about the HR manwho launched a comedy club? PAUL CORBIN had a good job in human resources with a big corporation in the City, but something was wrong.When he celebrated a significant birthday with a party in the basement of Off Broadway just south of London Fields, he realised life had become too comfortable. It was time for a change.Someone

HOPES RISE FOR KINGSLAND HIGH ST

2011-06-15T10:15:00.000-07:00

Suheyla Aslan in Dalston Emporium: a gourmet food outlet and more HAS the second phase of Kingsland High Street’s revival started? If the first wave was the opening, just north of the Rio, of restaurants and coffee bars, prime among them Dalston Superstore, the opening of Dalston Emporium could be signalling the second.The high street between Balls Pond Road in the south and Crossway in the

BARGAINS AT A GREAT HACKNEY FETE

2011-06-13T11:02:00.000-07:00

Cockney gem: pearly king Arthur displays his clobber at this year's St Joseph's spring fair “PROBABLY the best summer fete in the world” is how St Joseph’s Hospice bills its fair this Saturday 18 June 2011.For once a touch of hype is excusable and if you’ve never been to a good village fete -- St Cross’s in Winchester, anyone? -- it may even seem true. For urban trendiness, St Joe’s fair is

HACKNEY TREE CUTS ARE ‘COSTING £100k’

2011-06-08T03:24:00.000-07:00

Happier days: Hackney trees provide a relaxing background on Springfield Hill last year Privatisation provides value for money, insists council PRIVATE contractors have planted about 4,000 trees for Hackney council -- but they are all dead or dying. And at an estimated cost of £100,000. The claims are made by Russell Miller, of the Tree Musketeers voluntary group, who adds that since January

ANATOLIA COMES TO CLISSOLD PARK

2011-06-08T00:41:00.000-07:00

Free festival will whisk you away to Turkey: just sashay up to Stoke Newington From Konya to Clissold Park: a sufi dervish whirls to the sound of superb Anatolian music WHIRLING dervishes, Ottoman marching bandsmen, oil-wrestling, chef-led cooking contest, traditional pottery, henna sessions… just a part of the Anatolian festival in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington N4 2EY, that starts on Saturday

RICH BUYERS SNAP UP HACKNEY

2011-06-04T08:36:00.000-07:00

Under construction: E2's Avant-garde flats are being bought off-plan Olympics lures more overseas property investors to Shoreditch and Dalston Kinetica: top seller MARKETING Hackney properties to rich investors in the Far East is paying off for Telford Homes.The residential builder told Loving Dalston that agents had sold more than 200 East London homes at property fairs in Singapore and

NEW TRAIN-TIME SIGNS FOR DALSTON

2011-06-01T02:50:00.000-07:00

The Junction station will get costly noticeboard improvements this summer Tourists try to decode the indicator boards at Dalston Junction THE electronic train-information noticeboards at Dalston Junction are to be replaced – and it’s going to cost you ticket-buyers and taxpayers £100,000-plus.The boards have become notorious among time-pressed commuters as they glance up at the signs to

DIANE ABBOTT TAKES THE TRAIN WHEEL

2011-05-29T23:05:00.000-07:00

Junior minister and Hackney MP lines up for a bit of multi-tasking "It's my train set and I'll play if I wanna" Photograph courtesy Gabe Trodd COMMUTERS gasped as they saw MP Diane Abbott step into the driver’s cab of a London Overground train at Highbury and Islington station just ater the morning peak period.There was, however, little to fear. The shadow public health minister, and member

TV SERIES GOES TO SCHOOL IN DALSTON

2011-05-26T06:29:00.000-07:00

The "SA". Warning: TV folk about on Bank Holiday Street closes as Petchey in E8 becomes a setHACKNEY lives up to its reputation as a popular locale for film-makers: a camera crew is taking over a section of Dalston on the May Bank Holiday Monday.A scene from One Night, a four-part series for Channel 4, is being shot at the Petchey Academy at the north end of Cecilia Road, Dalston, London E8,

C'ETAIT LE TOUR DE DALSTON

2011-05-23T14:33:00.000-07:00

V Before the run, Tour de Dalstoners decorate their bikes and themselves at Toynbee Hall NEVER mind the Tour de France -- all those pesky mountains and searing heat – NE London has its own cycling event.The Tour de Dalston takes off from Aldgate in the late afternoon of Sunday 12 June 2011, covers 2.5 miles and expects to end in Dalston Lane a drug-unenhanced 45 minutes later. If you are as

E8 FLATS GREEN-POWER DOUBTS

2011-05-15T14:50:00.000-07:00

Architect says PV cells would offer 'not so much' in cost-savings to tenants Dalston Lane leading to Martel Place, or Cartel Place, as the sign was once altered to say THE architect of the ten-floor building planned for Martel Place behind the Kingsland Centre shopping mall off Dalston Lane has explained the green aspects of the scheme.Loving Dalston asked Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton

CAMERAS ROLL IN DALSTON THRILLER

2011-05-14T12:33:00.000-07:00

Trying to make his (St) Mark: a director is filming a remake Agyness Deyn takes on saucy rolein a Snatch-style feature film WHO knew Agyness Deyn could act? Madrid-born Luis Prieto believes he knows; he is using the model in Pusher, a thriller he is working on in Dalston this week.In the shadow of St Mark’s church, filming has started on an improvised set inside a terrace house. Gossip-column

A DALSTON VISION OF THE FUTURE

2011-05-10T07:37:00.000-07:00

Bunker chic, but it's unlikely to start a fashion -- even in E8 THE words installation and sensory are usually entertainment-killers. Add interaction and you’re in for a possibly worthy but certainly dull evening. Bunker plc in the heart of Dalston is the exception. Loving Dalston termed the ScreenDeep production the year’s “first hot ticket”. It was a near-unforgivable resort to cliché that

ANOTHER HEART OF HACKNEY HIGH-RISE

2011-05-08T06:55:00.000-07:00

Tall building of flats and shops proposed for a Dalston site close to stores, trains and buses A TEN-FLOOR building is planned for Martel Place, at the entrance to the car park behind the Kingsland Centre shopping mall. Under the scheme 69-76 Dalston Lane and the vacant land behind the Martel Place hoarding would become a huge development that would be home to 119 flats, ranging from one to

A PLANE E8 LOOK AT ONE LIFE

2011-05-06T10:28:00.000-07:00

Pop-up art: Vaughan Grylls and Megan Piper at the Dalston venue A PRAM under the full-size outline of a Second World War fighter plane is the dramatic sight greeting you if you step through the Victorian arches into London’s latest pop-up gallery.It is the visual autobiography of Vaughan Grylls, an artist whose pram narrowly escaped the rat-tat-tat fire of a Dornier 217 light