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Wednesday 7 April 2021 Courtesy of Mario Kardana The Hackney Road in east London is full of interesting destinations, from stylish restaurants to florists and everything in between. The latest addition to the street, furniture dealer Mario Kardana, is just one more reason to visit, having opened M.Kardana, his first store premises, at No.188A. Kardana is representative of a new aesthetic in the furniture and art being offered on the vintage and second-hand market. While ‘mid-century modern�...

Brian Hanley 32 min read During July 1921 Count George Noble Plunkett, Dáil minister for foreign affairs, wrote a long letter to Éamon de Valera. In it Plunkett warned the Sinn Féin leader that republicans should be wary of too close a relationship with ‘the Jews’. Across Europe, Plunkett asserted, Jews had been a negative influence, because (1) they are, an...

One morning with George Foreman in Tokyo Steve Bunce on the trials and tribulations of a heavyweight motley crew IT was a morning of true glory in Tokyo when the George Foreman roadshow started at 9am with Tommy Morrison in denial, Mark Gastineau in tears and the most ferocious women’s fight I have ever seen. The Bay NK Hall, near Tokyo’s Disneyland, had been home to sedate affairs, bonsai tree festivals, Wham, giant gatherings of stamp collectors, but on a Sunday morning in November ...

Police search for Ford Falcon sedan following five business break-ins north of Adelaide Posted SunSunday 14 Police were called to the incident in the early hours of Sunday morning. ( Print text only Cancel Police are asking for community assistance to locate a Ford sedan after five businesses were broken into just north of Adelaide overnight. Key points: Officers found four other businesses had been broken into in the area A grey Ford sedan seen nearby drove off and was briefly chased by poli...

Police are investigating multiple break-ins at businesses in Prospect overnight. About 2.13am today (Sunday 14 March), patrols were called to a business...

Building study: Yorkton Workshops by Cassion Castle with Pearson Lloyd The practice connected two ‘ramshackle’ buildings of different eras to create  a new studio for design firm Pearson Lloyd – a worthy winner of this year’s AJ Retrofit of the Year Award, says Fran Williams comment and share Pearson Lloyd purchased its 550m 2 Hackney warehouse building in 2017 and approached Cassion Castle Architects with the idea of transforming it into a new HQ for the product design practice, a pl...

The Mexican feast from Rogues London - Credit: Rogues London The ex-Galvin chefs behind Rogues are now delivering weekly changing Friday Feasts and Sunday Roasts to your door. Zac Whittle and Freddie Sheens three month residency at Hackney Coffee Company came to an abrupt end with the December lockdown. Still working partly from the kitchen in Hackney Road, they hope to continue their residency once lockdown lifts - but in the meantime they have pivoted to deliver anywhere within the M2...

The Mexican feast from Rogues London - Credit: Rogues London The ex-Galvin chefs behind Rogues are now delivering weekly changing Friday Feasts and Sunday Roasts to your door. Zac Whittle and Freddie Sheens three month residency at Hackney Coffee Company came to an abrupt end with the December lockdown. Still working partly from the kitchen in Hackney Road, they hope to continue their residency once lockdown lifts - but in the meantime they have pivoted to deliver anywhere within the M2...

The Yorkton Workshops project involved the sensitive restoration and conversion of a derelict Victorian block in east London East London-based design firm Pearson Lloyd has collaborated with Cassion Castle Architects to create a purpose-built design studio and event space for itself in Hackney. Spread over two interconnected wings of two storeys each, Yorkton Workshops required careful reconstruction and renovation of a historic block of workshops and a more recent warehouse structure. The proj...

Mike Brooke Barbara Windsor opening a community hub in the Hackney Road. - Credit: LBTH Barbara Windsor, the most famous and loved East Ender in real life and on screen, has died at the age of 83.  The “Queen of the East End”, who was awarded a Damehood for services to charity and entertainment and an honorary doctorate from the University of East London, played the landlady of The Vic pub in the BBC soap EastEnders for several years and starred in many Carry On films.  A close friend of...