Her amendment was supported by several peers including Labour's Baroness Wilkins and crossbencher Lord Low of Dalston.

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She has appeared in Cape Town and Tottenham and Dalston, she says.

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Hutchinson-Foster has admitted using the same gun to beat barber Peter Osadebay at a barber's shop in Dalston, east London, just six days before Mr Duggan's death.

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Five to six cases of pale ale per week, for example, are reserved for Soho steakhouse Flat Iron, while Indian restaurant Gujarati Rasoi in Dalston favours the lemongrass saison.

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Crossbench peer Lord Low of Dalston, who was born blind, warned of the "very serious problem" of attacks on guide dogs, which he said were "running at over seven a month".

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But many of the younger arrivals the ones to be found in grimy nightclubs in Dalston rather than the boutiques of Sloane Square come to London precisely to live a messier, less French life in the company of new people.

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The Barbican also announced separate events taking place in other east London venues as part of its future programming, including an installation in Dalston which will give visitors the sense that they are climbing up a Victorian terraced house.

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