Parents to ‘keep up pressure’ over education cuts with park protests
Colourful ‘School Assembly’ action on Friday to feature child-led march and speeches from teachers and politicians
Read MoreAphex Twin or Run The Jewels? Field Day releases clashfinder along with site map ahead of 3 June extravaganza
Map shows magnitude of new arena area The Barn, as full list of set times for the 8 stages revealed
Read MoreTeenage poet takes first prize in hard-fought Hackney talent show
Chifa K wins Alter Ego 2017 to mark start of borough’s long-running youth arts festival
Read MoreHackney South and Shoreditch hustings: full round-up
Your guide to the major talking points during last night’s election face-off
Read MoreThe Lime Green Mystery, Rosa Schling, book review: Dalston die-hards
The team at On The Record brought us history-walk app a hackney autobiography. Sister book The Lime-Green Mystery delves even deeper into radical HQ Centerprise’s colourful history
Read MorePATHFYNDER – expert UK immigration lawyers
Need advice? Find out more about this growing, broad-ranging and highly skilled immigration law firm based in Shoreditch
Read MoreCandidates clash at Hackney South and Shoreditch hustings
General Election hopefuls face public grilling at packed-out church in De Beauvoir
Read MoreVisions Festival nearly doubles its 2017 line-up as new acts announced
Amber Arcades, Night Flowers and Wolf Eyes among those joining headliners like Liars, Sophie and Jenny Hval at the multi-venue festival in August
Read MoreHackney students triumph in prestigious business contest
Skinners’ Academy pupils win Prince’s Trust Enterprise Challenge after close-run competition with five other schools
Read MoreCitizensUK demands tougher action on rogue landlords in Town Hall protest
Campaigners want council to bring in licensing scheme in Hackney to help combat criminal behaviour
Read MoreGet checked: Prostate Cancer Roadshow for African and Caribbean men to arrive in Dalston on Monday
Charities Orchid and Cancer Black Care will be at Ridley Road Market from 9am – 4pm
Read MoreAlice Neel, Uptown @ Victoria Miro, exhibition review: charming, intelligent New York portraits
A new exhibition at the Islington gallery showcases the diversity of Neel’s astute and penetrative portraiture
Read MoreRent campaigners blockade letting agency to protest ‘daylight robbery’
Tenants’ group targets branch of Savills as it calls on government to ‘stick to its guns on fees ban’
Read MoreTop self-portrait prize won by Hackney artist Benjamin Ogbebor
The 41-year old ‘unknown’ thought beating the likes of Tracey Emin to the Ruth Borchard Prize and its £10,000 winnings was “a practical joke” at first
Read MoreTwo teenagers arrested in Dalston for wielding ‘monster’ knife during fight
Youngsters were waving the 10-inch weapon during a fight in the early evening of Thursday
Read MorePop Up a whole new living in six Hackney weeks
A new support for brand new micro-businesses – Six Weeks to Pop Up starts 24th May in Hackney
Read MoreCouncil gets candidate’s name wrong in General Election announcement
‘Let’s hope the ballot papers are correct!’ says Lib Dem Dave Raval, who was wrongly listed as Dev on list of hopefuls for Hackney South
Read MoreLegendary gay pub The Joiners Arms “back in business” with events on Hackney Road
Parties to be held at Ye Olde Ax club, opposite the original Joiners building, as campaigners fight for an LGBT+ hub in the derelict space that closed in 2015
Read MoreDe Beauvoir Association to host Hackney South hustings on 22 May
General Election candidates to answer the public’s questions at St Peter’s Church
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for June
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top art exhibitions this month, in the borough and beyond
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