“We’ll be unemployed”: meet the locals caught up in Hackney Wick’s ‘Industrial Devolution’
Non-profit LandSky & The Yard theatre partner up for new interview project aiming to bring voices of the Wick to life
Read MorePregnant driver jailed for ramming cyclist into tree in Hackney
Police release shocking footage of Justine Henshaw-Bryan ‘using car as a weapon’ following row over mobile phone
Read MoreRichmond Road Medical Centre to showcase range of borough’s mental health services for awareness week
Tomorrow’s event at the GP practice will feature mindfulness and yoga taster sessions and more
Read MoreMaeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire
In this new film installation currently showing at the Chisenhale Gallery, the artist and filmmaker’s camera pens a love letter to painstakingly reconstructed Lebanese artefacts
Read MoreCleaver-wielding man arrested after ‘threatening to kill Jews’ in Clapton
Suspect armed with butcher’s blade and large knife reportedly screamed at Jewish schoolgirls to ‘run away’
Read MoreShut Down LD50 to ‘keep fighting’ after Dalston gallery reopens
‘We need to show them that they are not welcome here’, urges anti-fascist group as controversial gallery unveils new exhibition
Read MoreLes Nénettes, Clapton, restaurant review – ‘classic southern French’
This new French restaurant on La rue de Lower Clapton offers fine fare from apéritifs to main course
Read MoreHackney burns survivor floats free swimming scheme
‘I needed to do something positive to help other people in my situation’, says campaigner Sylvia Mac
Read MoreClient Earth, James Thornton and Martin Goodman, book review – ‘a fight to protect our natural habitat’
The London Fields-based environmental law firm ClientEarth scored another victory last month in their battle for clean air. A new book outlines their philosophies
Read MoreIdris Elba open casting in Haggerston ‘shut down’ after huge crowds turn up
Police called after hundreds gathered outside Whitmore Community Centre last night to audition for upcoming film set in Hackney
Read MoreControversial LD50 gallery in Dalston launches new exhibition
Hackney art gallery that anti-fascist protestors claimed to have shut down is putting on new show called ‘Corporeality’
Read MoreFor whom the bell tolls: the world of Breathing Space
We talk to the sonic art collective, fresh from their latest time-bending, meditative sound installation at St. Augustine’s Tower
Read MoreWhitehall ‘passing the buck’ on illegal air pollution, say Hackney lawyers
ClientEarth blasts government’s latest air quality action plan, released by ministers on Friday after failed legal bid to delay publication
Read MoreThis Beautiful Future, The Yard, theatre review – love during wartime
The latest production at The Yard, This Beautiful Future, is “a tale of love and war” set in occupied France, 1944
Read MoreGeneral Election 2017: Conservatives announce Hackney candidates
Amy Gray to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Luke Parker in Hackney South and Shoreditch
Read MoreIdris Elba scours Hackney for paid extras to appear in new film
The picture will centre on the borough’s African Caribbean community in the eighties
Read MoreGeneral Election 2017: Conservatives yet to select candidates for Hackney seats
Party finished second in both constituencies in 2015
Read MoreGeneral Election 2017: Labour party reselects Diane Abbott and Meg Hillier
Abbott to stand in Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Hillier in Hackney South and Shoreditch
Read MoreGrass roots: the local gardening group with big plans for Hackney Downs
Overgrown bowling green could be jettisoned for a host of new features if Hackney Community Gardeners get their way
Read MoreTitbits – upstairs, downstairs with the Greens and a skeleton-staffed boozer
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
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