Les 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
Read MoreLeader – When Hackney elects, don’t bottle the ballot
Foregone conclusions? Maybe so, maybe not – either way that shouldn’t stop the borough casting a thoughtful vote that matters
Read MoreHackney Family Cycling’s stolen kit found in police raid
Group’s founder there to witness the bust following Facebook tip-off
Read MoreGreen Party launches Brexit policy in Space
Joint leader Caroline Lucas proposes referendum on EU divorce deal
Read More‘Labour lacks economic credibility’, say Lib Dems after Diane Abbott radio gaffe
Shadow home secretary stumbled over figures when talking to LBC Radio about Labour’s pledge to hire 10,000 extra police officers
Read MoreBrain injury survivors to run pop-up art shop in Hoxton
Five-day project led by Headway East London to feature events, talks and exhibitions
Read MoreKaty Taylor – inspiring lessons for aspiring flutists, pianists and recorder players
Hackney-based classically trained musician offers musical, technical and theoretical support on the flute, as well as piano and recorder lessons
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