Stop the Blocks: an East London guided tour with a difference
Community campaign group aims to highlight the “devastating effects” overdevelopment is having on East End residents
Read MoreEel passes help endangered fish complete final leg of 3,000 km odyssey
Tunnels helping eels on their upstream battle are being refurbished by the Canal and River Trust
Read MoreCheep snack or fowl food? Debate over chicken takeaways continues
A fast food restaurant has applied to open opposite a school, sparking concerns about public health
Read MoreBootstrap Campus connects young locals with Hackney’s creative economy
The youth programme run by Dalston social enterprise Bootstrap Company is breaking down barriers to creative careers
Read MoreFilming inside ‘another world’ at Hackney ballet shoe factory
Ballet shoe factory Freed of London is one of Well Street’s hidden gems. A new short film tells the stories of the craftsmen and women who work there
Read MoreFilming inside 'another world' at Hackney ballet shoe factory
Ballet shoe factory Freed of London is one of Well Street’s hidden gems. A new short film tells the stories of the craftsmen and women who work there
Read MoreHackney Mayor calls on government to ‘step up’ funding for refugees
The prime minister has pledged the UK will take 20,000 refugees by 2020 but funding only announced for one year
Read MoreTurning over a new leaf: looking to the future after Victoria Park Books closes
Owner of independent bookshop Joanna De Guia has launched the events business Story Habit
Read More'That's me in the painting' – how Stik became a street art icon
His trademark figures have become part of the furniture in East London. Now a new book charts the evolution of Stik’s unique, highly politicised style
Read More‘That’s me in the painting’ – how Stik became a street art icon
His trademark figures have become part of the furniture in East London. Now a new book charts the evolution of Stik’s unique, highly politicised style
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Read MoreLeader — Council should put its money where its mouth is
The Hackney Citizen is backing Divest Hackney’s campaign calling on the council to withdraw its investment in fossil fuels
Read MoreDivest Hackney Q&A: Climate activists turn up the heat on local government
Local campaign group explains why it wants Hackney Council to divest from the £42m it has in the fossil fuel industry
Read MoreTitbits — In vogue politicians, prohibition and spin
Jeremy Corbyn nails normcore, the council’s PR team keep on spinning and an alcohol brand’s ad campaign gets close to the bone
Read MoreLondon Fields bakery shares the loaf with bread-making project for refugees
e5 Bakehouse has teamed up with scheme for refugee women to meet, develop skills and learn to bake bread
Read MoreThe Yard named second most popular theatre in London
Hackney Wick theatre comes in second behind National Theatre in poll
Read MoreBody issues: new lit magazine Funhouse gets corporeal
New short story and illustration publication gets to grips with grotesque human forms for its maiden issue
Read MoreTeenager murdered in Hoxton named as Marcel Addai
The family of the 17-year-old stabbed to death on St John’s Estates say they are ‘devastated’ by the ‘wicked attack’
Read MoreRumble in the jumble: residents let down as council bins community sale
Concern over litter and blocked pathways prompts council U-turn on Stoke Newington Jumble Trail
Read MoreCorbyn the poet pledges ‘arts for all’ at policy launch in Dalston
Labour leadership frontrunner announces ‘national strategy for the arts’, including ring-fenced funding and protection for BBC
Read MoreElderly residents targeted as bogus call robberies increase
‘Calculating thieves’ pretend to check water pressure before making off with possessions
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