Titbits – GCHQ, artful dodgers and in praise of Mao
One Hackney MP leaps to the defence of Chairman Mao and GCHQ breaks the rules
Read MoreTube workers show station mastery with Out of Uniform exhibition
View art by London Underground employees in an empty office turned gallery next to Leytonstone Underground
Read MorePuppet-powered Snow White panto comes to Winterville
Visitors to Victoria Park’s winter town can immerse themselves in the delights of a Christmas pantomime
Read MoreThis is East London: short film Jacked has true grit
Two car thieves make an unusual discovery in short film starring Charley Palmer Rothwell and This is England’s Thomas Turgoose
Read MoreAnti-hipster graffiti ‘misdirected,’ says Well Street Pizza
Vandals have targeted other new businesses in Hackney
Read MoreHackney MPs vote against air strikes against ISIS in Syria
Last night politicians cast their vote on whether the UK should join US-led bombing campaign
Read MoreCare leavers invited to poet Lemn Sissay’s Hackney Christmas dinner
Nationwide project aims to leave ‘no care leaver alone’ on Christmas Day
Read MorePolice release CCTV images following Old Street sexual assault
The wanted pair are alleged to have assaulted a woman on Old Street
Read MoreInternational Migrants Day celebrations come to East London
Hackney screenwriter Tony Grisoni to introduce Bafta-winning film at Whitechapel Gallery event on migration
Read MoreSave our hedgehogs: numbers in continuing decline, report warns
There have been no sightings of the prickly mammal in Hackney for two years
Read MoreChristmas toy appeal makes final plea for donations
With one week to go, Stokey Parents are half-way to reaching target
Read MoreJack and the Beanstalk, Hackney Empire, review: hilariously silly and mischievous
This year’s Hackney Empire pantomime reimagines Jack and the Beanstalk as a climate change fable
Read MoreA fish odyssey across East London
Your intrepid correspondent casts his net in search of delicious seafood
Read MoreGCHQ pavement ads breach council rules in graffiti gaffe
Security and intelligence organisation claims it sought permission but council denies any record of agreement
Read MoreResidents launch petition over Crossrail 2 plans to dig up Shoreditch Park
Britannia Leisure Centre could also be bulldozed following TfL’s proposals for an underground ventilation shaft
Read More‘Ban basement excavations’: mother and toddler narrowly escape injury in ceiling collapse
Father points finger of blame at council for approving ‘dangerous and disruptive’ basement excavations
Read MorePJ Harvey to headline as Field Day announces first wave of acts
Beach House, Deerhunter and Four Tet also set to perform at festival’s tenth anniversary in Victoria Park
Read MorePJ Harvey to headline as Field Day announces first wave of acts
Beach House, Deerhunter and Four Tet also set to perform at festival’s tenth anniversary in Victoria Park
Read MoreThe Divided Laing review – inside the mind of a psychiatrist
Arcola production about R.D. Laing’s 1960s mental health commune examines the nature of psychiatry while remaining at its core a domestic farce
Read MoreStoke Newington café to host Christmas Day lunch for oldsters
The Haberdashery café is looking for support from residents for a planned festive meal for older residents
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