Person and plate: star solicitor Diane Morrison picks up where Legal Aid left off
Meet the former typist who has become the pride of Hackney Community Law Centre
Read MoreTitbits — History lessons, mansion tax and no bangs for the bucks
A lecture by Edward Benyon proves history is indeed written by the victors as Hackney politicians bring the mansion tax spat closer to home
Read MoreGillian Riley on sausages – the breakfast of centurions
From Roman warrior snacks to Hackney’s designer links, food historian Gillian Riley tracks the many lives of the sausage
Read MoreJoin Hackney’s food recycling experiment!
Use your blue bin… and win
Read MoreFacing The Realness: ex-offenders and care leavers to star in new musical at Hackney Downs Studios
A prison leaver tries to get his life back on track with mixed success in new musical The Realness by Big House Theatre company
Read MoreDocumentary charts last days of the Haggerston Estate
After learning that their homes were to be demolished, the residents of Samuel House set about making the most of what time they had left there
Read MoreWalead Beshty brings rubbish installation to Barbican Centre
A year’s worth of detritus and one of the earliest photographic techniques form the basis of Walead Beshty’s installation at the Barbican centre
Read MoreIain Sinclair launches 70×70 birthday book
Iain Sinclair discusses the changing face of cinema at book launch event
Read MoreGallery on Well Street to host Chinese Whispers exhibition
Dutch and British artists to explore how nationality affects their artistic practice in last big exhibition at the Karin Janssen Project Space
Read More'Unique' Bethnal Green gasholders face uncertain future
A petition to save the Bethnal Green gasholders has already gained more than 1000 signatures
Read MoreVictory for St Mungo’s staff as management bows to pressure
Strikes called off as Chief Executive takes responsibility for the dispute over pay and conditions
Read MoreEast London Strippers Collective wants to empower performers and change attitudes
The East London Strippers Collective (ELSC) is campaigning to redefine mainstream views of stripping – but is it dancing out of time with popular opinion?
Read MoreDigging deep: residents protest over ‘extreme’ basement excavations
Wilberforce Road graffitied as residents’ anger over excavations taking place at seven separate properties boils over
Read MoreEast London sees return of Fringe! Underwire and Homeless film festivals
November is a bumper month for film with three film festivals returning to East London screens
Read MoreYesNoDisco asks: is it sexy or sexist?
Public to decide over songs that tread the blurred line between ‘sexy’ and ‘sexist’ at the latest YesNoDisco club night
Read MoreStoke Newington pupils use Shakespeare to settle into secondary school life
Globe Education Project sees Year 7 students at Stoke Newington School explore notion of change by performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Read MoreLeader — Dog’s breakfast of a ‘resurrected’ campaign
Plot thickens over Head of Regeneration’s last-gasp call to arms as pow-wows on petition do not add up
Read MoreHackney GCSE results dip under controversial new exam structure
Results drop by 3.1 per cent but benchmark of five A*-C grades still 2 per cent higher than national average
Read MoreConservatives abandon Scrutiny after new system leaves them with ‘no voice’
Michael Levy says Council is now ‘scrutinising itself’ as Labour slams group for ‘playing politics’ with cross-party function
Read MoreScott Walker + Sunn O))): Soused at St John at Hackney – 'ridiculously sublime, sublimely ridiculous'
Fans of Scott Walker gathered last month at St John at Hackney church to hear the artist’s latest album, a collaboration with Sunn O)))
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