Hackney Flashers make a comeback with childcare exhibition
1970s photography collective feature in History is Now exhibition at the Hayward Gallery
Read MoreFifty apprenticeships in Hackney at risk as Building Lives charity loses funding
Apprenticeship charity loses key construction industry grant
Read MoreMedian Road Resource Centre to close
Residential care unit in Lower Clapton to discharge remaining patients and shut its doors at the end of March
Read MoreCeleb-studded new film is set in a parallel East London world
Set The Thames on Fire is a dark, fantastical vision of East London starring the likes of Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips
Read MoreUKIP announces Hackney North parliamentary candidate
Keith Fraser is to stand as Parliamentary candidate for UKIP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Read MoreChesham Arms pub saved from further development
Community pub protected for future generations
Read MoreBoxing Academy to become free school
Specialist school set to convert in 2016 as part of Cameron’s new ‘wave’ of free schools
Read MoreMagnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at the Barbican – review
This collection of artists’ collections including those of Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, is fascinating though by its very definition a mixed bag
Read MoreCelebrating Women's History Month in East London
There’s a series of events going on all over East London to mark Women’s History Month
Read MoreFit for purpose? New Care Act standards put to the test
New legislation will standardise care and support from April, but a lack of funding to local authorities and a high threshold to qualify for help may scupper reforms
Read MoreTitbits – Beards, budgets and a broken statue
Find out who’s namechecked in this month’s diary column
Read MoreLetter – Having to pay to protest is wrong
We already pay for policing through taxation and should be able to exercise our right to peaceful protest
Read MorePhilip Ridley: 'You cannot predict what’s going to cause outrage'
Playwright Philip Ridley talks about his new play Radiant Vermin, moving house – and why his provocateur reputation is undeserved
Read MoreHarry Potter star debuts his solo show at the Arcola
Harry Melling’s Peddling is about a pedlar boy trudging the doorsteps of the wealthy trying to make sense of life
Read MoreAntigone – stage review: new script makes for slanging mismatch
Roy Williams’ adaptation of Antigone at Stratford East places the play in a gangland setting
Read MoreThe Mikvah Project – stage review: 'dissecting stereotypes and clichés'
Erotically-charged new play The Mikvah Project at The Yard Theatre explores Jewish faith and the boundaries of love
Read MoreHoxton gallery hosts social housing project
A varied programme of art and politics surrounding social housing is underway at PEER Gallery
Read MoreHackney Mayor accused over tower plans for Shoreditch and Hackney Downs
Consistency of the mayor’s position on tall buildings questioned
Read MoreLeader – Mayor must stand tall to block towers
‘Excessively’ tall buildings are being flung up across the borough – the Mayor should take more of a stand against them
Read MoreTower power – building up to more school places
The Town Hall is using the power of property values to circumvent the Government’s schools policy
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