La Grace Du Ciel at Gallery Extreme
A homage to Grace Jones at a new East London art gallery
Read More‘The toilet is in the shower’: vulnerable tenants in tiny £258 a week flats hit with ‘revenge evictions’
Tenants in Stoke Newington flats threatened with eviction after complaining about noise from music rehearsal studios below
Read MoreGypsies and Travellers in uproar over proposals to redefine their ethnic status
Government proposes that only those with ‘genuine nomadic lifestyles’ should be defined as Travellers
Read MorePatti Smith and Caribou to play at Field Day
Acts announced for next year’s festival include punk legend Patti Smith, who will play her landmark album Horses in its entirety
Read MoreEx-councillor condemns ‘sham’ hearing after judge rules against petition
Former councillor and independent candidate Vernon Williams accused Hackney’s Returning Officer of breaking the law
Read MoreOPEN campaigners lose high court battle over demolition of Dalston Lane
Hackney’s heritage being destroyed in favour of ‘bogus replicas’, claims OPEN Dalston Chair
Read MoreArgentine film festival returns to Hackney
Yearly celebration of Argentine cinema to feature films by some of the country’s most promising directors
Read More‘Major incident’ forces closure of Hackney Citizens Advice Bureau
Police called to scene as windows of Mare Street bureau smashed
Read MorePrincess of Wales – review
The Princess of Wales in Clapton has a more homely feel than the average East London pub
Read MoreTwo charged with criminal damage as 100 car tyres slashed in Stamford Hill
Shomrim say Volvos and people-carriers targeted as 60 cars are damaged in the Jewish Community
Read MoreCharity Commission rules on ‘conflict of interest’ between councillor’s charity and business
Report finds Cllr Michael Desmond was landlord to tenant referred from charity as ‘short term measure’
Read MoreEmma Ware: sustainable jewellery for the 21st century
Resourceful designer makes jewellery using reformed materials
Read MoreWin tickets for Jonny Woo’s East London Lecture
Jonny Woo looks back on how Shoreditch became the centre of all things cool at his East London Lecture at the Rose Lipman Building. Win a pair of tickets for the opening night here
Read MoreHow to design happiness into your life
Feeling blue? A new book analyses the psychology of happiness and offers tips on how to achieve it
Read MoreBoris Johnson to intervene as Christmas evictions threaten New Era families
Mayor’s office to write to Westbrook Partners after US firm backtracks on promise to freeze rents on Hoxton estate
Read MoreOfsted under fire over inspection at Stamford Hill Jewish school
Secularists question Jewish school ‘good’ rating amid claims inspection failed to address evolution and sex education
Read MoreJack London goes down and out in The People of the Abyss
Reissue of Jack London’s socialist expose from 1903 with original photographic plates aims to shock with its depiction of early 20th-century poverty
Read MoreVandalism and the red hands of William Gladstone
Behind the red-handed statue of William Gladstone in Bow Churchyard is a story of silencing and resistance
Read MoreEast London Suffragettes: 'more diverse than middle-class women marching around dressed in white'
New book commemorates a hundred years since a group of East End women led by Sylvia Pankhurst set up a splinter group of suffragettes
Read MoreVolunteers chip in to create brand new mosaic in Hackney Downs Pavilion
Hackney Mosaic Project works with volunteers to make glass and ceramic ‘Roman-inspired’ artwork depicting animal chase
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