Teenagers charged with the murder of Charlie Burns
19 year-old Ashan Crosdale and a 16 year-old boy charged with murder
Read MoreBulk of London Mayor’s riot fund still unspent
Report by London Assembly claims the 70m Mayor’s Regeneration Fund is not being spent fast enough
Read MorePolice appeal following second dog attack in Clissold Park
Police say attacks are causing concern amongst ‘dog walking fraternity’ but are not thought to be linked
Read MoreDalston bar removes poster after ‘distressing’ artwork causes outrage
Image on poster put up on Kingsland Road was inappropriate, says campaign group Object
Read MoreTwo teenagers arrested after Hackney murder
Police appeal for information following stabbing on Frampton Park Road
Read More‘Hackney heroine’ accuses Liberal Democrats of ‘underhand racism’
Lib Dems say they are looking into Pauline Pearce’s concerns as a ‘matter of urgency’ as she quits presidential campaign
Read MoreCrime is of the essence: Where now for the East End gangster flick?
From The Krays to Snatch, East London has provided inspiration for countless films about organised crime, but as local identity shifts is it time to consign the genre to history?
Read MoreStephen Gill: Conceptual chronicler
Photographer Stephen Gill captures East London like it’s never been seen before
Read MoreRoundabout way to regeneration? Fears that Hackney’s Tech City will become a ghost town
Kirsty Styles investigates Tech City’s boom, and its stunted growth
Read MorePanzanella: discovering the pleasures of peasant food
Food historian Gillian Riley shares her version of a Tuscan summer classic
Read More‘This land is our land’: the Lammas Day ‘riots’ of August 1892
Benjamin Mortimer recounts a Victorian fight for local land
Read MoreOpen letter from Hebron
Human rights monitor Chris Venables shares experiences of the West Bank in letter home to Hackney
Read MoreJitters and elation as A Level students pick up results
Students from Clapton Girls’ Academy and BSix College share the stories of their success
Read MoreFetishising East London's past
Why is there such a fascination for ‘grit and squalor’ representations of East London’s history?
Read MoreAkiine: dream-pop from rural Stockholm
Akiine channels ‘otherworldly feelings’ in her unorthodox approach to music making
Read MoreStopping mad: Council calls on TfL to give Hackney two Crossrail 2 stations
Cabinet Member for Regeneration says having only one stop would ‘waste the potential’ of the borough
Read MoreBacchus review – Roasts with the most
Simplicity is key at new kitchen specialising in Sunday roasts
Read MoreThe Planner- review
A town planner is seduced into a life of decadence in Tom Campbell’s satire on modern urban life
Read MoreFuchsia Dunlop: the land of plenty and me
Dalston’s resident expert in Chinese food Fuchsia Dunlop talks about falling in love with Sichuan cuisine and how to make it yourself
Read MoreThe Morning Star: black, white and red all over
Communist newspaper The Morning Star is continuing to take the fight to capitalism from its base in Hackney Wick
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