YesNoDisco 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)))
Read MoreThe Rivals at the Arcola – review
Richard Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is a masterclass in lampooning and satire
Read MoreRay Winstone: I got my big break on the way I walked down the corridor
Hard man of film talks about getting his breakthrough role in Scum and growing up in East London
Read MoreDe Beauvoir Primary investigated over exam ‘maladministration’
Key Stage 2 test results annulled as Department for Education investigates administration of school’s exams
Read MoreFollowing no-notice inspection, Jewish school remains defiant over exam question redaction
Jewish state school rated ‘good’ will continue instructing students to refrain from answering sensitive exam questions
Read MoreTerrorist suspect arrested in Hackney
21 year-old man bailed until December after being arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences
Read MoreSt Mungo’s dispute escalates as staff vote for second week of strike action
Residents of Mare Street hostel to be left with ‘skeleton service’ as over 100 staff members vote in favour of strike
Read MoreFormer councillor launches appeal against ‘illegally run’ election
Vernon Williams who ran as an independent candidate in May’s local elections accuses returning officer of breaking the law
Read MoreTricia Okoruwa obituary
Tributes paid to ‘tenacious’ Head of Hackney Learning Trust who devoted her career to improving school standards
Read MoreTeenager facing years behind bars for killing schoolgirl Shereka Marsh
Old Bailey judge hands 15 year-old boy 9 year jail sentence for shooting Urswick School pupil dead
Read MoreStokey Local loses high court appeal over Sainsbury’s development
Judge dismisses judicial reviews against Wilmer Place development as campaigners left to foot £22,000 legal bill
Read MoreHackney teenage boy missing for a fortnight
Police concerned for the welfare of 16 year-old Keiarani Hamilton-Hughes from Victoria Park
Read MoreClosed female-only gym awarded Asset of Community Value status
Community group ‘delighted’ after receiving protective status for Sunstone Women
Read MoreCouncil to ‘re-evaluate’ St Mungo’s contract as staff strike over working conditions
Workers at homeless charity in week-long strike over changes brought in by Chief Executive Howard Sinclair
Read MoreEviction of council house tenants in Hackney rises by 60 per cent
98 people in one year forced to leave their council homes due to rent arrears
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