Hackney woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit FGM
Newham pensioner also arrested as an 11 year old girl is taken into care
Read MoreLib Dems bag victory in bid to improve recycling
Recycling bags will be easier to access, but Greens say council needs to ‘do more’
Read MoreBroken flux capacitor? Secret Cinema fans furious after show cancelled
Friday showing of Back to the Future also cancelled by event organisers
Read MoreCasablanca restaurant closed down after drugs found on premises
Takeaway on Sandringham Road temporarily shut over ‘anti-social behaviour’
Read MoreGet involved in Hackney Youth Parliament, urges Jermain Jackman
Nominations close today for 11-19 year olds wishing to represent the borough’s youth
Read MoreMorland Estate residents to dig deep for new communal garden
Trees for Cities start crowdfunding campaign to help raise £30,000 for garden with fruit orchard and play area
Read MoreMusic Journalism Bootcamp
Develop the skills every music journalist needs. Monday 24 April – Monday 26 June 2017 (eight weeks, excluding bank holidays)
Read MoreHackney hotels to charge guests voluntary donation of £1 a night
Partnership between council and local hotels aims to raise money for new community fund
Read MoreCouncil to consult on bringing housing back in-house
Residents and leaseholders to be consulted on proposal to dissolve Hackney Homes
Read MoreZavier Ellis – Type One Zealotry at Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery
Exhibition in basement gallery contemplates the nature of spirituality, insanity and the occult, and their place in urbanised society
Read MoreMurderer Lerone Boye convicted for being unlawfully at large
Care worker Dean Ablakwa cleared of all charges
Read MoreThere’s a Monster in the Lake – review
Attitudes towards care for the elderly is the sober subtext to a surreal play at the Rosemary Branch
Read More‘Freddy Krueger’ hitman hired by Hackney Turks jailed for life for killing rival gang boss
Police offer £30,000 reward for information on those responsible for ordering the execution
Read MoreOver ten ‘illegal’ yeshiva schools operating in Stamford Hill
Channel 4 Dispatches programme says it is “shocking” that government and council have known of unregistered schools since 2008
Read More‘Sunstone survivors’ call for closed gym to be given Asset of Community Value status
Former members of women-only gym in Stoke Newington say the gym was a ‘safe space’ and should be protected
Read MoreYvonne Rainer: Dance Works
Raven Row hosts first exhibition in which live performances of Yvonne Rainer’s dance works feature alongside her theoretical and lyrical writing
Read MoreThe Frida Kahlo of Penge West – review
Hilarious two-woman show retells the life of the feminist revolutionary artist Frida Kahlo
Read MoreHackney Empire cafe reopens as the latest food and music venture by Platterform
Former cafe has become the newest addition to Hackney’s ‘cultural quarter’
Read MoreEast End designers celebrate summer at London Collections: Men
The pleasures of going on holiday provided inspiration for menswear designers at this year’s London Collections: Men SS15
Read MoreFutures – book review: things are never ‘stupid A to B’
Two City analysts who decide to speculate with cocaine become embroiled in a criminal underworld in novel Futures by Stoke Newington author John Barker
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