Hackney Labour’s leaflets claim pioneering living wage status
How accurate are boasts that Hackney Council will soon be at the forefront of implementing fairer pay?
Read MoreSquatters evicted from 195 Mare Street
Occupiers forced out after High Court hearing brought by developer Chris Sturdy Design and Build
Read MoreMarshland: Dreams and Nightmares on the Edge of London – review
Writer Gareth Rees teams up with illustrator Ada Jusic to produce strikingly original new book
Read MoreWildlife charity appeals for information on crossbow criminal
Attacks on Hackney waterfowl ‘very concerning’ says RSPB
Read MoreHackney Council criticised for spending £40,000 to spray pavements with glyphosate
Town Hall to continue using weed-killer despite fears about impact on wildlife and humans
Read MoreControversial Sainsbury’s application passed (again) by Hackney Council
Campaigners begin letter-writing drive against development in Stoke Newington
Read MoreWe’ll play no part in ‘biased’ standards committee, say Hackney Conservatives
Tories withdraw from group they brand ‘nakedly partisan’
Read MoreNow open: Ophelia, Hackney’s newest theatre
Dalston venue hosts production of Absence by Tim Cook
Read MoreBl-nk canvas: Hackney Council finds new way to push high tech businesses
Trendy start-ups backed by successor to pioneering Hackney House
Read MoreStoke Newington parakeet numbers increasing as residents complain of noise
Experts say there could now be as many as 30,000 of the bright green birds descended from escapees
Read MoreSquatters occupying 195 Mare Street face eviction this week
Fate to be decided at High Court hearing set for Friday morning
Read MoreEars to the ground: an interview with Field Day founder Tom Baker
Promoter Tom Baker is East London’s go-to guy when it comes to live music
Read MoreThe Wapping Project powers down
Long running art space bows out this month with an Ibsen-inspired installation after 13 years in its hydraulic power station home
Read MoreDiane Abbott joins BSix college students at debate over Education Maintenance Allowance
‘Beer money’ could make a return
Read MoreColvestone Primary choir sang along with Joe Stilgoe at carol concert
Event raised funds for charity Children and the Arts
Read MoreMillfields Community School’s Christmas song to raise funds for playground
Bid to find £250,000
Read MoreAbney Park Trust’s future still in doubt after ‘jargonistic’ meeting
Talks with Hackney Council ‘not reassuring’
Read MoreGeraldine Pilgrim at Toynbee Hall
Toynbee Hall and Studios is the subject of a tour by installation artist Geraldine Pilgrim
Read MoreSupporting Artists – Acme's First Decade 1972-1982
Whitechapel Gallery exhibition charts the first ten years of Acme, an organisation founded in the 1970s that provided affordable studio space and support for artists
Read MoreSpitalfields Winter Festival – Remember Me: A Desk Opera
An opera inside a desk is sure to be one of the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival highlights
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