London Fields Brewery snapped up by Carlsberg ahead of founder’s fraud trial
Julian Whiteway-Wilkinson denies charges of tax evasion and is set for court appearance this month
Take the spear – Gillian Riley on asparagus and other shoots ‘n’ buds
You may get in trouble pinching someone’s asparagus, but perhaps wild Hackney borage will take your fancy? Our resident food historian focuses in on this genre of edible greenery in her latest piece for us, featuring a recipe for a very non-traditional – but incredible – risotto
People’s Parking Bay founder urges council to reverse removal threat
Brenda Puech’s parking space garden could be driven out following complaint from car owner
Homerton Hospital’s surprising commitment to art continues – with a little bit of politics
We meet Shaun Caton, the man in charge of Homerton Hospital’s exhibitions (including latest Underbelly Britain) as well as its huge art collection and groundbreaking creative therapies
Swift exit: is Hackney Council missing a big opportunity by exiling this most high-flying of birds?
Their aerial displays above Hackney’s skies thrill many, but campaigners such as Hamish Burnett are concerned that they will find nowhere to nest in the borough’s increasingly renovated old and new buildings, as he explains in this comment piece
Titbits – council fiddles with freesheet as fire safety response put on ice
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Leader – Grenfell questions must not be deflected
Providing incomplete information is no substitute for transparency and action
Broadway Market’s most enigmatic furniture shop: we talk to the shopkeeper/owner of Broadway Retro
Broadway Retro has no web presence, no sign and is “mainly shut” – but a look around and a chat with owner and shopkeeper Sarah Bancroft reveals many a reason to visit, and some fascinating insights into the storied market
A Hoxton Childhood and The Years After by A.S. Jasper, book review: it’s a hard Hox life
A.S. Jasper was better known as Stan in early twentieth-century Hoxton, where he struggled through a hungry upbringing. Our review looks at his two volumes of “first-person insight into a time when the welfare state was but a twinkle in the labour movement’s eye…”
It should take just ‘two days’ to test cladding, says former council health and safety officer
Town Hall said today – nearly two weeks after Grenfell disaster – that independent cladding tests “will begin this week”