Leader: Don’t cut Hackney youth cash
Moves to slash spending on young people make no sense at this volatile time
Read MoreLegal aid cuts: Hackney to be hit hardest
The government’s proposed changes will leave many Hackney residents unable to claim free legal advice for key areas of civil law such as clinical negligence, housing, employment and welfare
Read MoreChurch Street theatre opens
Former Young Vic director Andy McQuade tells the Citizen about his new theatre which has opened in the basement of a Stoke Newington bar
Read MoreGentrification and the battle for Clapton’s soul
Clapton is changing fast as rising house prices in other parts make this once run-down area increasingly des res. But is an influx of newcomers creating tensions with existing residents?
Read MoreTell Them That I Am Young And Beautiful
He moved to Hackney almost two decades ago, but only now is celebrated director Marcello Magni bringing an ambitious international work to his local theatre. He explains why it’s taken him so long and why empathy is critical to his art
Read MoreInterview: Reverend Joyce Daley on the Hackney riots
A local minister gives her eyewitness account of last month’s civil unrest in the borough
Read MoreInterview: Made in Britain author James Gavin Bower on the Hackney riots
A Hackney novelist gives his take on the recent unrest
Read MoreHackney A level students jubilant
Proof for many that hard work pays off
Read MoreThird London Fields aquathlon announced
The increasingly popular multi-sport event is to be held on Sunday 2 October
Read MoreInterview: Yvvette Edwards, Man Booker Prize longlister
Hackney-raised author’s début novel A Cupboard Full of Coats has met with great acclaim
Read MoreOzzy hops for hipsters’ tipple: London Fields Brewery opens
A new Hackney brewery is taking the artisanal approach to booze – with a bit of help from down under
Read MoreHackney Film Festival 2011 launches
Witty, weird and wonderful – and twice as big as last year
Read MoreLeona Lewis: the Hackney heroine has given Simon Cowell a lesson in taste
Collide singer talks epic spook-pop, riots and dodging Whitney style ballads with Sylvia Patterson
Read MoreDonna Walker makes aMEND
Award-winning artist’s new collection comes to The Residence in Victoria Park Village
Read MoreDalston photo exhibition captures backstreet Delhi life
Father and son photographers document Indian city life from the 1950s to the 1970s
Read MoreInfinite Blue: exhibition revisits life in Ceausescu’s Romania
Stefan Constantinescu’s first solo exhibition at Galerie 8 explores the notion of art in a totalitarian state
Read MoreColin O’Brien photography exhibition comes to Pages of Hackney
The renowned photographer’s lesser known shots of working-class London life are on show at one of Clapton’s bookshops
Read MoreThe Fishwick Papers: East London’s printmakers
A group of Hackney artists pay tribute to the borough’s printmaking heritage with a new exhibition at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery
Read MoreWill the National Citizen Service stop young people rioting?
David Cameron says the scheme will restore values, responsibility and self-discipline. Its critics say it is too expensive and will not help disaffected youngsters
Read MoreHackney schools GCSE results 2011
Schools across the borough celebrate their best ever results
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