Tracy McVeigh – Hackney Citizen

Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney’s youth

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 30 October 2011 at 15:20

A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough

Hackney riots: ‘The message when youth clubs close is that no one cares’

By Hackney Citizen | Saturday 13 August 2011 at 22:36

Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy