While cycling to work at a charity in Hackney, from her home in Bow, on the morning of Wednesay 10th March, 28 year old Shivon Watson and a skip lorry attempted to make a left turn as they reached the roundabout at the intersection of Victoria Park Road and Lauriston Road, in South Hackney. Within [...]

Hackney Council and the Police are asking residents to take part in a project, where they will be helping to look into some of the problems related to anti-social behaviour in Hackney. From now until 23 April, Hackney Council wants to find fifteen volunteers from across Hackney to support the community project, which has received [...]

Police are urging members of the public who were in the vicinity of Amhurst Park in the early hours of Sunday morning, when Godwin Larson along with two of his friends were attacked, to come forward with any information “no matter how insignificant”. Mr Larson a rapper and aspiring footballer was pronounced dead at the [...]

Adam Foulds is a poet turned novelist and a young British author who has been my favourite discovery since opening the shop, so I’m very excited that he’s coming to the shop. “The Quickening Maze” is based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840 and centres on the first [...]

Private View for Amy Green’s “Drawings: A Show of Small Gifts.” This event has been featured in Time Out’s First Thursday Top 5 listing and is kindly sponsored by Kopparberg – Cider of Sweden – so free cider all night! The poet Stephane Mallarme saw that the making and effect of poetry is deeply similar [...]

The Teenager killed yesterday morning, 27 March in Amhurst Park Road has been named as Godwin Nii Lawson, a 17-year-old aspiring footballer from Enfield. He was found with stab wounds along with two other men at 1:50am on Amhurst Park Road near the junction with Durley Road and was pronounced dead at the scene. Two [...]

A young man believed to be in his late teens was stabbed to death in Stamford Hill, during the early hours of this morning. Police and paramedics were called at approx 1:50 am on Saturday 27 March to reports of three males assaulted in Amhurst Park, N16. On arrival they found 3 men suffering from [...]

A 27 year old man was arrested on Wednesday 24 March, in connection with the murder of a woman on the Kingsmead Estate in Homerton on Monday 22 March. He was bailed late on Thursday, 25 March to return pending further inquiries. Gulistan Subasi, a Turkish national was visiting her mother in Homerton, Hackney, when [...]

Police sealed off Allen Road in Stoke Newington yesterday afternoon, after reports of gunshots being fired at about 4:30pm. A local Stoke Newington Tweeter posted his observations as he saw it, soon after the incident and spoke to witnesses and police at the scene. The witness who heard two gun shots then saw three or [...]

A 59 year old man is in critical but stable condition after smashing into a police car in Islington, that was on it’s way to a shooting incident on Wilton Estate in Hackney, yesterday evening. The police car had it’s light flashing and sirens on when it met with the cyclist. The shooting incident left [...]