A free, fun packed, family event with a green theme at its core is being held in London Fields, Hackney, on Saturday 5 June. Now in its fifth year, the BeReCreative event, a joint effort between Hackney Council’s Recycling Team and Green Champion network, aims to raise environmental and sustainable awareness in the borough. Building [...]
Just In A 36 year old man has been shot dead on Katherine Road in Forest Gate, E7. Police were called at 6:20pm after reports of gunshots. They confirmed one man was dead at the scene and two men injured, who were been transported to an East London hospital. Officers from Operation Trident are investigating [...]
Hackney’s Premier Laugh in Every Wednesday! Wednesday, 2 June Hackney School DropOut Comedy Bin — free entry, show 8pm Anatolia Bar, 253 Mare Street, London E8 3NS Jack Warner Mike Wood Russ Gregory Jonathan Pam Jill Baxter Gareth Kane Alex Love Dan Lees Manos Kanellos Peter Brooks Dean Roberts Katherine Brown Louis Law Gary Southam [...]
Join The Crew! The charity WORLDwrite, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund Young Roots programme, are offering a unique opportunity for new volunteers to join young documentary crews to plan and shoot short films and programmes on the suffragettes, the women who fought for and won the right to vote for women, starting with [...]
Different Strokes star Gary Coleman died at 12:05 PM Mountain Standard Time (7:05pm in English money ), he was only 42. Coleman suffered a brain hemorrhage after a fall at his Utah home on Wednesday and was taken to a local hospital. He was later transferred to the intensive care unit at Utah Valley Regional [...]
THE FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. COMPETITION WINNERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN TICKETS TO ANOTHER EVENT. We have two pairs of tickets to give away to the Apple Cart Festival in July. All you have to do is answer the following questions in an email: • What is the lingua franca of the South American country, which [...]
Police investigating the shooting in London Fields Park on Saturday 22 May, have arrested a 19 year old man. The man was arrested in Hackney yesterday evening May 26, taken into custody for questioning and has since been bailed, to return in June pending further enquiries. The shooting took place outside the park around 3.30 [...]
THIS FESTIVAL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE SEE THEIR WEBSITE. OUR COMPETION WINNERS INSTEAD RECEIVED FREE TICKETS TO FIELD DAY FESTIVAL It’s no secret London is the most “happening” city in the world and East London’s Hackney, the soul and rind of all things cool. Already spoiled with summer festivals established and new, in rolls in the [...]
Some residents and businesses in the Clapton area, were outside the new proposed Tesco Express, on Lower Clapton Road, last Sunday demonstrating against it’s opening. The retail unit on 144-146 Lower Clapton Road, has been empty since it was completed in 2006 and Tesco does not require planning permission, it does however require permission to [...]
Mike Marqusee talks about his book, If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jewat. Mike Marqusee’s book presents an account of the life of E V Morand, his Jewish-Irish grandfather, in inter-war New York. The book recounts Morand’s radical journey through religion and politics, his struggles with anti-Semitism and the twists and [...]
