Yet another shooting in Hackney, this time in Clapton. Police & paramedics where alerted at 4:20pm this afternoon to a shooting on Powell Road E5, where they found a 19 year old male with gun shot wounds. He was transported to a hospital where his condition is described as serious. When asked if life threatening, [...]
If you were a boy in the 1980s then ‘The A-Team’ probably formed a vital and exciting part of your Saturday teatime viewing. This TV show followed the adventures of four unlikely ‘soldiers of fortune’ who would rescue the downtrodden and helpless through a combination of ingenuity, welding equipment and notoriously inaccurate weaponry. When viewed [...]
Paramedics are currently treating a man who fell through a roof in Stoke Newington Church Street this afternoon. Emergency services were alerted at about 3:35pm (July 30th). Air ambulance helicopter and paramedics are believed to be still treating the man, who is thought to have head injuries at the scene (4:25pm).
A new Saturday market was launched just down the road from the already established and successful Broadway Market, a few weeks ago. Once a derelict building that was a community college, Netil House on Westgate Street, London Fields, was restored by Creative Work Partners and is now a thriving hot bed of young creative businesses, that include [...]
A man believed to be 37 years old was attacked and stabbed on Stoke Newington High Street, early this morning. Police and emergency service were alerted at 2:07am, to an incident outside the Cost Cutter store, where they found the man with stab wounds. He was taken to an East London hospital, where he is [...]
Two men and a 16 year old charged in connection the shooting death of 16 year old Agnes Sina-Inakoju last April, will go on trial at the Old Bailey in October. Mohammed Smoured, 20, from London Fields and Leon Dunkley, 21, from Lower Clapton are charged with murder and possession of a firearm with intent [...]
Stuart Derrick reviews, Stoke Newington resident and Birkbeck College Lecturer, Jonathan Kemp’s first novel. First time novelist Kemp’s book is an intriguing look at the homosexual experience through the prism of male prostitution over the past 100 years. Episodic in structure, it flits between the lives of three men living in London in different times. [...]
“Consistency, Consistency, Consistency!” That was the message given by John Connolly in the Proposition team’s opening speech at the inaugural Legal & Compliance Summer Internship Program Student Debate ‘Increasing voter participation in UK General Elections’ held on Wednesday, 21st July 2010. The event, which was the culmination of a four week internship programme at UBS, [...]
With Nigerians making up a large group of West Africans, who call Hackney home, it’s only fitting a festival celebrating the rich cultural heritage of the Yoruba people should take place in in the borough. So you can imagine my excitement, when I heard The Festival of Yoruba Arts would be held in Stoke Newington. [...]
Summer is here, the school holidays have began, but what to do with the children. Don’t panic, children and even hard to please teenagers will find a host of activities within the borough. There are playgroups and play centres for toddlers, face painting, story telling at the library and even a teddy bears picnic. Older [...]
