The writing partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais is among the finest this country has ever produced. On television their impressive credentials include such classics as ‘The Likely Lads’, ‘Porridge’ and ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’. They have also created screenplays for the cinema, including two hugely entertaining films about the music business, ‘The Commitments’ [...]
Last Saturday (26 March) a number of Hackney based groups joined the ‘March for the Alternative’ from Trafalgar Square to Whitehall. Organisations such as the Hackney Refugee Forum, Hackney Alliance, Hackney Green Party and Hackney Public Transport User’s Group marched alongside several hundred groups from various parts of the UK in a show of solidarity [...]
Imagine having 44 carefully selected affordable designer gear and beautiful handmade jewelry, lined up for you to try on and buy. Imagine that place is not a crowded store up town, but a private apartment near you or even your home with your friends. Throw in some cup cakes, tea or champagne, like minded souls, [...]
In 2010 Stoke Newington resident, Dwayne Fields became the first Black Briton to walk from the most northern point of Canada to the magnetic North Pole, covering over 400 miles in 22 days (of which 16 days was a race) across snow and frozen ocean, when he competed in the Peary and Hansen Race with [...]
If you are a committed urbanite who is edgy at just the thought of a trip into the countryside, then ‘Wake Wood’ should give you the shivers. The film is set in one of those backwater villages, plentiful in horror fiction, where the inhabitants have just a passing knowledge of modernity and strong links to [...]
Screen legend, AIDS activist and renowned philanthropist Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday in Los Angeles at the age of 79. Taylor who had been besieged with health problems for decades, died of congestive heart failure at LA’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. One of the many causes she supported was The Pedro Youth Club, based in Hackney and one [...]
The boroughs Hasidic Jewish community are not always known for their colourful Joyous public displays, nor loud Yiddish music. Which is what made yesterdays celebration in Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington that more special and interesting to view. Both children and adults danced to music ‘pumped’ out of the back of trucks as they collected [...]
The average price for a House in Hackney fell by its largest margin in a single month in two years, according to the first reports from the Land Registry. The figures for January of this year show a 1.5% decrease in the price of all homes in the borough, amounting to an average loss of [...]
The junction of Urnswick Road and Lower Clapton Road was again the scene of an accident this evening. A police spokesperson said: “Police were called at 1905 hours on Sunday March 20 to Lower Clapton Road at the junction withUnswick Road following reports of a collision. “Officers, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were [...]
A female driver had to be cut out of her car, after it crashed into a lamppost along Queensbridge Road yesterday (Saturday 19 March) at approximately 8:45 am. Police, Paramedics, along with London Fire Brigade attended. The woman was air lifted to Royal London Hospital and Police have confirmed her injuries were non life threatening. [...]
