Chris Booth an Accountant from Dalston, cycle to and from work can add up to 10 miles a day, but all that will change later this month when he heads to Mexico and some varying terrain. Chris, 28, hopes to raise £3,500 for Macmillan Cancer on their 2011 Mexico Cycling Challenge which takes place in [...]
The besieged East End Gay Pride march has been cancelled. To many watching the unfolding events over the past weeks, it came as no surprise. Yesterday, one of its lead organisers, Raymond Berry resigned after it was revealed he was a founding member of the English Defense League (EDL) and still had ties with far [...]
Raymond Berry lead organiser of East End Gay Pride (EEGP) resigned yesterday after he could no longer deny his English Defence League affiliation. Following homophobic posters showing up in the East End, the group was formed by a group of friends and promptly began organising a march set for next month, to combat homophobia and [...]
Following the recent spate of homophobic hate stickers found across East London, including Shoreditch and Stoke Newington, a group has organised a march through the streets of East London on Saturday 2nd April. A newly formed group called East End Gay Pride (EEGP) want to respond and take a stance against homophobia in East London. [...]
With their move to new premises complete and the clamour of the first new show – Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s high profile The Painter – now behind them, I decided to go along to the Arcola on a more subdued evening to get a feel for the new place. For one week only, the theatre was hosting [...]
Police say they are not treating the death of the 21 year old, found dead in her Evering Road, Upper Clapton flat on Wednesday 2nd March, as suspicious. It is believed Ms Cattell was found in her bath tub by friends who called emergency services, but was unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene. A [...]
Agnes Sina-Inakoju- jury watched CCTV footage of the moment she was shot in her neck Sixteen year old Agnes Sina Inakoju died because of a feud between two Hackney gangs, the Old Bailey heard earlier this week. The promising Haggerston School pupil was shot down on April 14 2010 while waiting with friends to be [...]
An elderly woman was killed this morning after she was hit by 2 vehicles at the junction of Lower Clapton Rd and Urnswick Road. Witnesses say she was hit by a lorry, then a car went over her. A woman who works nearby told Hackney Hive, “I stopped outside the shop I work at just [...]
A 21 yr old fashion merchandiser and DJ who attended the same exclusive girls school as Sienna Miller, Jemima Khan and Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones, was found dead at her Upper Clapton flat just after 3:10 am on Wednesday 2nd March. Police and ambulance service arrived at Louise Cattell’s Evering Road flat, after receiving reports [...]
