Chocolate Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Pineapple Gelato & Coconut Shard What is becoming a popular Hackney gastronomic event is just a few days away, so if you have missed out on previous sold out secret dinners hosted by Vegan Peasant, haven’t made plans for this weekend or still looking for something to do, you will [...]
Eighty gold coins minted between 1854 and 1913 found in a Stoke Newington back garden last year, will be returned to the descendants of a German refuge. The coins, which constituted the smuggled savings of Martin Sulzbacher, a Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1938, are the property of his son Max Sulzbacher, Dr Andrew [...]
Bright, popular, rebellious and creative, 21-year-old Louise Cattell had everything to live for. Then she made a fatal mistake. She took the party drug ketamine and was found dead in the bath by her flatmate. There are 125,000 other ketamine users in the UK. Louise’s parents want to make sure it never happens to any of them…
An Old Bailey judge has sentenced Leon Dunkley and Mohammed Smoured to 32-year minimum terms. After six days of deliberation, both were found guilty this morning of murdering Agnes Sina Inakoju. Dunkley 22 and Smoured 21, were both members of the notorious London Fields Boys gang and were out to attack a member of the [...]
Two gang members were found guilty of murdering 16 yr old Agnes Sina Inakoju, today at the Old Bailey and face life sentences. Leon Dunkley 22, of Kenninghall Road, E5 and Mohammed Smoured, 21 of Hopwood Walk, E8 were both found guilty at the Old Bailey of her murder and possessing a firearm with intent [...]
Today 229 Lower Clapton Road is an eyesore of a dilapidated empty building on the edge of Lea Bridge roundabout, and now the pet project of a group wanting to restore it to it’s original use as a cinema. After it ceased being a cinema, it became a popular and successful night club, called ‘Dougies’ [...]
If there is a blue print on how to gentrify a down heel area, it would read something like this: Find low income area blighted by crime (must have period houses, boarded up cheap abandon warehouses and boarded up storefronts. ) Buy cheap and renovate. Hope to hell that enough like-minded souls do the same [...]
A celebration of youth, organized by Hackney Quest: Based on the traditional African concept of Ubuntu, the event aims to bring together people from all walks of life to promote community, love, unity, mutual respect and so much more. The idea behind this event was driven by the youth of Hackney Quest following the positive [...]
