The free school debate has been on going in Hackney for a while. Phillippa De’Ath gives a brief analysis, as to why this type of school could benefit from such an ethos. Currently over 400 parents support the vision for the Hackney New School. Many feel that, while there are now three (Ofsted-rated) outstanding secondary [...]
The woman dubbed the Hackney Heroine, Pauline Pearce, is stretching her 15 minutes of fame in a bid to win the next Britain’s Got Talent. If you remember, Pearce gained world-wide notoriety after her profane laden tirade at rioters on Clarence Road in Clapton went viral last summer. Since then, she has been interviewed numerous [...]
In east London, the best jobs aren’t going to local people. A new school aims to solve that.
When I first heard Dean Atta’s “I Am Nobody’s Nigger” on Sound cloud last week. I was rocked to the core. Not because he was telling anything new, but because I’d never associated that word with being the last word Stephen Lawrence heard or the the last words my African ancestors sold as slaves heard [...]
The East End is some times described as the cradle of Britain’s Jewish Community and over centuries, the cultural landscape has been a varied one and to this day is ever changing. In 1880 there were approximately 46,000 Jews in London, but by 1900 this figure had almost trebled to 135,000, and most were living [...]
A 19 year-old Hackney teenager has been charged with murdering 20 year-old Kirsty Treloar on Monday January 2nd. Myles Williams of Pond Farm Estate, in Millfields Road, Clapton has also been charged with the attempted murder of Kirsty’s 22 year-old brother Dean and 24 year-old sister Gemma. Kirsty Treloar, was abducted from her family home [...]
Police have named the woman found dead in an abandoned car as Kirsty Treloar, a twenty year old new mother of a one month old baby girl. The baby who was unharmed, was also taken from the address to hospital as a precaution. She remains in hospital under observation. Two other people were found at [...]
Stoke Newington resident, 29 year-old Dwayne Fields, is once again hoping to challenge the elements of another inhospitable part of the world – the South Pole. In 2010 Dwanye 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 [...]
East London gang drama starring Ashley Walters will return next year
A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough
