The Clapton Festival is back for a second year on 15th, 16th and 17th June. The three day event sees a packed schedule of activities which will make up a community showcase for all age groups to enjoy. The festival came to life in 2011 when a group of local residents wanted to host a [...]
Scroll down for updates. Police were called to Sewdley Street in Clapton at 9:06 pm on Monday night, after a gun shot was heard. They found nobody injured, but witnesses say they saw a person peddle away on a bike, shortly after the shot rang out. A police spokesman told Hackney Hive “a 12 year [...]
Police are appealing for information and witnesses after three linked knife point robberies took place on Thursday 12 January, between 9:30 pm and 10:00 pm in Ashenden Road, E5 and Glyn Road, E5. On all three occasions, the robbers targeted lone females forcing them to hand over their hand bags containing bank cards and [...]
Police say officers monitoring CCTV camera in Clapton last night, noticed 3 suspicious males loitering on bikes. At 11:30 pm a patrol car was despatched to the area. Shots were fired towards the patrol car on Mandeville Street and the 3 males made off over a nearby foot bridge. The car was not hit [...]
It appears someone was sentenced for those crimes today. Reiss Hunter of Paradise Park, Lea Bridge Road, E5 was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment on each of four counts of robbery and a further 4 years for an attempted robbery. The sentences will run concurrently. Back in December 2010, I reported about a series of [...]
Residents living near the Lea Bridge Conservation area and a former pub that is being converted into a Sikh temple, have raised concerns over the way the conversion is being handled, and believe it may be structurally unsafe in it’s present state. The Ships Aground pub at 144 Lea Bridge Road, is within Lea [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TOMMY WAS FOUND YESTERDAY 3, FEBRUARY AND HAS BEEN REUNITED WITH HIS OWNER Tommy has been missing since Sunday from Clapton (Kenninghall road, Maury road and Evering road). More details and downloadable poster on the Hackney Hive forum
Babies as young as a few weeks old will soon be able to take part in an award-winning swimming course in Hackney when classes open next month. Recently voted the UK’s Best National Baby & Toddler Development Activity, Water Babies enables babies to swim underwater as well as on the surface. It is designed to [...]
