The new owners of 229 Lower Clapton Road, are not receiving the same ecstatic and warm welcome the pub next door which opened on Thursday has. Much of Clapton and afar have been quite giddy about the prospect of the Clapton Hart opening. By Thursday morning it reached fever pitch and judging by the twitter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Advertising Feature For Stirling Ackroyd Estate Agents Unless you have been living under the most secluded rock possible, you will know what London will be hosting the Olympics next near after winning the rights to do so back in 2005. It will bring the attention of the world to the city and will generate millions [...]
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 [...]
Last year, a BBC World Service documentary began to chronicle the lives and hopes of people, living steps away from the Olympic Park. Earlier this month, journalist Nina Robinson returned to the large Clapton housing estate to continue filming. She talks with skeptical and hopeful residents about the legacy of the games, and what impact [...]
