Has it been 3 years already? Hard to believe it was the year I started this site and first announced, what is fast becoming a must go to event on the literary calendar. Festival organizers say this year, The Stoke Newington Literary Festival will be a refreshing alternative to the union jack teapots and [...]
Two men who kidnapped and tortured two brothers in Stoke Newington five years ago, were convicted yesterday (Tuesday 6 March) at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Ex-para trooper, Anthony Malone, 40, who served in Ulster, was found guilty of two counts of kidnap, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of actual bodily harm against [...]
Police were called at 1:25 am today, after reports of gun-shots in the vicinity of Burma Road and Green Lanes A man thought to be in his early 40′s, was found suffering from gun shot wounds to his face and has since been taken to an East London hospital, where his injuries have been described [...]
Last night, Turkish and kurdish shopkeepers along Kingsland High Road and in Stoke Newington wasn’t having any of it, when confronted by rioters trying to gain access to their shops. They took them on and saved their businesses after seeing the response from emergency services to riot hot spots. It began at about 9.30, within [...]
The Friends of Kynaston Gardens have been awarded £48,225 from Groundwork UK and the Big Lottery Fund’s Community Spaces programme to improve the site. The gardens, in Stoke Newington, are owned and managed by Hackney Council. Unfortunately it has suffered from anti-social behaviour and street drinking. The new design includes community food growing beds to [...]
If there is one thing trendy white urban middle classes (affectionately known as WUMC’s) in London like, it’s a good fight on their own turf when they feel threatened by big corporations or local government. Inspired in part by snobbery, it’s tribalism with a hint of smugness, and self-entitlement thrown in with a pinch of [...]
Please come along and support women in comedy at this heat of the Funny’s Funny Female Comedian of the Year. We have a great lineup of 12 female comedians in this special showcase: Josephine Lacey Sadia Azmat Christine Edwards Hannah Deasy Maddy Nebraska Mary Magdalene Kirsty Mac Kerry Billson jennifer burcham Nena Edwards Samantha Hannah [...]
Around 20 homes along Northwold Road have been evacuated following a burst water main, and fire fighters are helping residents to prevent water entering other buildings by using sandbags. Homes affected are between Fountayne and Durlston Rd. A spokeswoman for Thames Water said: “We have shut the 30-inch main to prevent any more water escaping and [...]
When Debora Robertson returned to her Stoke Newington home on Monday morning (9th May), from walking her dog Barney, she found her 8 month old kitten Prune laying on a sofa. After picking her up she noticed how lethargic Prune was, and her first thought was her kitten had eaten something toxic, but on closer [...]
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 [...]
