Food for thought: Hackney nutrition experts offer healthy eating advice to students
Many rely on caffeine and sugar for a mental boost, but there are more natural ways to stay focused
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Novelist Alan Gibbons on why he is opposed to forced academisation and ‘exam factories’
After academy schools plan for all borough’s schools is revealed, former teacher turned children’s fiction writer gives his views
‘Soon there’ll be nowhere left to go’ – Hackney residents reveal ‘bad landlord’ experiences
Constant rent increases and unfinished repairs are among Hackney residents’ complaints following a survey of the capital’s renters
Action! Hackney Picturehouse staff to strike over cinema’s refusal to pay London Living Wage
Cinema workers are calling on Hackney Picturehouse to pay its staff a minimum of £9.40 an hour – a figure calculated as the basic cost of living in London
Allotment tenants evicted from Olympic Park reap harvest in new plots
The Manor Gardens allotments were gifted to East Londoners ‘in perpetuity’ over a century ago but were swept away to clear space for London 2012
Hackney youth project founder among finalists for Pride of Britain Awards
Hackney woman turned life around and became a youth worker after falling in with wrong crowd in her teens
Hackney MP Diane Abbott lands top job in Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet
Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington promoted to shadow home secretary
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest: this year’s programme announced
East London’s cinemas, galleries, pop-up venues and basement clubs to host film screenings as well as experimental art, workshops, interactive walks and parties
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest: this year’s programme announced
East London cinemas, galleries, pop-up venues and basement clubs to host film screenings as well as experimental art, workshops, interactive walks and parties
Revealed: Hackney Council sprays around 1,200 litres of glyphosate in the borough each year
Weedkiller is ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’ according to World Health Organisation, but Town Hall says it has been declared safe by the EU
Efes Snooker Club owner’s new project given green light after son loses court bid
Yasar Akin and his son have been beset with licensing issues in the past. Now Hackney Council has granted them permission to open new venue
Sagardi – restaurant review: ‘The waiters wear wireless headsets, like they are in the secret service’
Sagardi offers a taste of northern Spain via Shoreditch – but does it translate well?
Atlas of Improbable Places – book review: ‘Informative and enthusiastic, scholarly and amusing’
Stoke Newington author Travis Elborough describes some of the strangest and most historically-obscure locations across the globe in his latest book
Guerrilla Girl power! Feminist 'masked avengers' come to East London to take on art world
The political art collective has been fighting prejudice in the art world for 30 years, with a major new exhibition of their work now open at the Whitechapel Gallery
Owner of Efes Snooker Club bids to build new Dalston restaurant and flats
Residents fear anti-social behaviour will rise if scheme gets green light from planners tonight
St Paul’s Way Foundation Primary School – the University Foundation School in the heart of East London
‘Outstanding’ school welcomes parents and children to their open days