Slave’s Lament – an art film with "raw immediacy" from Mile End auteur
A Robert Burns song is given a reggae makeover in a film by Matt’s Gallery artist Graham Fagen
Hackney Citizen
Titbits – hipster brewing, Twitter pruning and the canine Tony Hawk
Read the column that pecks at the crumbs of what’s going on in the borough…
Rio Cinema workers to strike over living wage and redundancies
Staff at the Dalston cinema are demanding to be paid the London Living Wage
Stik’s NHS artworks to be auctioned in aid of Homerton Hospital
Graffiti artist hopes to raise thousands of pounds for the hospital which he says was once ‘an essential place of my survival network’
Rio Cinema workers to strike over living wage and redundancies
Workers at the Dalston cinema are demanding to be paid the London Living Wage
Hackney environmental lawyers welcome London Mayor’s vow to combat air pollution
‘Today’s announcement should send a clear message to the UK government,’ says ClientEarth
Four found guilty of Marcel Addai gang murder
Hoxton gang members face life in prison over fatal knife attack on teenager
Government spends over £100,000 fighting air pollution case against Hackney lawyers
Department of Environment and Rural Affairs spent at least £105,000 of taxpayers’ money in court challenges over illegal air pollution
People want terraces not tower blocks, says housing crisis expert
We don’t have to build up to solve London’s housing crisis, says co-founder of research institute
Azealia Banks axed from Hackney music festival after racist rant at Zayn Malik
US rapper was due to perform at Rinse Born & Bred festival in Haggerston Park, but has been told she’s no longer welcome after Twitter meltdown
‘Ban barbecues on London Fields,’ demand residents left fuming over heatwave litter
Council says it will step up security during hot weather after London Fields was left covered in rubbish
Residents and revellers at loggerheads as night-time economy row reignites
Town Hall runs consultation for second time following flawed attempt last summer
Petition launched after receptionist from Hackney ‘sent home for not wearing heels’
Actor was sent home from a corporate receptionist job without pay after refusing to wear high heels
Stephen Staunton's 'dramas of colour' make Headway in Bethnal Green this month
Stephen Staunton started painting his ‘patchwork dramas of colour’ after he sustained a brain injury
Abney Park Trust slams Stoke Newington greengrocer’s expansion plans
Charitable trust fears for character of the historic park’s gates after shop’s planning application is submitted
Obituary – Barry Hunt
Tributes paid to homeless man who was a friendly face around Hackney Central