East End directors get their shorts on for the London Film Festival
Short films about dating culture and a boy’s religious struggles provide diverse portraits of the East for this year’s BFI extravaganza
Hackney Citizen
Fox traps removed from Clissold Park as last-ditch petition forces council rethink
Council puts plans to ‘humanely kill’ foxes in deer enclosure on hold due to public outcry
Former Kingsland Fire Station to become free school
London Fire Brigade Union says Mayor of London’s decision to close station is a ‘travesty’
Art review – The Poor Door: 'a mini-Dismaland'
Activist artists take on the housing crisis with exhibition at Hackney Downs Studios
Hackney Council to cull foxes in Clissold Park
Wildlife specialists left baffled as council says foxes in the deer enclosure will be ‘disposed of’ because of health risks
Refugee services in Hackney struggling with cuts and rent hikes
Organisations forced to relocate out of the borough because of rising rents
Octagon – stage review: poetry that 'shivers your timbers…and sizzles your spine'
Poetry hotshots spit out their rhymes in a battle for poetry supremacy in Octagon at the Arcola
Brenda – stage review: 'detached from the commonplace'
The Yard’s run of demanding and socially perceptive plays continues with Brenda
Parents ‘dismayed’ over plans to stack flats on Hackney Downs schools
Petition launched against radical proposals to reshuffle two primaries and build mixed-use schemes
Salmon smokery H. Forman & Son in the pink over protected status
Salmon from Hackney Wick to become first London food to be awarded Protected Geographical Indication by EU
How the Berlin Wall became a catalyst for creativity
After the Fall at Red Gallery revisits the unique art and dance music scene of post-Wall Berlin
Va-va zoom! Photomonth is upon us once more
What self-respecting photography lover would look further than East London this month?
Free school reveals plans for derelict Hackney Central Police Station
The Olive School proposes to refurbish the Grade II listed police station and construct a three-storey block in the back yard
London Fashion Week: East End designers go back to the 80s
Nostalgia for the decade of Dallas and denim jackets was a recurring theme for East London designers at London Fashion Week
Using my religion: the making of Chewing Gum's Michaela Coel
Star’s strict religious upbringing on an East London estate proved the catalyst for her new TV comedy in which nothing is off limits
Teenage singer-songwriter wins Boris Johnson’s busking competition
City Academy student Josh Tenor walks away with youth prize at Mayor of London’s Gigs