More than 100 stage performers protest against plans to sell off LGBT+ club in Bethnal Green
The rally was organised by union Equity after owners of working men’s club signalled intention to sell up
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Murder investigation launched after boy, 15, stabbed to death in Hackney
Officers appeal for witnesses following stabbing near Hackney Downs yesterday afternoon
‘Real lifeline’: Hackney Foodbank awarded £20k to help families during the summer holidays
The charity will use the National Lottery funding to provide supermarket vouchers
General Election 2024: Hackney South and Shoreditch results
Meg Hillier retains constituency for Labour with close to two thirds of the vote
General Election 2024: Hackney North and Stoke Newington results
Diane Abbott holds the seat for Labour with a resounding win
Patrick Pinkerton wins Cazenove ward by-election for Labour
Pinkerton beats Tory candidate by just 136 votes
Hackney Wick exhibition to honour women’s rights icon Emmeline Pankhurst
Uprising at Nasty Gallery will also delve into gender inequality in the art world
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‘If you think you can, you can’: Philanthropist Sir Jack Petchey OBE dies aged 98
Petchey’s charity has invested over £170m in youth projects across east London and Essex
Artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum reimagines a colonial outpost in first major solo UK exhibition
The Netherlands-based artist’s work will fill the Barbican’s Curve gallery from mid-September
‘Intimate and poignant’: Upcoming photography exhibition celebrates lives of Bengalis in London’s East End
Bethnal Green’s Four Corners Gallery hosts a selection of photographs documenting the community over the past 50 years
‘Absolute privilege’: East London health boss Lorraine Sunduza awarded OBE
Sunduza, chief executive of the East London NHS Foundation Trust, recognised for her work in mental and community health
Alsatian ‘back to normal’ after being rescued from fire in Dalston
Kiko was pulled out of a 14-storey block of flats on Tyssen Street earlier this week
Local stars to headline fundraising gala for Stoke Newington community
Comedian Rob Deering and poet Tim Wells will perform at the Fabulous FUNdraiser next week
Windrush grant winner Wayne Snooze to have his art displayed on billboards across Hackney
The artist’s Jamaica-inspired screen prints will be on show from next week