Panzanella: discovering the pleasures of peasant food
Food historian Gillian Riley shares her version of a Tuscan summer classic
Hackney Citizen
‘This land is our land’: the Lammas Day ‘riots’ of August 1892
Benjamin Mortimer recounts a Victorian fight for local land
Open letter from Hebron
Human rights monitor Chris Venables shares experiences of the West Bank in letter home to Hackney
Jitters and elation as A Level students pick up results
Students from Clapton Girls’ Academy and BSix College share the stories of their success
Stopping mad: Council calls on TfL to give Hackney two Crossrail 2 stations
Cabinet Member for Regeneration says having only one stop would ‘waste the potential’ of the borough
Person and Plate: dinner at Stoke Newington’s Aziziye Mosque
Over a veg stew, ex-Hackney Speaker Faizullah Khan talks cleanliness, cancer and Jerusalem
I don’t have an uncle who works in media… so is a creative career out of the question?
6-9pm Friday 15 July, afterparty 9pm – late
Leader — the legacy of the 2011 riots
Three years on from the riots, are we preparing for more civil unrest?
Titbits- Trash talk and historic horticulture
Scythes and a herd of cows replace tractors on Walthamstow Marshes but is the Council’s latest recycling initiative equally as primitive?
Bringing up girls: An interview with Melissa Benn
Benjamin Mortimer speaks to Melissa Benn about the state of schooling in the UK and her new book ‘What should we tell our daughters?’
Education in Hackney: Cllr Bramble on the challenges ahead
Newly appointed Cabinet Member for Children’s Services on her new role and priorities for the coming school year
Hackney officer found guilty of assault spared jail
Sgt Pilbeam handed two year suspended sentence after being found guilty of assaulting mentally ill prisoner
Thousands attend Shomrim crime prevention open day
A community event organised by the orthodox Jewish Neighbourhood Watch saw thousands gather at Clapton Common
Register, criminalise or ignore? Hands tied over Stamford Hill yeshiva schools
Unregistered faith schools are no secret, but they aren’t likely to enter the state system anytime soon
Revealed: cost of Council’s purchase of Leonard Street gallery
Mystery solved as Town Hall accounts show it spent nearly £4.5m on purchase of Shoreditch gallery