Interview: Reverend Joyce Daley on the Hackney riots
A local minister gives her eyewitness account of last month’s civil unrest in the borough
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Interview: Made in Britain author James Gavin Bower on the Hackney riots
A Hackney novelist gives his take on the recent unrest
Third London Fields aquathlon announced
The increasingly popular multi-sport event is to be held on Sunday 2 October
Interview: Yvvette Edwards, Man Booker Prize longlister
Hackney-raised author’s début novel A Cupboard Full of Coats has met with great acclaim
Ozzy hops for hipsters’ tipple: London Fields Brewery opens
A new Hackney brewery is taking the artisanal approach to booze – with a bit of help from down under
Leona Lewis: the Hackney heroine has given Simon Cowell a lesson in taste
Collide singer talks epic spook-pop, riots and dodging Whitney style ballads with Sylvia Patterson
Donna Walker makes aMEND
Award-winning artist’s new collection comes to The Residence in Victoria Park Village
Dalston photo exhibition captures backstreet Delhi life
Father and son photographers document Indian city life from the 1950s to the 1970s
Infinite Blue: exhibition revisits life in Ceausescu’s Romania
Stefan Constantinescu’s first solo exhibition at Galerie 8 explores the notion of art in a totalitarian state
Colin O’Brien photography exhibition comes to Pages of Hackney
The renowned photographer’s lesser known shots of working-class London life are on show at one of Clapton’s bookshops
The Fishwick Papers: East London’s printmakers
A group of Hackney artists pay tribute to the borough’s printmaking heritage with a new exhibition at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery
Will the National Citizen Service stop young people rioting?
David Cameron says the scheme will restore values, responsibility and self-discipline. Its critics say it is too expensive and will not help disaffected youngsters
Hackney schools GCSE results 2011
Schools across the borough celebrate their best ever results
Residents speak out on Hackney riots at Clarence Road
Local people give their views at a get-together organised by church and community groups