The beauty of putting foods together and being prepared
The third in our four-part series on eating well from a local nutritional therapist
Hackney Citizen
Stoke Newington Literary Festival unveils 2011 programme
Friday 3 – Sunday 5 June 2011, various venues
‘Big society’ tsar Lord Wei leaves post after less than a year
Cabinet office insists departure does not mark scaling back of project, but Labour say flagship policy is descending into farce
The 21 strides Phillips Idowu hopes will take him to Olympic gold
The British triple-jumper is getting closer to Jonathan Edwards’ 16-year-old world record
Barbican unveils Olympics arts festival
Programme includes theatre productions starring Juliette Binoche and Cate Blanchett, and major Bauhaus exhibition
Leona Lewis – interview
With a ‘more uptempo’, ‘darker’ album due out later this year, the superstar singer talks about what’s next
BBC Radio 1 announces Olympics music festival in Hackney
Two days, 100,000 people and six stages on Hackney Marshes, 23-24 June 2012
Britain’s youngest ‘hitman’ convicted of woman’s murder
Teenage gang member known as Riot was 15 when he killed Gulistan Subasi outside her Hackney home last year
Slavery claim women to receive payout from the Metropolitan police
Four awarded total of £20,000 after high court judge rules their allegations were not properly investigated
RSPB condemns killing of River Lea coots
A bird conservation charity has described the stoning of a nest of a mother bird and her chicks as ‘vile, repugnant and barbaric’
McDonald’s opens farm gates for Olympic borough schools
Hackney school children find out how the food that will feed London 2012 spectators and athletes is reared, grown and harvested – just don’t mention the chickens
Stoke Newington resident plunges off tower for St Mungo’s homelessness charity fundraiser
Melissa Houghton abseils from London’s tallest abseil-able building, at Guy’s Hospital
Hackney Labour councillor defects to Conservatives
In a surprise move, Cllr Linda Kelly joined the Tory benches at last night’s council AGM