Hackney pupils pick up their GCSE results
Follow the latest from schools as the first students to be impacted by new GCSE reforms open those all-important envelopes
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Learning French by rote? Très ennuyeux! Dalston kids get into new habit with bilingual Sister Act performance
Rio Cinema performance of the musical version of the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film, taking place this Friday, will be the culmination of a two-week scheme run by Hackney’s Mind Your Language
Urswick is first school in Hackney to bag national equality award
Staff ‘extremely proud’ of tribute recognising the school’s commitment to challenging discrimination
GP practice for homeless people wins ‘Outstanding’ rating from health watchdog
Greenhouse Surgery director describes Care Quality Commission accolade as ‘an honour’ and welcomes ‘wonderful’ feedback from patients
Residents to boycott Finsbury Park Post Office stationery shop over merger
Campaigners hoping to save the current Crown Post Office drum up support as deadline for public consultation looms
Older people’s charity urges Hackney residents to ‘make a difference’ in new pilot project
Royal Voluntary Service launches trial in the borough which aims to reduce loneliness and ambulance call-outs for elderly neighbours
MIRRORS Festival tickets go on sale and first wave of lineup announced
The initial bundle of bands includes Los Campesinos!, the British country-rock stylings of Ultimate Painting and the buttoned-up New Jersey indie of Pinegrove
A-level results: Hackney falls short of national average despite rise in top grades
Borough’s 2017 cohort defies curriculum upheaval to maintain the gradual improvement in grades seen over recent years
Woodberry Down artist ‘comes clean’ as visually impaired as he celebrates 90th birthday with exhibition
Former evacuee and civil servant Peter Gosnell was ‘determined’ that curators did not find out about his registered blindness during the height of his artistic pursuits in the sixties and seventies
Rashan Charles: Full inquest delayed until next June
Grieving family must wait 10 months as coroner says it is ‘impossible to hold it sooner’
Hackney students get their A-level results
On the day pupils get their grades, we bring you the latest from schools across the borough
Homebrewing: Forest Road brewer gives advice on how to make it WORK
The story of Forest Road Brewing Company’s pale ale WORK began in Pete Brown’s Dalston garden – we bring you his tips on creating your own batches of beautiful beer
London Feminist Film Festival returns tomorrow
LFFF is based, as in previous years, at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, but the full programme includes many other talks, workshops, and is capped by a screening of Iranian film The Sealed Soil
Visions Festival / Institute of Light / Billy Smokes review: out here in the Fields
Find out why last weekend’s music festival was “irritating but frequently brilliant – much like London Fields itself”…
Mayor hails reopening of ‘fascinating’ Abney Park Chapel
‘Huge milestone’ reached as Stoke Newington’s gothic landmark is made available to the public for the first time since 2013
LGBT campaigners victorious as Joiners Arms saved from demolition – for now
‘The Joiner’s Arms is more than just a pub. It’s a community to the people who went there.’