Thames Water slammed by residents for ‘inadequate’ response to Lea Bridge floods
‘We don’t want to see this any more in Hackney, this should be the last time. It takes its toll on everyone’
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Dalston arts venues to unite for this year’s Winter Weekend
Community-led event will see galleries open up to celebrate the area’s 150-year association with the arts
Legal row brewing between campaigners and council over Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall accused of ‘riding roughshod’ over local people but states legal challenge to plans has no grounds
UK’s only floating record shop docks in Hackney for the winter
After a month of repairs to the canal boat it calls home, The Record Deck is back to business on the River Lea
DriveNow – now in more of London
Join for free and get £20 credit to try flexible car sharing
Mayor of London pledges £25,000 for Clapton toilet revamp – but campaigners must raise the same amount in the next month to get it
Local group has been working with the council since 2014 to turn an abandoned loo into a community space
Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London, book review: ‘Unusual in its diversity’
‘Real pleasure’ to be found in this 500-page collection of essays and literature centred around urban renewal
‘Big step forward’: Hackney Council to get half of its power from renewables by April 2019
Town Hall proposes working with other local authorities ‘to put rocket boosters under investment in renewable energy’
Felipe Baeza, Maureen Paley, exhibition review: ‘Rupture and regeneration’
The Mexican-born artist’s first solo UK show explores migration and mythology
Action plan to contain multimillion pound overspend at Homerton Hospital
‘We will have an overspend here, but we are working with the Homerton to deal with it as fast as we can,’ say CCG
Andi’s Wadadli Kitchen, Stoke Newington, food review: ‘Family and flavour on the menu’
The Great British Menu judge has rebranded her Stoke Newington haunt to reflect her Antiguan roots – and it does not disappoint
Council’s use of embedded Home Office staff criticised as part of ‘hostile environment’
Project 17 and Hackney Green Party urge Town Hall to think again on ‘very intimidating’ policy
Street artist unveils First World War mural in Shoreditch to mark Remembrance Day
Jerome Davenport, also known as Ketones6000, previously painted a tribute to suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst in nearby Bow
Hackney writer wins prestigious flash fiction award
Tim Craig placed first in the Bridport Prize for his very short story
‘Grim reading’: Net loss of hundreds of social rent homes expected under Woodberry Down plans
Town Hall contest figures though unable to directly refute them due to poor record-keeping in the 2000s
Menace Beach, Oslo, live music review: ‘No better way to spend a Thursday night’
The few there to witness it were treated to a special performance by the Leeds five-piece