Ten teenagers arrested for repeated robbery of riot-hit newsagent
Group of 15-17 year-olds target Clarence Convenience Store, one of the shops worst hit in the 2011 riots
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Dressing up at London Collections: Men
East London menswear designers went to town with costume and make-believe at London Collections: Men
Leader — A tale of two cities
Council is entering into a high-stakes battle with private sector landlords, but will they emerge victorious?
Council joins bid to impose nightly accommodation rent cap on private sector
London Councils reach agreement as spiralling costs for short-term housing forces boroughs into bidding wars
Titbits — Handbags, prize gags and glow-in-the-dark posters
Doubts over whether the council’s ‘edgy’ signs are working, and will Mayor Pipe and Cllr Simche Steinberger ever patch things up?
‘End of an era’ for Abney Park as council reclaims management
Abney Park Trust ‘proud of its achievements’ over the past 23 years as managers of the park and cemetery
Happy Ending at the Arcola – stage review
Terminal cancer is the subject of new musical Happy Ending
Snow in Paradise: How a boy from Hoxton swapped crime for Islam
Snow in Paradise is an East End gangster film based on the true story of screenwriter Martin Askew
World’s first ‘mindfulness opera’ to go ahead
Lost in Thought is based on an extended meditation and sees performers and audience members do yoga, eat and wash up
Pensioners party at Posh Club with ‘Ritz-style’ champagne tea
First rule of Posh Club is ‘no riff-raff’ as guests enjoy raucous entertainment and fancy food
East London Painting Prize opens for entries
Bow Arts-run prize offers East London painters the chance to win £10,000 and a solo exhibition
Sex Shop exhibition to open this month
Transition Gallery is to be decked out with dildos and fetish objects for Sex Shop exhibition
Police investigate alleged attempted rape in Abney Park cemetery
Victim being supported by specially trained police officers as enquiries continue
Hackney artists to stand in the General Election
Two Hackney artists are the latest to announce they are running for Parliament. We speak to them about their political ambitions
Kay Adshead: 'I never thought I would be seeing women shot in the street for wanting an education'
Playwright Kay Adshead talks about giving a generation of forgotten, ignored and deleted women protesters a voice in her play The Singing Stones
The Singing Stones – stage review: 'reflecting a familiar feeling of impotence'
The Singing Stones carries an important message about the plight of women during the Arab Spring but suffers from a lack of structure