Princess of Wales – review
The Princess of Wales in Clapton has a more homely feel than the average East London pub
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Two charged with criminal damage as 100 car tyres slashed in Stamford Hill
Shomrim say Volvos and people-carriers targeted as 60 cars are damaged in the Jewish Community
Charity Commission rules on ‘conflict of interest’ between councillor’s charity and business
Report finds Cllr Michael Desmond was landlord to tenant referred from charity as ‘short term measure’
Emma Ware: sustainable jewellery for the 21st century
Resourceful designer makes jewellery using reformed materials
Win tickets for Jonny Woo’s East London Lecture
Jonny Woo looks back on how Shoreditch became the centre of all things cool at his East London Lecture at the Rose Lipman Building. Win a pair of tickets for the opening night here
How to design happiness into your life
Feeling blue? A new book analyses the psychology of happiness and offers tips on how to achieve it
Boris Johnson to intervene as Christmas evictions threaten New Era families
Mayor’s office to write to Westbrook Partners after US firm backtracks on promise to freeze rents on Hoxton estate
Ofsted under fire over inspection at Stamford Hill Jewish school
Secularists question Jewish school ‘good’ rating amid claims inspection failed to address evolution and sex education
Jack London goes down and out in The People of the Abyss
Reissue of Jack London’s socialist expose from 1903 with original photographic plates aims to shock with its depiction of early 20th-century poverty
Vandalism and the red hands of William Gladstone
Behind the red-handed statue of William Gladstone in Bow Churchyard is a story of silencing and resistance
East London Suffragettes: 'more diverse than middle-class women marching around dressed in white'
New book commemorates a hundred years since a group of East End women led by Sylvia Pankhurst set up a splinter group of suffragettes
Volunteers chip in to create brand new mosaic in Hackney Downs Pavilion
Hackney Mosaic Project works with volunteers to make glass and ceramic ‘Roman-inspired’ artwork depicting animal chase
Iranian activist TV channel is operating out of Hackney Downs
Zanan TV grew out of the 2009 Green Movement and aims to fight for greater freedom for women in Iran
St Mary’s Secret Garden grows with generous Hackney Giving
Garden of healing gets a new lease of life on its 25-year anniversary
Benyon firm pulls out of Hoxton’s New Era Estate over rent hike furore
Residents say Benyon exit is ‘major victory’ but now must fight US property investors Westbrook Partners for their homes
Everlasting Lives exhibition at St Joseph's hospice
Photojournalist Eléonore de Bonneval asked patients at St Joseph’s Hospice to choose possessions that tell intimate stories about their lives. Here three patients reveal three of their choices