Hackney Unison slams council’s ‘sham’ library cuts consultation
The union claims Town Hall bosses have already made up their minds about the future of the borough’s library services
George Hill
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
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
Sporting Hackney Football Club celebrates 25th anniversary
Saturday 14 May 2011, Hackney Marshes
Hackney teenager caught with loaded gun and clown mask on train
Mitchell Woods of Haggerston is jailed for three years after being found in possession of a semi-automatic weapon and ammunition