Olympic Torch route through Hackney announced
The One Hackney 2012 Festival will mark the Olympic Flame’s journey through the borough on Saturday 21 July
London 2012
Olympic Village social housing plans revealed
Six boroughs to get 107 homes between them for social housing in the post-Games ‘East Village’
Olympics expansion on Hackney Marshes ‘stifling’ local sports clubs and ‘vandalising’ land
Critics condemn Olympics as waste of money better spent on projects of real and lasting value to Hackney residents and the local environment
Olympics synchronised swimming fans left high and dry
Swim fans asked to swap events as Olympics organisers admit 10,000 tickets oversold
Houseboaters being ‘forced out’ of Olympics area
River Lea residents claim they are being priced out and uprooted from their community by British Waterways
Hackney school students bag Olympics jobs
Two hundred Hackney students working at Olympics to be paid London Living Wage after help from community campaign group
Concern over Hackney jobs as London 2012 media centre bidding opens
The future of the Olympic press and broadcast centre hangs in the balance amid concerns over jobs for local people
Which way to East Wick?
Hackney is to get a new neighbourhood which will be built on the site of the Olympic Park after the 2012 Games
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
‘RUN’ sculpture to be erected at Olympic Handball Arena in Hackney Wick
A glass and steel public artwork by internationally-renowned artist Monica Bonvicini will be installed in the Olympic Park next year
London 2012 Games set to miss green targets
The Olympic Delivery Authority fails to honour key promises to make the Olympics as sustainable as possible
Sign up now for London 2012 tickets – urges Hackney Olympic athlete Phillips Idowu
The Hackney-born triple jumper says winning in front of a home crowd next year will be a unique experience
Artists and architects Assemble to create Folly for a Flyover
The winners of the CREATE11 Art Award announced today are to involve local people in the making of a public art commission in the borough
Snowdome proposed as legacy for London 2012 Olympics broadcast and media centre
The UK company behind Ski Dubai wants to turn the Hackney Wick media hub into a winter sports resort
Olympics sex trafficking debate highlights media misinformation
There is little consensus about the impact the London 2012 Games will have on this illegal trade, say experts
London Last Days: the final countdown for the East End
The Citizen talks to Abi Weaver and Daniel Rugo about their film on life after the Olympics