Half Term At Hackney Bridge
Find out about all the free activities on offer if you’re looking for the ‘perfect family-friendly day out’
Olympic Park
Sewage flowed into East London’s Olympic Park wetlands six times during early summer heatwave
Campaigners say Thames Water’s failure to make data publicly available is ‘unacceptable in the 21st century’
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
Campaigners stage ‘satirical’ dodgeball protest outside oil giant’s clean energy festival
Activists, including local group Divest Hackney, take aim at Shell’s ‘sickeningly cynical’ Make the Future event
East End exhibitions – five of the best for October
Our regular look at the best exhibitions in and around the borough in the coming month features Hackney-based video games, sex shops, a Düsseldorf School legend and more
Fewer bins…less litter? Canal & River Trust plan to remove receptacles from towpaths meets concern
40 per-cent of litter bins could be removed from along the River Lea in a bid to prevent fly-tipping and “mistreatment”
Putting in a Shift – ideas from the public sought for new canalside community and business hub
Make Shift’s efforts to ‘transform underused urban space’ are currently being applied to Clarnico Quay, a disused site in between the Olympic Park and Hackney Wick
Violence erupts between football fans at Olympic stadium despite ‘robust policing’
Police called into action as supporters clash at last night’s match between West Ham and Chelsea at Hackney Wick stadium
Campaigners urge Olympic legacy chiefs to block concrete factory plans
Thousands sign petition condemning proposals for three concrete factories and an Asphalt plant at the Olympic Park
Residents fume at plans to scrap cyclists’ crossing at Olympic Park
Hundred people brave rain to protest at plans to turn popular Monier Road bridge at the Olympic Park into “dangerous rat-run”
Campaigners fight to save historic Swan Wharf stable block
‘Emblematic’ building should be retained, says heritage group
Decision on ‘harmful’ Fish Island luxury flats postponed
Affordable housing contributions and scale of the plans are ‘unacceptable,’ say campaigners
Olympic Park to hold weekend of celebrations to mark opening
From this weekend the home of London 2012 will be fully accessible
Legacy chiefs offer free Olympic Park bus tours
Public are given the chance to look in on the Olympic Park redevelopment
River Lea towpath closure troubles residents
LOCOG claims the River Lea Navigation towpath has been closed to the public for ‘security reasons’
Post-Games Olympic Park reopening will help create ‘sustainable neighbourhoods’
Legacy will help London ‘steer it out of recession and on to long term prosperity’ says Mayor Boris Johnson