Player 2: Press Start: a look at two new, local video game ventures
Hackney is set to get button-bashing all over again with the arrival of GamePad and Four Quarters East
River Lea
2016 – A look back on the year we woke up as strangers in a strange land
What have we learnt? What has changed? And what is likely to stay the same? As the year draws to a close, we look back on a momentous 12 months
‘Avid reeders’ use much-maligned plant to tackle pollution in River Lea
‘Army’ of reedbed volunteers are using nature to fight pollution in an operation to clean up East London’s waterways
Sir Steve Redgrave launches Lea Rowing Club boathouse
Olympic legend ‘delighted’ that new facility supports junior rowers
Along the Hackney Canal – book review: ‘A refined eye for the sublime’
Freya Najade’s stunning collection of photographs elevates a seemingly narrow subject into the realm of the sublime
Adrift: A Secret Life of London’s Waterways, review – ‘serious and fascinating’
Poetic, informative and thoroughly researched, Adrift is author Helen Babbs’s account of living on the canals and waterways of London
Counting East London’s eels as they ebb from the River Lea
Once omnipresent in culture and waterways, efforts are now under way to tally – and save – the area’s dwindling eel population
Drowning of teenager Jack Susianta who fled police was accident, inquest rules
Police reject criticism they seemed ‘hesitant’ to help as teenager disappeared in river Lea
Feral – Ulli Mattsson review: 'urging new water through old riverbeds'
Laplander Ulli Mattsson has penned an elegiac musical tribute to her homeland
Police seemed ‘hesitant’ to enter river Lea to help drowned teenager, inquest hears
Witness tells inquest that there ‘didn’t seem to be any sense of urgency’ to save Jack Susianta, who drowned after he was chased by police
Vinyl fantasy – The Record Deck casts anchor on the banks of the Lea
A floating record shop is making waves amongst music lovers and providing an alternative lifestyle for its owner
Man dies hours after being pulled out of River Lea
A passer-by alerted emergency services after spotting a pile of clothes and a bike on the towpath yesterday morning
Love the Lea festival returns to Walthamstow Marshes
Environmentally-friendly festival includes pond-dipping, water quality testing and taking photos and filming underwater
Beside the Leaside
Passionate canal lover Sam Napper captures life on the Lee Navigation in a series of dream-like photographs
Science and art combine to highlight River Lea pollution
Project to creatively document pollution in the River Lea produces some stunning results
Foam mountain engulfs River Lea
Environment Agency investigating after suspected detergent pollution at Lea Bridge Weir