Top Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney’s youth
A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough
Tracy McVeigh
Hackney riots: ‘The message when youth clubs close is that no one cares’
Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy