Hackney’s famous art venue to be demolished

Popular bar-cum-art space The Foundry is to be demolished after Hackney Council granted planning permission to a Hotel building owned by the Park Plaza Group last night.
The fashionable east London art venue was originally set up in  1998 by current manager Jonathan Moberly with ex-KLF musician Bill Drummond. It will be pulled down to set [...]

BNP to stand in local mayoral elections

The British National Party has announced it will field candidates for the May mayoral elections in Lewisham and Hackney, sparking outrage from anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations.

Jobs fear remains as green shoots finally show

 
The United Kingdom is officially out of recession, according to new figures released on Tuesday. But what does this actually mean for the people of East and South London?
Statistics show that the British economy grew by 0.1% in the last three months of 2009. This comes after the longest period of economic contraction, during which [...]

Holocaust survivor heckled in Lewisham

An 86-year-old Holocaust survivor was heckled by pro-Israelis while giving a controversial talk on Wednesday night at Goldsmiths University in Lewisham.
Dr. Hajo Meyer delivered his talk, ‘The Misuse of the Holocaust for Political Purposes’, on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day .

A group of midwives like no other

After 15 years of offering personal care to mothers-to-be in deprived areas, the Deptford-born Albany midwives practice has been forced to close.