A Hackney garden project has been granted a share of £800,000 in government funding for making the borough greener for the Olympic Games. A temporary garden on the Woodberry Down Estate in Stamford Hill, which is currently threatened by building works, will be relocated to a new site on derelict land by residents. Environmental regeneration [...]
Thursday – The Pale Blue Door @ Secret Dalston Location Friday – The Lonely Hertz Club @ The Nest £5 Saturday – Cake competition @ Telegraph Hill Festival Sunday – Food, Glorious, Food @ V&A Museum of Childhood Monday – Beyond Circus @ The Albany – Deptford Tuesday – Max Mara Art Prize for Women: [...]
Construction is moving forward at The Deptford Lounge, pledged to be “a new living room for the city” by Lewisham Council. Under plans approved in 2009 for Deptford Town Centre the lounge area is being built at the new Tidemill School site on Giffin Road
The artistic new underpass that runs beneath Norwood Junction Station has been revealed today.
Police have requested a review into the running of the club where a man was stabbed to death in the early hours of Sunday morning. Kelvin Easton, 23, from Tottenham, North London, was attacked with a champagne bottle at Boheme nightclub. Paramedics arrived at around 4.30am, but Easton was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two local restaurants have been awarded the honour of being placed in the “Top 25 best brunches in London.”
Opinions are divided about Saturday’s demonstration. Some suggest that the ‘black bloc’ faction, who were largely responsible for the window breaking and fire setting on Saturday, are just scarily narcissistic young people who really do believe that their actions are more important that the activity of the 400,000 or so others who marched peacefully.
A man and a woman from Croydon, whose two Rottweiler dogs attacked a couple, have been sentenced in court today. Alan Baker, 42, and Kelly Fulham, 39, were sentenced at Guildford Crown Court for not taking responsibility for their dangerous dogs and allowing them to run free in public places.
Brick Lane was thronged with Radiohead fans when frontman Thom Yorke turned into newspaper salesman in a stunt to promote the band’s new album.
The teenage hitman charged over the murder of a Turkish woman in Hackney was paid just £200 to carry out the killing, according to the prosecution. CCTV footage showed how Gulistan Subasi, 26, was shot fatally in the chest as she answered the front door on March 22 last year.
