The Metropolitan Police have announced that they have arrested a 19 year old man in connection with the shooting of an innocent bystander from Bethnal Green at London Fields on Saturday afternoon (22 May). He has been “bailed to a date in early June pending further inquiries.” Detectives hunting down the gunman or gunmen responsible have [...]

Photographer and writer Caroline Irby spent fifteen months finding,

The condition of a 27-year-old man shot during an incident at a festival on London Fields on Saturday afternoon is improving. He was taken to hospital after receiving what is believed to be a gunshot wound. This followed a fight breaking out adjacent to London Fields where an all-day festival was taking place. The aftermath [...]

The Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott, has

  Hackney South and Shoreditch After a fourteen hour wait, the incumbent Labour candidate Meg Hillier was named MP

After a fourteen hour wait, the incumbent Labour candidate Meg Hillier was named MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch in the General Election. Ms Hillier secured a second term in the constituency with 23,888 votes; a 55% share of the ballot. Dave Raval of the Liberal Democrats came second with 9,600 while the Conservative party [...]

As polling day approaches, the general election has already been marred by accusations of electoral fraud.