This weekend EastLondonLines is at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival . If you want to follow the festival on Twitter, use the hashtag #SNLF2012, and keep checking back on this post for the latest reviews, updates and gossip as it comes!…
Balancing the books can be a tall order in today’s straightened times. Now a Dalston-based company that prides itself on ethical values is looking to roll out savings accounts as part of a service to help financially excluded people manage their finances.…
If you are in the borough of Lewisham this weekend and fancy a short and easy cycle with then why not go along this stretch of the River Ravensbourne from Deptford to Ladywell Fields.…
This easy-going route starts in the fashionable London Fields and ends in East London’s largest green space, Victoria Park, taking in the winding Regent’s Canal – and the bustling Broadway Market on Saturdays.…
Joey Barton is at it again. This time the QPR midfielder is offering himself as a martyr at the altar of free speech, following news that the Attorney General is investigating comments he made on Twitter about Chelsea defender John Terry, ahead of Terry’s trial for allegedly racially abusing an…
A wave of low-level metal theft is blighting Bethnal Green – and affecting individuals and businesses, as Michael Pooler discovered. It was a classic case of ‘I told you so’: coming home from a pre-Christmas drink my flat-mate warned me not to leave my bicycle outside our building – even…
Trade unionists campaigning for a London living wage for cleaners at Canary Wharf have complained of a “disrepect of civil liberties” after being ejected from the Wharf as they distributed leaflets on Thursday. The group of around a dozen, including members of the Industrial Workers of the World union and…
Hackney and Tower Hamlets Councils are among those honoured this year with awards for “crimes against the council taxpayer” by satirical magazine Private Eye.…
A Lewisham man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after admitting a £69,000 spree of criminal damage that involved spraying graffiti on trains, railway bridges and ‘tagging’ Nelson’s column during last year’s student protests.…
Salman Mohiuddin: Palace Wembley play-off final tickets Sold Out!
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‘You would think comedy based on mocking disabled people had been consigned to the past’
Despite its promise as a new and refreshingly quirky comedy-drama, Derek, aired as a one-off last night on Channel 4, is a reversion to type in the worst way possible for Ricky Gervais. Populated by thinly-veiled stereotypes that stumble through an unconvincing narrative, it was a resoundingly unfunny production by a…
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