Local residents have criticised a new housing scheme in Salcombe Road, just off Kingsland Road in Dalston, that’s been approved by Hackney council. Campaigner David Spurring complains that the only concession the developers had given them was ‘bricks.’ He said the new building was “incredibly ugly and institutional looking” and…
Hackney housing services worker, Leslie Austin, has successfully sued the Metropolitan Police over a published poster that wrongly suggested he was involved in disorder during the 2011 riots, but the High Court heard he was commended and thanked by individual police officers on several occasions for helping vulnerable people caught…
A sawn-off shotgun, ammunition and a quantity of heroin has been found at an address in Hackney following a series of dawn raids conducted by Trident Gang Crime Command Officers on Wednesday, May 8. The raids occured as part of the Met’s continuing crackdown on gang crime across the capital,…
Detectives investigating the murder of James Sweeney in Clapton on Saturday May 4 have charged a man with his murder. Jeremy Lewis, 29, of Collinson Court, Generals Walk, Enfield was charged with the murder Wednesday evening May 8. He is expected to appear at Redbridge Magistrates Court on Thursday morning…
Beekeepers and honey bee experts in East London Line Boroughs are on the front line of a national crisis in the insect’s population and doing everything they can to halt its decline. Bees are vital to pollination for the country’s multi-billion pound agricultural industries. At the same time an urban…
A man who died from stab wounds in Clapton Saturday night, 4 May, has been formally identified as James Sweeney by murder inquiry detectives. Sweeney, 30, was a shop worker who lived at Lea View House on Jessam Avenue in Clapton and was originally from Montserrat. Police officers and London…
The Metropolitan Police have launched a murder inquiry in Clapton, Hackney after a man, 30, died having received stab wounds in Lea View House, Jessam Avenue E5 on Saturday night 4 May. The emergency call was at 9.10 pm, but when police officers and the London Ambulance Service attended the…
Stop Criminalising Hackney Youth, a campaigning group monitoring the policing of young people, is questioning the roll out of Metropolitan Police tasers in the Borough in the light of controversial incidents elsewhere of suspects being injured or dying during “taser arrests.” East London Lines reporter Saskia Black has been given…
A proposed plan for a new £18.9million development to be designed by David Chipperfield Architects for the Geffrye Museum in Hackney has been voted down by a Council planning committee. The museum, dedicated to the history of the home of the urban middle classes, made itself unpopular amongst a group of…
A part-time DJ from Hackney, Natalie Coleman, inspired in the kitchen by her late grandmother, has won this year’s BBC’s MasterChef final. On national television the Judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace said she was “destined for great things.” She “not only understands finery of great food but… cooks for…
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