The Met Police would like to identify two men after an assault near a pub in Mare Street has left the victim in a “critical” condition in hospital. The incident took place near the Dolphin public house in Mare Street, E8, last Sunday, May 12 at around 5 am. The…
A new project in Hackney called “Take Care of the Pennies” has been set up to tackle the crisis of one in five elderly residents in the borough living below the poverty line. “Take Care of the Pennies” and local community organisations are pledged to help end the plight of…
Stoke Newington Famers’ Market is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary this summer with a number of events. The market is the only one to be all organic in the country. It began on a very small scale ten years ago with only two stalls, however, it has proved to…
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…
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