Students at Hackney Community College have been shortlisted for their anti-smoking film What Will You Do About It? for the National Cut Film Festival awards. The Cut Film project aims to dissuade young people from smoking. It was started by the Deborah Hutton Campaign group, a peer to peer smoking prevention charity,…
In Shoreditch a monthly meeting called the Roundabout Kids has started to bring young entrepreneurs working in the the tech scene at the Silicon Roundabout together. Alex Nguyen and friend Vishal Ladwa thought it would be a good idea to have meetings for young professionals who want to start up…
A 22-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of James Sweeney. The crime took place at Sweeney’s home on Jessam Avenue in Clapton on May 4. Sweeney, 30, died of stab wounds to the chest and abdomen. He was a shop worker and was originally from Montserrat.…
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,…
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