Today is World Cultural Diversity Day. This global event has been going for over a decade, and since 2011 it has been the basis for a 24-hour United Nations campaign called: “Do one thing for Cultural Diversity and Inclusion”. People everywhere are being asked to make one positive gesture towards integration and cultural…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
This week there is lots of drama, with new writing festivals in Hackney and Lewisham, and a colourful highlight is the Mela in Victoria Park on Sunday. …
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…
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