How the welfare reforms affect you: Hackney
On average claimant households are set to be the 6th biggest losers as a result of the welfare reforms when …
MA13Oppenheim Archive
Welfare Reform Week: ELL begins week investigating the impacts of the reforms in our boroughs one year on
One-Year Anniversary of Welfare Reform Bill A year ago today, the Welfare Reform Bill passed its final hurdle in the …
April 1, 2014/
Employment, General Features, Housing, Lead Stories, Society, Uncategorized/
Clapton: Frontline of class cleansing in the East End
Formerly known as ”murder mile”, Clapton was infamous for its gun and drug-related crime rather than its crêperies and coffee …
February 1, 2014/
Commentary/
Damien Hirst discusses early days of career at Goldsmiths
Internationally renowned artist and former Goldsmiths student, Damien Hirst, has returned to Goldsmiths to discuss the early stages of his …
January 15, 2014/
Arts Features/
Labour initiates parliamentary debate over their plans to curb bookmakers and fixed-odds betting terminals
Labour leader David Miliband has initiated a debate in parliament on Labour’s proposal to restrict the growth of bookmakers and …
January 8, 2014/
Business, Lead Stories, Society/
Goldsmiths: 300 scholarships to low income students
Goldsmiths are offering £1.4 million of financial support for new undergraduate students starting in 2014. This will include nearly 300 …
January 4, 2014/
Education, Lead Stories, Lewisham/
Majority of rape offences do not result in arrest
Two thirds of rape offences in Hackney are not followed by prosecution, a recent freedom of information request has revealed. …
Borough exposed as one of the worst paid in London
Lewisham has been exposed as one of the worst boroughs in London for low pay. Lewisham and Bexley are two …
December 12, 2013/
Employment, Lewisham/
Ida Pollock: a romance is never just a romance
Lewisham-born, Ida Pollock, the world’s oldest romantic novelist died at the age of 105 last Tuesday. Writing under a dozen …
December 10, 2013/
Arts/
New proposal for Stamford Hill planning forum
Hackney council has received a new proposal for a Central Stamford Hill Neighbourhood Forum, despite past concerns about tension within …
“A staggering mess”: Met Police gaffe leaves wrong crime figures for the whole of London online for six months
Incorrect crime statistics for all of London, including the four EastLondonLines boroughs, were displayed on the Metropolitan Police website for …
December 6, 2013/
Lead Stories/
Croydon Council U-turn: decision to ban Queen’s Gardens soup kitchen reversed following leaked report
A controversial decision to ban a homeless soup kitchen in Croydon has been reversed by the borough council. Last week, …
December 4, 2013/
Lead Stories/
Payday loan ads banned by Tower Hamlets Council
Payday loan companies are officially banned from advertising on all council-owned property in Tower Hamlets, or setting up business in …
November 30, 2013/
Business, Society, Tower Hamlets/
Independent Theatre Council reaches out in Deptford
Key figures from the arts came together on Monday to discuss the future direction of the arts during the annual …
Superhead resigns amidst school contracts controversy
One of the nation’s best-known ‘super-heads,’ who oversaw five Hackney primary schools, has resigned midway through an investigation into his …
November 23, 2013/
Business, Education, Hackney, Lead Stories, Politics/
Hetty Bower: Britain’s oldest anti-war campaigner
Britain’s oldest anti-war campaigner, Hackney-born, Hetty Bower, died last Thursday at the age of 108. Known as an untiring activist …
November 21, 2013/
People/
Mustafa Korel: Fighting for Hackney First
After a four-year wait on a council housing waiting list, Mustafa Korel moved to Dalston in the early 1980s when …
Hackney Youth Conference debates on-line lives
Young people in Hackney have been invited to make their views known on topical issues at the borough’s annual youth …
October 18, 2013/
Hackney, Local News/
Appeal launched to save artists’ space in Hackney Wick
In the industrial shadow of the former Olympic Park in Hackney Wick is ‘Performance Space’ – a spot claimed …