A Hackney church has been dubbed the “greenest” in the country after it was transformed by a community energy project. Last year, in an ambitious final project of outgoing Reverend Niall Weir, St Paul ...

This is an urgent question for those running the country, but it also makes for a great plotline in the new thriller The Boy on the Train by Martin Goodman. The Hackney-based author has wormed his way ...

Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay, the book riffs off McNeil’s adventures in far-flung places: Greenland, the Namib desert, Antarctica, African savannas, Costa Rican cloudforests, the ...

If you ever thought a plant-based diet was not for you, We Cook Plants is a challenge you are sure to relish, quite possibly to your surprise. We Cook Plants by Sarah Bentley is published by Nourish.

A Hackney teenager has received a British Citizen Youth Award (BCyA) medal for his writing and community involvement. At 17, Romeo Bremmer has yet to complete his A-levels but has already penned nine ...

Art may transcend borders, but those who make it are imbricated in places, cultures and political institutions. In the exhibition I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies, Autograph Galley has brought ...

A Hackney couple who won a High Court challenge against the council over incorrect service charges could be facing higher costs as a result. Husband and wife John and Adenike Williams came before a ...

Inside a rudimentary pale-wood space, you can pick up bottles from Noble Rot (among hundreds of others) and beers with such hilarious names as Tim the Human Jellyfish, and even a zero-percenter: ...

His work draws from personal experience, but what drives him most is the act of sharing. That impulse took form in ‘verse’, a weekly writing group in Newington Green that he founded to build community ...

As the fragments of her past merge with the textures of East London, Tribambuka’s work reminds us how memory, like collage, is never static. It tears, reassembles, and reshapes itself into something ...

A Hackney charity which provides free legal advice to residents has less than six months to solve a funding crisis which could force it to close after 32 years. The Hoxton Trust has offered help to ...

A new mural has been unveiled outside Clapton Park children’s centre, transforming a ‘neglected’ part of Lower Clapton from an ‘eyesore’ into a ‘celebration of Hackney’s nature and community spirit’.