London Informer

De Beauvoir Gardeners are kick-starting a community initiative, creating mini-pop up gardens to brighten the borough’s streets to coincide with the Chelsea Fringe.

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Plans for Hackney’s first foodbank which will provide emergency food parcels to families in crisis were announced this week.

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New app is ultimate guide to the capital

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Detectives investigating a robbery in Lower Clapton where the suspect knocked the victim unconscious in his own block of flats have released an e-fit of the suspect.

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A parody of the Olympics takes place this Friday when a fun ‘runner’ will set off through the streets holding a battery operated torch to mark the opening of the Austerity Games.

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Detectives have issued a description of the suspect in the shooting of a man in Stoke Newington on Thursday night (April 26).

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Police are investigating details of a shooting incident in Clapton which left a 12-year-old boy injured last night (Monday 30). He initially he thought he had been shot; later it emerged that the wound was not caused by a bullet.

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A woman tricked by Nigerian conmen into believing she had given birth in a fertility treatment scam has won a legal battle against Hackney Council in her attempt to adopt the baby.

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A woman tricked by Nigerian conmen into believing she had given birth in a fertility treatment scam has won a legal battle against Hackney Council in her attempt to adopt the baby.

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A Homerton pub is hosting a fundraiser for a youngster with the debilitating condition Tourette’s Syndrome next Saturday (April 28).

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A man is in “critical condition” in hospital today after a shooting in Stoke Newington last night (Thursday).

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A rowing hero who won silver during London’s last Olympics in 1948 came to Hackney to meet the sport’s current leading contender, who’s hoping to win gold at this year’s Games.

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The Archbishop of York released 300 balloons into the sky yesterday, as part of the official opening of Urswick School, after its

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The Homerton Hospital Fun Run, which was scheduled to take place tomorrow (Saturday), has been postponed with disappointed organisers being forced to admit weekend weather forecasts predicting torrential rains and strong winds would make the event a wash-out.

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An elderly man has been left injured and shaken after masked thugs smashed into his flat to burgle him – for the fourth time in eight months.

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