Hackney MP joins attack on Tower Hamlets over Victoria Park festival plan
Dame Meg Hillier and two neighbouring Labour MPs accuse the council of ignoring more than 1,500 objections to AEG’s bid to use the park for up to 75 days a year
Analysis
‘What date did Hamas attack Israel?’ – inside the council’s 7 October blunder
Internal messages reveal officers had moved the closing date forward from the end of October
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Food
Residents can claim unused council land to grow food under new pilot
Groups of five or more people can apply for verges, vacant plots and land around council buildings, with the first ten schemes to be approved this year
Stage
Szpilman’s Holocaust survival story finds its voice in song
Thom Southerland’s London premiere weaves compositions into a story of survival in Warsaw
art
Hackney estate film club lands first-ever retrospective of PJ Harvey collaborator Maria Mochnacz
Morland Estate Film Club’s curator says the free night shows residents that events like this are possible “on their doorstep”
Books
Hackney pupils add their tales to 1.5-metre travelling book
Around 300 children joined Ministry of Stories workshops on Kingsland Road for a national project
Music
Hackney estate film club lands first-ever retrospective of PJ Harvey collaborator Maria Mochnacz
Morland Estate Film Club’s curator says the free night shows residents that events like this are possible “on their doorstep”
