Indie / post-punk / electro funk band based in Hackney Wick to release debut EP in New Year
Aardman’s festive movie is showing at the Rio Cinema in Dalston until Monday 2 January 2012 (daytime screenings)
Hackney Winter Night Shelter is seeking financial donations and volunteers to look after its New Year guests
Sofa Surfer is a short film telling the story of a young woman from Hackney who has nowhere to go
Citizens’ Advice is for life, not just for Christmas – volunteers are needed all year round
Proposed changes to tenancy agreements for Hackney residents living in council-owned properties are causing concern
Alarmed shopkeepers demand tighter security following dual blazes within a week of each other
Julia Griffin and Hendrik Wittkopf’s new children’s book, The Animalympics, is a lively and refreshing take on the 2012 Games
A look back at Hackney in 2011, another year of the unexpected and unpredictable
An outbreak of violence on the last day of term leaves a 15 year-old in hospital
The global Occupy movement arrives in central Hackney as protestors demand social justice and greater wealth equality
