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Hackney-born Idris Elba knighted in New Year Honours

Elba has been recognised for his ‘exceptional’ work both in the entertainment industry and for young people

Author: Lizzie McAllister

Idris Elba

Police launch murder probe after man stabbed to death in Stoke Newington

Victim, thought to be in his fifties, was found with a knife wound on Northwold Road last night

Author: Hackney Citizen

Police launch murder probe after man stabbed to death in Stoke Newington

Teenager arrested on suspicion of murder following fatal stabbing on Hackney Road

Seventeen-year-old in custody after boy of the same age died on Saturday night

Author: Hackney Citizen

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‘Above and beyond the call of duty’: Phone-snatching youth found guilty after off-duty police officer intervenes

A teenager has been convicted after an off-duty officer spotted him armed with a knife about to snatch mobile phones

Author: Hackney Citizen

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‘Your life mattered’: Tributes paid to Hackney teenager stabbed to death in Highbury Fields

Police are urging anyone with information about the attack on 4 August to come forward

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

‘Your life mattered’: Tributes paid to Hackney teenager stabbed to death in Highbury Fields

‘I want to see a violence-free community’: Mother of teenager killed in Hackney receives MBE for anti-knife crime campaign

Yvonne Lawson MBE dedicates honour to her son Godwin and to those who ‘held my hand’ and ‘showed me love’

Author: Tom Davidson

‘I want to see a violence-free community’: Mother of teenager killed in Hackney receives MBE for anti-knife crime campaign

Mother of teenager murdered in Hackney joins anti-knife crime campaign

Yvonne Lawson MBE relives the first call she made following her son’s death to encourage people to use Crimestoppers

Author: Hackney Citizen

Mother of teenager murdered in Hackney joins anti-knife crime campaign

Stop and searches in Hackney more than double in three years

Community leaders say indiscriminate use of practice risks alienating people

Author: Elizabeth Rushton

Stop and searches in Hackney more than double in three years

Town Hall ponders crime hotline for reporting suspicious activity

Council to explore ‘route for parents and members of the community to raise concerns’

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Town Hall

Reformed gang members urge schools to stop excluding pupils at risk of exploitation

Calls made for more outreach workers able to speak to young people ‘from a Hackney perspective’

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

Reformed gang members urge schools to stop excluding pupils at risk of exploitation

Hackney Wick charity boss to scale Antarctica’s highest peak in £75k fundraising attempt

Henry Smith, founder of gang prevention charity The Wickers, will battle minus 40 degree temperatures and high speed winds during next month’s climb

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Wick charity boss to scale Antarctica’s highest peak in £75k fundraising attempt

‘No obvious link’ between Hackney’s drug markets and an increase in violence, report finds

Findings contradict National Crime Agency claims that drugs fuel London’s violent crime

Author: Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter

‘No obvious link’ between Hackney’s drug markets and an increase in violence, report finds