Posts Tagged ‘London’
The Olympic Park – review
The Velodrome, the Copper Box, the Energy Centre: some fine buildings will grace London 2012. But tawdry compromise is never far away…
Read MoreHow a community’s outcry led to campaign for justice for Sam Hallam
Veteran justice campaigner Paul May was asked to help out by friends of Hallam following conviction in 2005
Read MoreProtester receives Olympics asbo
London man who opposed construction of basketball venue believed to be first to receive wide-ranging ban from Olympics
Read MoreBody found in canal is EastEnders actor Gemma McCluskie
Police confirm that torso discovered in Regent’s canal in east London is that of actor who went missing last week
Read MoreAn alternative Olympic tour takes in Hackney’s art, history and fashions
As the Olympics loom, Alexandra Topping takes a tour within sight and sound of the London 2012 site
Interactive: an alternative tour around the site
Read MoreOlympics organisers urged to ban tents for fear of Occupy-style protests
Theresa May vows to prevent ‘encampments’ – but London 2012 security chiefs argue against prohibiting tents
Read MoreRioter gets five years in longest sentence yet relating to August disorder
Junior Saunders pleaded guilty to violent disorder, criminal damage to a police car and burglary in Hackney on 8 August
Read MoreOccupy London protesters take over empty UBS bank offices
Activists host press conference in building owned by Swiss bank as St Paul’s Cathedral camp faces high court action
Read MoreAnger grows over Olympic proposal for Fish Island
Residents complain that second corporate Olympic venue on small industrial area in Stratford, which will include the UK’s largest TV screen, is a disaster waiting to happen
Read MoreTop Boy is the real deal
I thought this TV series set in Hackney – where I grew up – might be another cliched urban drama. It rose far above that
Read MoreTop Boy gets a mixed reception from Hackney’s youth
A panel of locals enjoys a preview of the Channel 4 drama’s first episode, but finds plenty of flaws in Ronan Bennett’s supposedly realistic portrayal of life in the borough
Read MoreKen Livingstone on riots, debt and the end of the world
Labour’s London mayoral candidate has offered a group of sixth form students his recipe for reviving the capital
Read MoreFrustration fallout after EastEnders declines Olympic Park move
The BBC’s decision not to move the production base of its flagship soap to the Games broadcast centre makes the job of filling that space in the long term more difficult
Read MoreThe Hackney Heroine tells why she confronted rioters
Pauline Pearce – the woman with a walking stick – became a YouTube sensation after tackling looters in the street. Now she fears there’s more trouble ahead
Read MoreHackney riots: ‘The message when youth clubs close is that no one cares’
Half the borough’s children live in poverty. Missing, too, are the summer courses that kept minds and hands busy
Read MoreBoris Johnson says London riots “are not a simple issue.”
London’s Tory Mayor has said that the riots’ “background field of causation” is “very, very, various.”
Read MoreThe militarisation of policing the riots would be a deadly mistake
Yes, we must regain control of the streets, but loose talk about rubber bullets and water cannon will achieve nothing
Read MoreLondon riots: ‘A generation who don’t respect their parents or police’
At street level in trouble-hit Hackney, residents paint a depressing picture of alienation, anger, boredom and mischief
Read MoreHackney rioters directly target police
Masked men and women barricade Pembury estate in largest confrontation of London riots yet
Read MoreHackney rioters and police in hand-to-hand combat
Youths ransack area and use burning vehicles, bricks and bottles as violence moves from Mare Street and London Fields to estate
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