Max Eckersley

Hackney Society’s Lisa Shell on the band of volunteers fighting for the borough’s heritage, keeping the council in check, and adapting after the sudden loss of a friend and colleague

Artist Rose Gibbs tells the Citizen all about plans for a self-built community hall on Mountford Estate – and the snack-shaped diagram underpinning them

Kevin Gill, who counts Barack Obama as a fan, sent a print of his painting ‘The Brexit Note’, featuring politicians past and present, to Number 10

Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen

A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together

The Hackney South MP hints that she could break with official party policy next week to back a fresh public vote

Jerome Davenport, also known as Ketones6000, previously painted a tribute to suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst in nearby Bow

Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year

The talented 26-year-old sat down with the Citizen to discuss her film about a brain injury survivor after its recent Rio premiere

Museum of London also reveals plans for a new exhibition space in Shoreditch centred around The Theatre’s in-situ remains

Loker, along with David Hockney, was part of the so-called ‘Bradford Mafia’ – a group of artists who first rose to prominence in the 1960s

Party says it is ‘very sorry’ to hear the views of Rabbi Avrohom Pinter, who recently wrote to Jeremy Corbyn over ‘unchallenged’ instances of antisemitism he has suffered

Giacomo ‘RUN’ Bufarini says people are often surprised his work is self-funded as street art becomes a ‘lucrative tourist attraction’

Growers across the borough are uniting in an effort to protect open spaces from development

Town Hall officially agrees to push the government for a public inquiry into the scandal and oppose criminalisation of the Windrush generation

Hackney Council says ‘no concerns’ have been raised about the schools after Cambian Group rejects reports of poor conditions in its care homes

Cordwainers Grow, Dalston Curve and Daubeney Fields Forever want to protect ‘much needed’ green spaces from development

Photographer Andy Donohoe’s free Dalston show features portraits of street cleaners, librarians and park keepers

120 locals put on a colourful show for the annual LGBTQI+ parade

Activists, including local group Divest Hackney, take aim at Shell’s ‘sickeningly cynical’ Make the Future event