The Latest Breaking News from Hackney

The suspect made a number of threatening comments including some which were allegedly antisemitic when he was arrested

Hackney MP tells large crowd ‘this is not about me, this is about the level of racism in Britain’

The carnival was previously cancelled following the death of the Queen and was held online during the Covid pandemic

Victim suffered gunshot wounds to the legs and collapsed in the street

Oliver Campbell’s conviction for murder in 1991 was ‘unsafe’, a hearing in London was told on Wednesday

The victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries including a fractured cheekbone and nose and lacerations to his eye

A crime scene is in place 400 yards from Finsbury Park Underground and railway station

A teenager has been charged with murder as police named the 17-year-old victim of a fatal stabbing in east London.

Police were scrambled to Hackney Road, close to Hoxton station, just before 11pm on Saturday

A murder investigation has been launched after a 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in Hackney, east London.

In Hackney, the London borough where I live, “hipster” is an essential bit of anthropological vocabulary. For they are everywhere, and come in various subclassifications. But where does this term-of-art, associated closely with East London and the trendier bits of many cities, actually come from? The poppy fields of India,…