The Latest Breaking News from Hackney

London student made homeless at Christmas by devastating electrical fire gets top A-Level grades

Excelsior Academy student Samira Hersi, from Hackney, lost all her course notes in an electrical fire at her flat

Evening Standard · Aug 15, 2024

Teenage thugs danced and rapped about brutal gun and knife attack at Hackney station

The 20-year-old was left fighting for his life for the attack, while four teenagers have been jailed for attempted murder

Evening Standard · Aug 13, 2024

Was the shooting of a nine-year-old girl in Hackney linked to a Europe-wide battle between rival drug gangs?

Fatal clashes between Turkish criminals in the heroin trade are spreading in Europe, an Observer investigation reveals

The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2024

Who will win this week's Stirling Prize 2024: Hackney social housing in the running for top architecture award

Four of the six shortlisted architecture prizes are in London, including the Elizabeth Line

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2024

OPINION - Years of austerity have cut arts education to the bone – it's time to restore the music

With an incoming government that is yet to announce how it will address and dramatically improve the current funding landscape for the arts in the UK, as Co-founder and CEO of Restore the Music, I offer up a blueprint for a successful funding model for music education in state schools…

Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2024

Met Police issue CCTV footage after 'terrifying' sex attack in Hackney

Attacker only stopped when a delivery rider spotted him

Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2024

Urgent search for woman, 23, last seen near River Lea in Hackney

Leyla Pekcan vanished on Sunday

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2024

Hackney murder: Boy, 15, charged after Pharrell Garcia stabbed to death picking up sister from school

Pharrell Garcia was attacked close to Benthal Primary School on Stellman Close

Evening Standard · Jul 25, 2024

OPINION - The Standard View: The action needed now to end the bloodshed in London

As the weather turns warm, a grimly predictable violence is rearing its head. In the last few days, two young men have had their lives cruelly stolen. Rene Graham, just 15 years of age, was shot dead on Sunday in a west London park packed with families. And yesterday, another…

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2024

Hackney murder: First picture of boy, 15, stabbed to death after picking up sister from primary school

Paramedics battled for hours to save the victim who staggered from near Benthal Primary School for about 50 metres before collapsing on Stellman Close

Evening Standard · Jul 23, 2024