She marched at the first Aldermaston in 1958 and was still going 50 years later, complaining only that the crowd walked too slowly. An extract from Great Women of London on Hetty Bower — born in Hackney in 1905, protesting to the very end.
The O'Donnell + Tuomey-designed dance house on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is one of 32 buildings honoured this year — and, the judges say, an icon made for the people who live around it
The seminal American provocateur brings a career-spanning screening to the Rio and a three-night noise residency to Cafe OTO — his video work and his experimental sound practice, side by side, for one week only
The Hackney artist has donated a rare complete set of his five-colour lithographs to raise money for the hospital where, as he puts it, half the borough was born
