As Hackney Empire marks 125 years, Chris Sudworth talks community, affordability and a 16-month birthday party — with a little help from Lenny Henry, Chaka Khan and Hackney Women's FC.
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
