The Latest Breaking News from Hackney

Child seriously injured in drive-by shooting as she ate with her family at north-east London restaurant

Witnesses said gunman, riding on a stolen motorbike, sprayed bullets towards diners who dived for cover

Those involved had left the scene by the time police had arrived

Reverend Clifford Samuels, from Hackney, is thought to have caught the disease during an operation to remove a stomach ulcer at the Prince of Wales hospital in Tottenham in the 1970s

Harry Webb, a 27-year-old music student, died in hospital two days after sustaining ‘terrible’ injuries

Man, 27, to stand trial accused of the murder of Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

Cutting across Bond Street the other day was nothing short of depressing. At the crossroads with Brook Street where Fenwicks sat, three out of the four corner stores are empty. Opposite the old department store is the boarded-up chasm of where Victoria’s Secret once had queues out the door. 

The author on his new book about photographer John Deakin, being at ease in his 80s – and walking amid London’s fast-moving phone zombies

The dead gunman was a ‘core member’ of the 67 gang from Brixton Hill