Hackney Marshes

Monday news. Of a mostly speculative nature.

Lib Dem councillors are angry about Labour-controlled Waltham Forest’s overly generous offer for the Olympic Delivery Authority to take control of Drapers Field during the Games and use it as a holding pen for athletes’ equipment, or possibly (according to one local report), a VIP …

Last October, Hackney council ran a public consultation to grill locals on whether they wanted to see a 120m-high wind turbine erected on Hackney Marshes. The results are in, and it seems NIMBYism has yet to rear its conservative hackles out east London way: 87% …

Hackney already experimented with wind power this past summer, and the council is now contemplating a bigger project: a public consultation is underway asking residents their opinion on a 120-metre high wind turbine for Hackney Marshes. The proposal comes via the Olympic Delivery Authority, who …

4. Animal Apparitions: Bears To continue from last week’s feature on spectral animals around the capital, did you know that bears, of differing colours, mainly black, brown and white have been sighted around Glebe Place, Chelsea? These ursine manifestations are perhaps connected to bear baiting …

If the London movie map created by FilmLondon and VisitLondon is to be believed, there are few places in this city that haven’t been filmed. So next time you have a ‘this could be in a film’ moment when you’re out, that’s probably because it …

Now that the embers of the domestic season are dying away fans who’ve lived every kick of the ball these last nine months are left with a whole… fortnight… of footballing emptiness to endure between now and the start of the World Cup on Friday …