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Tension on the streets of Hackney as youths and police gather on Mare Street.

Tottenham High Road in flames following the shooting of Mark Duggan.

Bishopsgate Institute brightens up the damp squib of our summer with promise of a smoky autumn programme of edification through vice, violence, sauce and corruption. Bent coppers, fiddling MPs and reckless bankers all get a going over whilst the 1950s are probed for sexiness pre-swinging …

Image by Simon-K from the Londonist Flickr pool We knew this election was stirring up a lot of unexpected passion, but we didn’t expect to see violence on the streets. Cormac Hollingsworth, a Labour candidate for Southwark council, was canvassing South Bermondsey on Monday night …

The police have released images of 17 men wanted for questioning in connection with the troubles at the West Ham versus Millwall Carling Cup game on 25 August. The fixture was marred by pitch invasions, fighting inside and outside the ground, missile throwing and a …

An incensed Canadian boxer and martial arts instructor flew into a rage and gave a solid pasting to a pair of soldiers after becoming angered at their faux-mosexual antics, a court has heard. Ashley Wolfe, whom the Standard twice mentions as being 5’3″, as if …

The BBC are reporting chaotic scenes at Upton Park, where scuffles involving brick- and bottle-throwing have broken out between West Ham and Millwall fans. One eye-witness describes the scene as the ‘worst hooliganism he had seen in 30 years’. More news from the Carling Cup …

Image / 33mhz The “burger wrap brawl”, as it should be known to criminologists and social-despairers of the future, reached the ears of the judicial process this week. Croydon Crown Court today heard testimony from the police officers attacked by a mob last year after …

Small but perfectly formed bookshop Housmans has devised the perfect antidote to the Story of London Festival. The Caledonian Road independent plans a series of talks, screenings and walks to celebrate London’s history of rebellion, counter-culture and free-thinking. Get your diaries at the ready because …

Occasionally an event happens so spirit-sappingly depressing to make us wonder if those millenarian, “hell in a handcart”, death knell-sounding types in the Mail‘s employ might actually have a point after all. Here’s one: two cops are on sick leave following an attack by a …