Alcohol duties have risen per 6% above inflation but will this impact on the problem of teenage binge drinking?

No elasticity for the humble carrier bag in the the Chancellor's first budget.

Primary school children get more and more homework. Is it helpful; is it stressful; should it be banned?

In the UK 6,500 people are waiting for kidney donors. World Kidney Day is long overdue.

Celebrity artists like Tracy Emin want to save Shoreditch from tower block development.

Local people find out about the benefits the Olympic Games could bring to Hackney.

The Narrow Hackney street so congested that pedestrians barely have room to cross. It wasn't always like this.

Do people respond differently to groups of girls on the streets?

Rose Hudson Wilkins parish is All Saints in Haggerston. It now extends to the Queen.

A training restaurant supported by a charity and celebrities does great work in Hackney.