Hackney Greens distance themselves from Burnham effigy protest
Cabinet members were named as attending a trans rights demonstration where an effigy of the incoming Prime Minister was stabbed — but the party insists they witnessed no violence
Read MoreHomerton community garden wins fifth Green Flag award
A community garden run by a Homerton mental-health charity has been awarded a Green Flag for the fifth year running, as the organisation behind the national scheme warns that access to safe, well-kept parks is increasingly a matter of postcode.
Read MoreSTIK print raises over £4,000 for the Homerton
The Hackney artist’s signed Holding Hands set sold at Bonhams, with the full proceeds going to the hospital where, as he put it, much of Hackney was born
Read MoreThe graveyard at Hackney Wick: sunken boats left to rot
Where the Hertford Union Canal meets the River Lee at Hackney Wick, two sunken narrow boats lie within touching distance of one another
Read MoreFormer Hackney councillor ‘debanked’ by HSBC after Ukraine trip
Andrew Boff, once a Queensbridge councillor and now chair of the London Assembly, says First Direct closed his account of 30 years over a £36 card payment in Kyiv
Read MoreCouncil says no eviction warrant sought as it defends handling of SEND family’s case
Hackney Council has said it has not applied for a warrant to remove a family with an autistic child from a home they have occupied for nearly 20 years, disputing several accounts of a case the borough’s Green Mayor backed before taking office.
Read MoreMayor Garbett urges minister to bin single-sex rules as campaigners round on her
Zoë Garbett tells the government to reject new EHRC guidance requiring single-sex spaces to follow biological sex, warning it puts trans people at risk — but the group Hackney Sex Realists says she is sacrificing women “on the altar of an ideology”
Read MoreFormer Hackney mayor joins call to restore whip to Diane Abbott
More than 30 party members write to Andy Burnham on the eve of his likely premiership, arguing that the year-long suspension may have cost Labour votes in May’s elections
Read MoreSadiq Khan misses affordable homes target — even after it was cut
Only a tenth of affordable homes completed since 2015 were social rent, as the London mayor misses his downgraded delivery target by thousands of homes
Read MoreMossbourne refuses to apologise to pupils as academy trust defends record before councillors
Academy trust leaders said they would not say sorry to children the safeguarding review found were harmed
Read MoreCouncil spent £10,000 on parking charges in a year
Hackney employees clocked up more than £10,000 in parking penalties and road charges over 12 months
Read MoreCouncil consults on Tyssen Street greening as campaigners cry foul over play area
Low Traffic Hackney backs new trees and benches at Hoxton Trust garden but disputes the council’s account of what happens to the car bays
Read MoreFamily’s five-year battle over collapsing council flat: ‘It’s dangerous’
Doudou Panda says repeated repairs at his Haggerston home have failed to stop leaks that have caved in a bathroom wall and left his children too frightened to use the toilet
Read MoreGreens accused of U-turn as they approve Woodberry Down ‘double decant’ to avoid £13.5m overrun
Up to 32 council households face being moved twice under a schedule signed off at Mayor Zoë Garbett’s first cabinet — despite the Greens’ past attacks on the estate’s demolition-led regeneration
Read MoreRevealed: Hackney went nearly seven years without a housing repairs contract as homes decayed
Council missed an entire structural repairs cycle after its main contractor deal lapsed in 2019 — a gap insiders say left tenants in damp and mould
Read MoreSir Patrick Vernon to lead Rio talk as film spotlights black and working-class health researchers
A new documentary charting the journeys of three professors and a PhD student into health research opens with a free screening at Dalston’s Rio Cinema
Read MoreLabour accuses Mayor Garbett of claiming credit for gym plans it drew up
Opposition says the conversion of ’empty’ Christopher Addison House into a stopgap gym predates the Green administration’s Who Owns Hackney project
Read MoreHackney bus drivers among 1,900 balloted for strike as London Assembly backs Bill of Rights
Clapton and Stamford Hill depots are among 10 facing strike ballots over ‘unbearable’ heat, as City Hall unites behind a dozen new protections for drivers
Read MoreHackney to open two children’s homes as council moves to end reliance on private care
Partnership with charity Action for Children aims to keep looked-after children in the borough
Read MoreHackney Council looks to divest pension fund from firms linked to human rights abuses
Council’s Green administration begins overhauling its investment strategy to exclude companies operating in territories condemned by international bodies
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