‘Frankenchicken’ protest against Pret A Manger dodges Shoreditch for Bishopsgate
Anima International’s £1 million campaign against Pret A Manger’s chicken welfare record was due to land outside the sandwich chain’s Shoreditch High Street branch on Tuesday
Read MoreGreen councillors demand reinstatement of Cllr Puech keffiyeh photo
Five councillors say Cllr Brenda Puech and Mayor Zoë Garbett were not consulted before officers took down the portrait following a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel
Read MoreGreens accused of ‘lying to parents’ as Hackney nursery fees set to rise
A 3.8 per cent increase for families earning up to £70,000 will come into effect from the start of the autumn term
Read MoreTenant spent a year in flat rated ‘10 out of 10’ for rats – Peabody accused of failing her
A mental health nurse in key worker accommodation says the housing association passed her case between pest controllers, plumbers, builders and its own maintenance teams across more than 50 appointments — while rat urine ran through the seams of her wet-room floor
Read MoreRefugee Week 2026: Mayor Garbett rebukes Labour’s ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ on migration
Hackney’s new Green mayor sets out her stall against the national government’s tightening immigration regime and pledges to build on the borough’s three-year Sanctuary designation
Read MoreFellows Courts residents urge Mayor Garbett to act over ‘atrocious’ conditions in ‘dehumanising’ estate block
Frustrated social housing residents call on the new Mayor to address longstanding leaks, filth, and disrepairs
Read MoreFormer Hackney councillor Patrick Vernon knighted for services to racial equality
The Windrush Day campaigner, who served as a Labour councillor in the borough and now chairs Hackney Thinking Spaces, has been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours after three decades of work on race, health and social justice
Read MoreGreen councillor’s portrait pulled from Hackney website after keffiyeh complaint
Mayor Zoë Garbett says the decision was taken by officers, not by elected members, and that she has “raised concerns” over its removal
Read MoreArtists open their doors for return of E8 Art and Craft Trail
The free weekend trail, now in its fifth year, sees Dalston artists and makers show work in homes, studios and venues across the neighbourhood on 20–21 June
Read MoreStoke Newington community rallies to save Old Church with all-day midsummer festival
Residents have raised three-quarters of a £30,000 repair fund and hope a 12-hour programme of music, poetry and comedy on 14 June will close the gap
Read MoreLeader – ‘Lives, not spreadsheets’: Hackney’s new mayor is right to doubt the dashboard — but on climate, targets are how we survive
Standing in the council chamber at the first full meeting since the Greens’ landslide, Hackney’s new mayor set out a governing creed in plain terms
Read MoreLabour critics accuse Hackney’s Green mayor of ‘vibe’ politics and blast Garbett’s ‘waffle’ on targets
Councillor Ben Lucas leads chorus of Labour critics warning Zoë Garbett that ‘targets exist for a reason’, after the mayor pledged to measure success by ‘what people feel and experience’
Read More‘Uncertain’ future for 180 Stamford Hill pupils as Charedi primary school faces closure
So far, no alternative premises have been secured for the pupils
Read MoreHackney Central by-election candidates announced
Hackney Central residents are set to cast their vote once again following the recent local elections
Read MoreDalston by-election candidates announced
A little more than seven weeks after the local elections, residents of this ward will be heading to the polls to cast their votes once again
Read MoreHackney man jailed for five years after antisemitic tirades near synagogue
Tavius Jean-Charles, 36, shouted death threats at members of the Jewish community and suggested a Jewish school should be blown up
Read More‘The loudest bass I’ve ever heard’: resident says her home was left shaking by car park party near Goldsmiths Row venue
‘You’re just going to have to get used to it. These do happen this time of year’, she was told
Read MoreBrewed awakening bestows barista’s confidence
A social enterprise founded in Shoreditch is giving young people a shot at coffee-making
Read MoreResident trapped in council block lift for 40 minutes — just hours after engineers said they had fixed it
‘If I had been stuck in there without a phone, I don’t know how I would’ve got out’
Read More‘I’m running out of hope’: NHS worker driven to brink after 20 months of hell from anti-social neighbour
Tenant left sleep-deprived and on verge of breakdown by ‘nocturnal’ neighbour
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