Steve Backshall opens new children’s play area in Woodberry Wetlands
The TV star and naturalist hosted an outdoor learning session with children from Holmleigh Primary School to mark the event
Read MoreFresh proposals for traffic measures in Hoxton face local backlash
The strongest opposition comes from car users who live within the scheme area, caregivers, disabled people and renters
Read MoreHackney Marshes’ ‘Talking Trees’ mystery solved
Visitors to the Hackney Marshes have been delighted in recent weeks by an informal art trail which has sprung up their, but the creator behind the project had, until now, remained anonymous
Read MoreCouncil closes in on ‘ambitious’ 2026 social housing goal
Plans for more than 100 new social rent homes have been rubber-stamped in a bid to meet housing targets
Read MorePolice ‘fail to protect’ women and girls from ‘unacceptable’ hate crime levels on TfL
There were 4,593 VAWG (violence against women and girls) offences on the Tfl network in 2025, with just 3 per cent resulting in a charge or summons
Read MoreLondon’s heat network customers need ‘urgent price protection’, ministers warned
Gas and electricity costs may prove unpredictable as the US-Iran war continues
Read MoreHackney has lowest Meningitis B vaccine rate in London as parents share outbreak concerns
The meningitis outbreak which started in Kent spread to London last week
Read MoreHackney charity celebrates 25 years of removing barriers to the arts for young people
Hackney Shed puts on performing arts workshops for under-26-year-olds
Read MoreRidley Road indoor market traders fear permanent ‘eviction’ – but landlord says they could return ‘as early as June’
Those businesses deemed not to have been ‘involved in antisocial behaviour’ and with no substantial rent arrears will be invited back
Read MoreRenters’ Rights reforms could be undermined by lack of awareness
Only 35 per cent of renters in London have heard of the Renters’ Rights Act (RRA), new research shows
Read More‘Not what was needed’: Mossbourne Federation sparks backlash after setting out response to safeguarding review
The parent who collected testimonies for the review and a local politician have hit out at ‘disappointing’ announcement
Read MoreHackney school receives prestigious award for student outcomes
The Bridge Academy was awarded a SSAT Award in recognition of its student attainment
Read MoreRio Cinema founder Clara Ludski to be honoured memorial plaque
The Hackney Society is currently fundraising for the plaque and hopes to unveil it next month
Read MoreCharity tackling furniture poverty among London’s children launches campaign with Shoreditch installation
More than 700,000 children in London live in poverty, according to The Childhood Trust
Read MoreMichael Morgan demystifies ‘hidden disease’ in new book ‘The Secret Life of Crohn’s’
Crohn’s disease is a life-changing chronic condition which affects around one in 123 people nationwide
Read MoreMega-pension fund faces calls to divest from firms ‘enabling Israeli violations’
Shake the CIV said the pension fund currently invests £7billion into companies “complicit in Israel’s crimes”
Read MoreHackney nursery to close in days with parents scrambling to find new places for children
The nursery will shut down at the end of March due to a ‘continued decline in demand’
Read MoreHackney Council ignored tenant’s concerns over safety of her autistic child in social housing
The council has paid the family £500 to recognise the “distress, uncertainty and frustration” it had caused
Read MoreDisrepair and depression in De Beauvoir – residents decry ‘whole heap’ of housing problems
The lower two floors of one building on the estate have been empty for almost six years
Read MoreCouncil suggests taking autistic boy on bus ride to ‘prove’ he can’t use public transport
The council suggested taking the child on a bus ride so they can test his family’s claim that travelling by public transport would prove distressing for him
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