Posts by Hackney Citizen
Homerton for Homerton: Cambridge University college to support Hackney ward where it was founded 257 years ago
Homerton College launches scheme to inspire young people from the borough to aim for the best universities
Read MoreOpposition councillors slam ‘lack of transparency’ over ‘harrowing’ Mossbourne safeguarding review
They claim there has been no reassurance that changes are being made in the three months since the review was published
Read MoreMossbourne’s chair of trustees quits in first major shake-up at beleaguered academy chain
Henry Colthurst, who had been on the trust’s board since 2014, resigned earlier this month
Read More‘Highly questionable’: Mossbourne Federation spent £400,000 of public money on legal fees amid safeguarding probe
The multi-academy trust forked out the sum for its own barrister-led review and on hiring solicitors to handle questions about treatment of pupils at Mossbourne Victoria Park academy
Read MoreExclusive: The Mossbourne money-spinner – how a company founded by the multi-academy trust’s chief snapped up his own schools’ lucrative PAM software
To fund the purchase, Progress Teaching gave Mossbourne Foundation £300,000 worth of its shares and a promised payment of £268,000 by way of an unsecured loan
Read MoreObituary: Peter Howden, luminary of independent cinema, dies aged 80
Howden was a fixture of the London film scene, spending the latter half of his six-decade career at the Rio in Dalston
Read More‘I would have already resigned’ – Mossbourne senior leadership and chair of governors should ‘reflect’ on positions says safeguarding commissioner
Children’s Safeguarding Commissioner for City and Hackney, Jim Gamble, said he would have ‘already stepped down’ were he in a leadership role at Mossbourne
Read MoreHackney’s safeguarding boss takes DfE advisor to task over ‘embarrassing’ criticism of Mossbourne review
Jim Gamble responds to Tom Bennett’s blogpost that called the report a ‘hit job’
Read MoreCouncil accused of ‘salami slicing’ library budgets
‘It is about time this Labour council called on the central government to provide more funding’
Read MoreThe writing’s on the wall – behold the ‘floating’ sculptures of Zineb Sedira
There are ‘Dreams’ on the River Lea, shadows on the brickwork
Read MoreWoman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses
Officers confirm that the pair were ‘known to each other’ and they believe it was an ‘isolated incident’
Read MoreFormer councillor defends Morning Lane role following ‘insider’ claims
Vincent Stops responds to a report by campaigners that called his involvement an ‘egregious lack of transparency’
Read MoreMan who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life
Javon Riley given minimum term of 34 years for ‘meticulously organising’ attack at Evin restaurant last year
Read MoreTitbits – Lording it up
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreMan who killed partner in car then confessed to brother is detained under Mental Health Act
Gogoa Lois Tape was sentenced to a hospital order for the manslaughter of Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche
Read More‘One of life’s true optimists’: Film about popular local rabbi to be screened at Abney Park
How to Get On with Everybody, a portrait of Rabbi Herschel Gluck, will be shown on 9 September – followed by a Q&A with the man himself
Read MoreMan guilty over Dalston shooting that left nine-year-old girl with bullet lodged in brain
Javon Riley, 33, had denied three charges of attempted murder, relating to three men, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl
Read MoreSame Streets, Different Lives – stories of Whitechapel and Shadwell
Fans of the Hackney and Newham History Social Club podcast will be delighted to hear that a clutch of new episodes has been released
Read More‘Protesting genocide is not terrorism’ – Greenpeace activists put up posters at bus stops
A protest against the proscription, organised by Defend Our Juries, is taking place today
Read MoreHackney woman amongst three charged with showing support for Palestine Action
Fiona Maclean to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in September
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