Posts by Hackney Citizen
Council 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
Read MoreIndefinite ban for Hackney man who left dogs in crates without food or water
Matthew Berry handed lifetime ban following RSPCA investigation
Read MoreFundraiser launched to help pay funeral costs of ‘amazing’ Hackney musician
Adrian Owusu, member of local band The Heliocentrics, died in July
Read MorePetition urging council to freeze nursery fee hike hits 500 signatures
One signatory calls move ‘slap to the face of hard-working families’, but Town Hall says ‘it was a choice we had to make’
Read MoreHomerton health workers celebrate ‘long overdue’ pay increase
Clinical support workers secure wage hike and back pay following lengthy union-backed campaign
Read MoreRSPCA launches investigation after two kittens abandoned near Victoria Park
Animal welfare charity also looking into reports of a man taunting dogs with a live rabbit on Mare Street
Read MoreCampaigners to oppose latest effort to turn historic Victoria Park pub into ‘luxury home’
Campaign for Real Ale to fight plans for 400-year-old Albion pub – just twelve months after previous proposals were rejected
Read MoreHackney man wrongfully convicted of murder launches new fight for compensation
Sam Hallam joins forces with other exonerees to call for legal test to be scrapped
Read MoreHackney Migrant Centre founding member Wendy Pettifer passes away aged 72
Pettifer, a housing lawyer and ‘fierce radical social justice warrior’, died following a long illness
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