Posts by Hackney Citizen
Mayor Garbett unveils first Green cabinet as new era begins at the Town Hall
New mayor announces the first members of her cabinet, just days after sweeping the Greens to an historic victory at the Town Hall
Read MoreGreens set out plans for Hackney as Labour vows to ‘hold new administration to account’
Greens are jubilant following their historic sweep in last Thursday’s landslide victory that swept Labour from its 45-year dominant position in the borough
Read MoreLocal elections 2026: Green party wins majority of seats on Hackney Council
The Greens have swept to victory, winning 42 of the council’s 57 seats
Read MoreLocal elections 2026: voter turnout highest since 2010
Voter turnout for mayoral contest was 40.98 percent – the highest since 2010, when the local elections at the same time as a general election
Read MoreLocal elections 2026: Greens’ Zoë Garbett wins Hackney mayoral contest
The Green party candidate Zoë Garbett has won the Hackney mayoral contest with 35,720 votes
Read MoreMan arrested after shouting ‘shame Hitler didn’t kill you’ on 254 bus
Threats were made against Jewish passengers on a bus in Upper Clapton Road
Read MoreLocal elections 2026: polls open today – don’t forget to vote
You have until 10pm today to cast your vote for Mayor of Hackney and council ward seats.
Read MoreHackney mayoral election 2026: Five candidates to compete for borough’s top job
On 7 May, eligible residents will vote in two elections – one to choose the directly-elected mayor, and the other to pick their local councillors
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 councillor have hit out at ‘disappointing’ announcement
Read MoreHomerton 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 MoreMossbourne’s draconian ‘punishment no matter what’ regime linked to pupils’ self-harm and disproportionately targeted Black boys with harsh sanctions, damning report reveals
Practices including ‘routine shouting’ and ‘public humiliation’ were found to be taking place
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
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