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Read MoreAkwaaba – a place of welcome for Hackney’s migrants
Social centre helps immigrants and asylum seekers integrate into community life, writes Michael Boyle
Read MorePolice hunt man suspected of grabbing 11-year-old girl
Description of suspect is released following attack, which happened last Tuesday in Homerton
Read MoreLetter – ‘Cycling pundits push a social divide’
A Hackney resident responds to our article about conflicts between people on two wheels and those on foot
Read MoreTown Hall evacuated and Mare Street partially closed after explosion
‘Nobody was injured, the police and the council are dealing with the incident,’ says spokesperson
Read MoreNew mayor says: ‘No decision yet on Britannia’s future’
Written reply came after three campaign groups raised fears the leisure centre was set to be demolished
Read MoreLeader – Hackney’s new mayor must pull off a delicate balancing act
We wish Mayor Glanville well but will hold him to his pledges and keep asking questions
Read MoreTitbits: misspellings, Hackney ‘Cancel’ and is the honeymoon over for Sadiq?
Gaffes, oddities and frayed tempers feature in this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreNational Union of Teachers’ blasts shock plan to make all Hackney schools academies
All Hackney’s schools could end up becoming academies under Hackney Learning Trust’s proposal
Read MoreHackney Council redacted ‘secret’ payments worth £14m in one month, report finds
Anti-corruption charity accuses local authorities of ‘lacking transparency’ over spending
Read MoreBorough’s ‘inspirational’ buildings to contest Hackney Design Awards
Shortlist revealed for biennial celebration of local architecture
Read MoreMore Syrian refugees arrive – but Hackney is only East London borough to take any
Josh Loeb reports on how the Syrian Resettlement Programme works and concerns over funding
Read MoreBy-election to take place in Hoxton West on 3 November
Candidates will be contesting newly-elected Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville’s former seat
Read More‘Avid reeders’ use much-maligned plant to tackle pollution in River Lea
‘Army’ of reedbed volunteers are using nature to fight pollution in an operation to clean up East London’s waterways
Read MoreThey shall not pass! Commemorating the Battle of Cable Street
This month a series of events marks 80 years since this defining episode in East London’s history
Read MoreHackney’s new mayor Philip Glanville speaks out on Momentum, refugees and his husband’s tweets
In first major interview since being sworn in as Mayor of Hackney, the man at the helm in the Town Hall insists Labour locally will be united
Read MoreStopping traffic ‘critical’ to Chatsworth Road market survival, organisers warn
Residents’ survey reveals 80 per cent support vehicle ban between the Dunlace and Rushmore Road junctions during Sunday market hours
Read MoreSnap happy for Photomonth – UK’s largest photography festival returns
East London galleries to hold over 100 free photography exhibitions on topics ranging from the personal and esoteric to global political events
Read MoreEast London NHS Foundation Trust rated outstanding by health watchdog
Regulator the Care Quality Commission visited sites including Hackney base in grounds of Homerton Hospital
Read MoreMother and disabled child inappropriately housed after fleeing domestic violence, council admits
Hackney woman, who declined to be named, had to carry her wheelchair-using child up stairs to reach bathroom
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