Posts by Hackney Citizen
Rio Cinema workers to strike over living wage and redundancies
Workers at the Dalston cinema are demanding to be paid the London Living Wage
Read MoreHackney environmental lawyers welcome London Mayor’s vow to combat air pollution
‘Today’s announcement should send a clear message to the UK government,’ says ClientEarth
Read MoreFour found guilty of Marcel Addai gang murder
Hoxton gang members face life in prison over fatal knife attack on teenager
Read MoreGovernment spends over £100,000 fighting air pollution case against Hackney lawyers
Department of Environment and Rural Affairs spent at least £105,000 of taxpayers’ money in court challenges over illegal air pollution
Read MorePeople want terraces not tower blocks, says housing crisis expert
We don’t have to build up to solve London’s housing crisis, says co-founder of research institute
Read MoreAzealia Banks axed from Hackney music festival after racist rant at Zayn Malik
US rapper was due to perform at Rinse Born & Bred festival in Haggerston Park, but has been told she’s no longer welcome after Twitter meltdown
Read More‘Ban barbecues on London Fields,’ demand residents left fuming over heatwave litter
Council says it will step up security during hot weather after London Fields was left covered in rubbish
Read MoreResidents and revellers at loggerheads as night-time economy row reignites
Town Hall runs consultation for second time following flawed attempt last summer
Read MorePetition launched after receptionist from Hackney ‘sent home for not wearing heels’
Actor was sent home from a corporate receptionist job without pay after refusing to wear high heels
Read MoreStephen Staunton's 'dramas of colour' make Headway in Bethnal Green this month
Stephen Staunton started painting his ‘patchwork dramas of colour’ after he sustained a brain injury
Read MoreAbney Park Trust slams Stoke Newington greengrocer’s expansion plans
Charitable trust fears for character of the historic park’s gates after shop’s planning application is submitted
Read MoreObituary – Barry Hunt
Tributes paid to homeless man who was a friendly face around Hackney Central
Read MoreAviary exhibition wings its way to Transition Gallery
Hackney gallery has been transformed into an artistic bird house
Read MoreGovernment’s Right to Buy policy to cost Hackney Council £90m
Councils will be forced to sell off their most valuable homes to fund the extension of the policy
Read MoreCounting East London’s eels as they ebb from the River Lea
Once omnipresent in culture and waterways, efforts are now under way to tally – and save – the area’s dwindling eel population
Read MoreAfter Independence: staging the politics of Zimbabwe
The complex power dynamics of Zimbabwe post-independence is the subject of a new play at the Arcola
Read MoreBishopsgate Goodsyard top of new Mayor’s planning agenda
Sadiq Khan has a golden chance to rework the controversial Bishopsgate Goodsyard scheme, in a test case for the newly-elected London mayor
Read MoreLabour’s Jennette Arnold wins fourth term on London Assembly with landslide majority
Ms Arnold was backed by almost 60 per cent of voters
Read MoreLabour wins Stoke Newington and Hackney Downs byelections
Labour candidates Patrick Moule and Sem Moema claim comfortable victories in byelections
Read MoreAnother World, National Theatre, review: 'reminder how powerful a tool verbatim theatre can be'
Verbatim play tackles radicalisation and includes interviews with Muslim teenagers from East London
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