Posts by Hackney Citizen
Wilton Estate residents ‘excited’ by rooftop solar farm bid
Community group Hackney Energy backing residents’ pitch for City Hall funding
Read MoreConcert pitch: Hackney’s gig guide for December ’17
Christmas jazz, a Scottish troubadour, chicken nuggets and new music from SEO-unfriendly London band Totally – it’s all in this month’s gig guide
Read MoreHackney the perfect Petri dish for new vegan burger experiment Doppleganger
We sent a reviewer to take one of the very first London bites of this Cambridge creation – does it live up to the claim that it ‘could be mistaken for meat’? And perhaps more importantly, is it tasty?
Read MoreHackney parents slam ‘catastrophic’ plans to cut high needs funding
Council’s proposal to ‘speed up funding process’ could see support slashed by up to 90 per cent
Read MoreHaggerston Baths: Future to be decided next week – but no new pool
Preferred bid for iconic building’s redevelopment to go before Cabinet on Monday
Read MoreCouncil issues stubborn response to Hackney Today legal threat
Government has ordered the Town Hall to cut back its freesheet by February
Read MoreCharity launches urgent £100k appeal to save playground for disabled children
‘Lifeline for hundreds of families’ facing closure due to lack of funding
Read MoreBroken masonry ‘crashes 100 feet’ from London Fields council block
No reports of injuries so far after debris was left scattered across the road next to Morland Estate
Read MoreControversial PSPO is back in Hackney – but ‘only relates to alcohol’
The council axed its previous PSPO in 2015 after it was slammed for ‘criminalising the homeless’
Read MoreThe Unburied: The Saint of Darkness, play review, Rose Lipman Building: ‘song, movement, light and poetry’
The ‘Mother Theresa meets Greek mythology’ plot may be a tad obtuse, but this memorable piece of dark, poetic theatre makes the most of its unusual staging
Read MoreRaising Hackney: Diane Abbott and Mayor Glanville celebrate Northwold Estate community centre
The community centre is celebrating a new name and the involvement of a new charity
Read MoreModern Art is Rubbish: Gavin Turk on making a packet – literally – for the Skip Gallery
“I look back at the rubbish and think “shit, that rubbish can tell us the story of everything!”
Read MoreCouncil to hand out flowers ahead of domestic violence awareness drive
Town Hall supporting UK charity’s ‘Blooming Strong’ campaign with 16 days of activism
Read MoreHackney Quakers make amends for disowning radical anti-slavery dwarf 300 years ago
North London branch hoping to ‘resuscitate the memory’ of revolutionary abolitionist Benjamin Lay
Read More‘Deliberately unclear’: Residents slam council over ‘misleading’ Dalston plans
Scathing consultation response leads council to accept ‘distrust’ over its motives for regeneration
Read MoreGrenfell: Over 100,000 people join call for £1 billion Whitehall sprinkler fund
Labour’s ‘Make Homes Safe’ petition was hand-delivered to the Treasury today
Read MoreYour chance to win a FREE ticket to a Russian Revolution documentary
Students and those unemployed can take advantage of the offer to attend a screening of ‘myth-busting’ film 1917: Why The Russian Revolution Matters – without paying a rouble
Read MoreHelp pick out local landmarks to ‘preserve Hackney’s character’
Council asks residents to nominate their favourites for its heritage list
Read MoreGrenfell: ‘No plans’ for resident-led fire safety panel, says Hackney Council
Camden setting up fire safety panel ‘led by tenants’, but Hackney to rely on ‘existing network’ of resident groups
Read MoreHackney’s public sector workers nearly £3,000 worse off thanks to pay caps
Mayor Glanville slams ‘unfair’ caps as Trades Union Congress counts the cost
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