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Charity questions Town Hall decision to take support services for carers inhouse
City and Hackney Carers Centre say insourcing will ‘add to the workload of already hard pressed social workers’
Read MoreGP surgery in Clapton to close permanently – leaving top medics ‘disappointed’
Patients at Sorsby Medical Practice to be transferred to other GPs at end of June
Read MoreTown Hall bosses grilled over inadequate rating for supported living services
‘It was just not monitored in a regular enough way to keep up-to-date with best practice’
Read MoreLength of planned strike by bus drivers for disabled children increases
Workers left unimpressed by council reminders of existing employment benefits
Read MoreTown Hall sanctions rent caps in Hackney Wick to ‘protect its creative heart’
New developments will be forced to re-provide existing workspace at less than half the market rate
Read MoreWomen’s rehab centre set up by Amy Winehouse’s family wins national award
Amy’s Place, an east London housing project for young women recovering from addiction, is recognised by Centre for Social Justice
Read More‘My doorstep was cordoned off for smoking’: Arts venue opening fills neighbours with ‘dread’
Alcohol licence for Overlock Arts facing stiff opposition from locals
Read MoreHistoric Newington Green Meeting House shuts for a year as work begins on £1.8m revamp
The National Lottery is funding a new visitor centre and disabled access – as New Unity church moves out temporarily
Read MoreHeart-stopping CCTV shows man narrowly avoid a collapsing roof in Stoke Newington
Shocking near miss happened on the busy high street on Sunday as gale-force winds hit the UK
Read MoreShush, this is a building site!: Recording studio ‘reassured’ by promise of quiet construction tests
Historic Strongroom Studios secure condition that neighbouring development won’t go ahead without noise controls
Read MoreHackney’s female politicians mark International Women’s Day
‘We’re blazing a trail’, says borough’s newest councillor Penny Wrout
Read MoreJennette Arnold calls for more blue plaques for women – as Hackney charity welcomes nod for activist Claudia Jones
Hackney’s London Assembly representative says current disparity between men and women ‘nothing to celebrate’
Read MoreTown Hall slammed for ‘chronic failure’ in releasing data under Freedom of Information
Council responds to only two-thirds of requests within statutory time limit
Read MoreBrewDog bar greenlit despite ire of Dalston residents
Residents’ association raises concerns over cumulative impact
Read More‘Enough is enough’: Bus drivers for Hackney’s disabled children to strike over pay
Trade union hits out at Town Hall ‘intransigence’ over split shift compensation
Read MoreOfsted rebukes council over slip in ‘quality of practice for vulnerable children’
Town Hall urged to take swift action over ‘areas of weakness’ in child protection
Read MoreThames Water admits Lea Bridge floods were ‘too much’ for it to handle
‘If this was in another country, you would have had the Red Cross there, because it was that devastating’
Read MoreBullying row rumbles on as council hits back at unions with counter-allegations of ‘intimidatory behaviour’
Town Hall reacts angrily to trade unions pulling their support for investigation into working culture at its call centre
Read MoreSupervisor removed from Morning Lane roadworks following alleged assault
Police enquiries continue as victim claims Marlborough employee ‘pushed me aggressively in the chest’
Read MoreBrownlow Road residents complain of ‘Rolls-Royce prices’ in service charges
Housing chief vows to go through 17-page list of charges ‘line by line’
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