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Campaign group casts doubt on accuracy of council’s air quality monitoring
‘Even a metre makes a difference’ say campaigners as errors found in Town Hall’s air quality annual status report
Read MoreHackney-based app for blind people wins start-up award and £35k in funding
Wayfindr, a non-profit founded in 2015, helps visually impaired people travel indoors
Read MoreHomerton Hospital to launch new exhibition honouring its long bond with local artist
Painter and former primary school teacher Rosemary Phelps has worked with the hospital for over 30 years
Read MoreOne in ten people could lose access to non-emergency ambulances
Health bosses in north-east London are trying to tackle a £24 million annual overspend
Read MoreTown Hall to bring carer support services in-house after ‘satisfaction decline’
New approach seeks to respond to concerns current model has council ‘not fully meeting its duty under the Care Act’
Read MoreWho’s your unsung hero?: Nominations open for Mayor’s Civic Awards
Town Hall asks people to put forward their neighbourhood champions by early April
Read MoreCouncil Tax hike of almost five per cent included in budget proposals
Average Hackney property facing a near £50 a year rise as mayor takes aims at continuing austerity
Read MoreRolling Stock handed three-month ban as police blame late opening for stabbing death
Councillor wishes she had imposed more stringent search policy ‘because it might have averted what happened’
Read MoreLubomyr Melnyk, EartH, review: ‘A master of his discipline’
The unconventional pianist put on a ‘bewitching’ show to celebrate his 70th birthday
Read MoreThe Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions
Read MoreTitbits – Soporific stories and disappearing Tories
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – Glass houses
The council can learn from the police’s admission that it’s training in people skills doesn’t fit the bill
Read MoreTown Hall reveals ‘tight action plan’ in response to damning report on care services
Community health director expresses ‘deep regret that more watchful eye was not kept’
Read MoreConservative councillor refuses Town Hall food over ‘stolen parking money’
Housing director labels claims ‘absurd’ and ‘based on a false premise’
Read MoreMs Paolini’s Phantasmagoria Cabaret returns to Hackney
The Italian performer is back at Hoxton Hall next month with an evening of mime, dance, music and comedy
Read MoreCouncil surprise as Hackney police to receive ‘conflict resolution’ training – for the first time
Police officers to be trained in ‘how to prevent things escalating out of control’ in Hackney and Tower Hamlets pilot
Read MoreJSS Bach, Martin Goodman, book review: ‘Searing pain endures for generations’
In a book twenty years in the making, the local author ‘treads delicately around identity, values and life purpose’
Read MoreShoreditch Art Wall: Businessman set to sue developers over alleged ‘broken agreement’
Peter Mackeonis launches campaign to fund legal bid after another company was put in charge of the wall – but developer says it has done everything ‘by the book’
Read MoreTalking rubbish: Council loses track of fly-tipping rates for a whole year
Hackney Lib Dems accuse the Town Hall of not taking the problem seriously
Read MoreBorough’s rough sleeping rise an ‘outrage’, says housing needs chief
Government called upon to “use its powers to make a difference” as rates rise Londonwide by 13 per cent
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