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Hackney Council posts newspaper-style story online, despite claims of not competing with local press
The council has declined to rule out launching an online newspaper
Read MoreRashan Charles: Police officer being investigated for ‘gross misconduct’
IPCC chief says officer’s behaviour when restraining Charles, who later died in hospital, ‘may have breached police standards’
Read MoreMomentum U-turns on open selection to protect ‘four left-wing councillors’ from non-Corbynite challengers
Group had earlier called open selection ‘democratic’ and the ‘best option’ for socialists
Read MoreTeaching vacancies at Hackney primaries ‘above average’, the most recent data suggests
‘It is not unusual to have three vacancies across all 53 of Hackney’s primary schools’, says council spokesperson
Read MoreCouncil offers £30k for job ‘sorting papers’ of ex-Mayor Jules Pipe
‘You will need to have a head for heights due to the tall racking!’ the Town Hall warns applicants
Read MoreAnti-poverty charity slams Town Hall’s ‘absurd’ council tax proposals
Zacchaeus 2000 Trust says changes to relief scheme will ‘take money out of the pockets of their poorest residents’, but council says government cuts led to decision
Read MoreTown Hall misses high priority blaze threat targets three times
Guidance set by safety experts on dealing with ‘P1’ risks is that they must be fixed within a month
Read MoreHackney Council’s letting agency does not exist, Town Hall admits
Priority Homes scheme billed as a social letting agency ‘because that’s how most people would understand its function’
Read MoreBusiness rates: Town Hall launches consultation on £7m relief fund
Residents can have a say on how money is dished out to local businesses, which were hit hard by this year’s rates hike
Read MoreFire risks at council property left unchecked for over five years
When an assessment was eventually carried out this year, it found there was no fire detection or alarm system.
Read MoreCharity’s River Lea reedbed drive hits 1000-metre landmark
Thames 21’s volunteer project creates habitats for wildlife and helps to reduce pollution
Read MoreHackney Council freesheet claims to be a ‘fortnightly newspaper’ – but legally may be neither
Hackney Today ‘appears to be in breach of the law’, says Citizen editor
Read MoreWorking age households could face extra £100 a year burden under new council tax proposals
Mayor Glanville says planned change to tax reduction scheme is the ‘fairest option’ amid ‘massive funding shortfall’
Read MoreDisability campaign group slams council’s user-unfriendly fire risk map
Lack of accessibility is ‘denying disabled people the opportunity to play a full role in Hackney life’
Read MoreJust two letting agents sign up to council’s fee-scrapping scheme in its first month
Town Hall is asking local agents to stop charging letting fees voluntarily ahead of expected government ban
Read MoreLondon Fields Lido finally gets reopening date – after end of summer
The pool will throw its doors back open to swimmers on the last day of September
Read MoreHackney among worst boroughs in London for health inequality, new figures show
Only residents in Tower Hamlets and Haringey spend longer in ill health, as Town Hall cites ‘financial deprivation’ and better life expectancy
Read MoreGCSE results: Hackney students ‘excel yet again’ in face of major reforms
Borough’s deputy mayor sings praises of students after they outperform national figures
Read MoreHackney pupils pick up their GCSE results
Follow the latest from schools as the first students to be impacted by new GCSE reforms open those all-important envelopes
Read MoreUrswick is first school in Hackney to bag national equality award
Staff ‘extremely proud’ of tribute recognising the school’s commitment to challenging discrimination
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