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Petition 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 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 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 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 MoreHackney voters in multiple polling cards mix-up
Duplicate entries on electoral register remain despite efforts to remove them
Read MoreVoters complain of ballot problems at Hackney polling stations
Hackney residents had problems as they tried to cast their votes this morning for a new London mayor and London Assembly members
Read MoreHomerton Hospital spends £2 million on pathology lab that was never built
Trust claims no money has been wasted in spite of the fact the project is at a standstill
Read MoreMeet the North East candidates for May 2016 London Assembly elections
Everything you need to know to choose your assembly member on 5 May
Read MoreHackney New School to unveil new art, music and science buildings
Hackney rapper Professor Green will launch extra facilities on Friday
Read MoreSir David Attenborough opens Woodberry Wetlands nature reserve
Contact with nature is our ‘birthright’, says veteran broadcaster, as land sealed off for nearly two centuries is finally opened to the public
Read MoreDrowning of teenager Jack Susianta who fled police was accident, inquest rules
Police reject criticism they seemed ‘hesitant’ to help as teenager disappeared in river Lea
Read MoreMiscarriage of justice victim Sam Hallam takes compensation battle to Supreme Court
Legal fight taken to highest court in the land as Court of Appeal dismisses Sam Hallam’s compensation claim for the seven years he spent in prison
Read MoreJunior doctors descend on Hackney Town Hall during second day of strike
‘We’re here at the Town Hall because we really want this to be heard by the public,’ said one protester
Read MoreDalston to hold wicker man blaze to herald start of summer
Foraging group to stage ‘May Fest’ in Abbot Street car park this Saturday
Read MoreCampaigners stage protests against ‘damaging’ Housing Bill
Activists held vigil outside Town Hall before marching on Westminster in a weekend of protest
Read MoreNo refugees from Syria have been provided sanctuary by Hackney Council
The first Syrian refugee has yet to be resettled in Hackney, despite Mayor Jules Pipe last year saying the council wanted to ‘stand up and help’
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