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Scrapping poverty targets will make children ‘invisible’, charity warns
Department for Work and Pensions plans to stop measuring child hardship in favour of measures tackling ‘root causes’
Read More‘Tis the season to get your Christmas greens
What can Hackney’s space-strapped growers do to bring some leafiness into their homes this Christmas?
Read MoreStudents occupy gallery over plans to sell-off Cass art school
One campus policy sparks protest as campaign to ‘save the Aldgate Bauhaus’ intensifies
Read MoreNumber of mental health emergencies spikes
Help hotline gets more calls as ambulances struggle to cope
Read MoreHackney Winter Night Shelter predicts increasing demand for fourth year in row
Local charity has 700 volunteers but need is ‘greater than ever’
Read MorePolice issue urgent appeal after rape in Amhurst Road
Detectives have released an e-fit image of a man they want to question about the attack
Read MoreCouncil waves through plans for 30-storey hotel complex in Shoreditch
Campaigners claim decision to grant planning permission ‘undermines’ opposition to Bishopsgate Goodsyard scheme
Read MoreMeet the man asking Hackney to ‘donate privilege’
Founder of Arts Emergency explains why we need to tackle privilege in the arts
Read MoreCouncil backpedals over London Fields cycleway
Town Hall has delayed three-month trial of cycle quietway trial after the new consultation period
Read MoreEast London collective Assemble become first 'non-artists' to win the Turner Prize
Stratford-based group collects prestigious award for its project that blurs the boundary between art and architecture
Read MoreEast London collective Assemble become first ‘non-artists’ to win the Turner Prize
Stratford-based group collects prestigious award for its project that blurs the boundary between art and architecture
Read MoreFormer superhead wrongly appointed to DfE post due to ‘administrative error’
Greg Wallace resigns from government advisory role after Department for Education alerted to ongoing investigation
Read MoreResidents facing fuel or food dilemma this Christmas
Choice between paying bills and buying groceries is the stark reality for lower income families in Hackney, claims charity
Read MoreAnti-hipster graffiti ‘misdirected,’ says Well Street Pizza
Vandals have targeted other new businesses in Hackney
Read MoreHackney MPs vote against air strikes against ISIS in Syria
Last night politicians cast their vote on whether the UK should join US-led bombing campaign
Read MoreCare leavers invited to poet Lemn Sissay’s Hackney Christmas dinner
Nationwide project aims to leave ‘no care leaver alone’ on Christmas Day
Read MorePolice release CCTV images following Old Street sexual assault
The wanted pair are alleged to have assaulted a woman on Old Street
Read MoreInternational Migrants Day celebrations come to East London
Hackney screenwriter Tony Grisoni to introduce Bafta-winning film at Whitechapel Gallery event on migration
Read MoreSave our hedgehogs: numbers in continuing decline, report warns
There have been no sightings of the prickly mammal in Hackney for two years
Read MoreChristmas toy appeal makes final plea for donations
With one week to go, Stokey Parents are half-way to reaching target
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