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Pillow cinema team’s £45k bid to restore derelict Castle picturehouse
The team behind London pop-up cinema events has launched a £45,000 appeal to reopen the derelict cinema on Chatsworth Road
Read MoreManufacturing discontent: where has all the industrial space gone?
A growing population and the housing crisis are creating a shortage of industrial land
Read MoreStik draws cash to help credit homeless Hackney residents
Residents of St Mungo’s hostel in Mare Street can now earn ‘credits’ by volunteering in the community
Read MoreTitbits – DSS discrimination by landlords, democratic deficits and DripApp
How to lance the boil of Homerton-style prejudice and pre-pay for coffees with monthly price plans
Read MoreLeader – Foster care sex child abuse scandal demands policy review
Rape and sexual assault of five girls by foster carer could have been prevented
Read MoreNSPCC criticises police over Hackney foster care child sex abuse
Children’s charity weighs in as pressure mounts for police review
Read MoreHackney passes budget amid protests against cuts to services
One protester said: ‘You should be ashamed of yourselves!’
Read MoreMeg Hillier MP condemns ‘onslaught’ against housing benefit renters after Digs protest
Calls it ‘almost impossible’ to rent thanks to private landlords and benefit cap
Read MoreCommunal gardens come into bloom
The Nomadic Community Gardens social enterprise transforms disused land into something for everyone
Read MoreCate Le Bon to play Chats Palace anniversary celebrations
Resurgent arts venue seeks to increase its output, and has launched a fundraising scheme
Read MoreFoster care child sex abuse could happen again, warns Hackney safeguarding chief
‘Huge risk’ of further sexual abuse, as police body rules out policy review
Read MoreYanis Varoufakis speaks truth to power at Clapton economics talk
Former Greek finance minister was high-profile name at Round Chapel event to get ‘ordinary people’ interested in philosophy, politics and economics
Read MoreOscar win for Hackney director Asif Kapadia
Amy Winehouse documentary completes clean sweep of major awards with Academy Award win
Read MoreCouncil incompetence left up to 1,300 voters unable to vote in General Election, damning report finds
Voters left off electoral register due to bureaucratic bungling as new system rolled out
Read MoreDigs campaign slams ‘discrimination’ against renters on housing benefit
‘No DSS’ policy affects disabled and low income workers
Read MoreRow breaks out on Twitter after police ‘blame’ injured cyclist for #NoHelmet
Police tweeted #NoHelmet after an elderly man was knocked off his bike by a van
Read MorePlane Stupid runway activists spared jail
All 13 climate change protesters found guilty of aggrevated trespass handed suspended sentences
Read MoreHackney Community College to merge with Tower Hamlets College amid budget squeeze
Public asked to suggest a new name for colleges’ governance structure
Read MoreOrthodox Jewish schools slammed for ‘narrow views of role of women in society’
Ofsted finds multiple failings at two independent religious schools in Stamford Hill
Read MoreTree planted for Hackney teen on third anniversary of murder
Family and friends held a memorial service for Joseph Burke-Monerville
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