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Hackney Council’s chief executive given extended leave to deal with ‘family matters’
‘Council business continues as usual,’ says Town Hall spokesman
Read More‘Farce’: Motorcyclists and opposition councillors blast decision to press ahead with new parking charges
Town Hall scrutiny panel backs cabinet’s approval of scheme after it was called into question
Read MoreHackney brewery joins forces with refugee women to condemn government’s illegal migration bill
Five Points and Women for Refugee Women release craft beer to inspire opposition to Whitehall’s plans
Read More‘The government is failing’: Hackney’s Green councillors join four-day climate action in Westminster
Cllrs Alastair Binnie-Lubbock and Zoë Garbett took part in demonstration outside the Department for Transport
Read MoreHackney mortuary that played a part in Operation Mincemeat set for capacity boost
Town Hall likely to sign off £800k investment in venue at heart of notorious wartime deception
Read MoreLetter: ‘Diane Abbott was wrong’
But the Conservative Party is in no position to take the moral high ground, says Sasha Simic
Read MoreDiane Abbott suspended as Labour MP over ‘deeply offensive’ letter about racism
Abbott apologises for comments suggesting Jewish, Irish and Traveller people have not suffered racism ‘all their lives’
Read More‘This can’t go on’: Homerton residents call for safer crossings on road where two children were hit by a car
Two young children suffered minor injuries on Kenworthy Road last month, but locals said it was an ‘accident waiting to happen’
Read MoreHackney Council to pay back £268k to motorists caught out by unlawful road closure
Town Hall to refund more than 3,000 fines after slip-up in the wording of a traffic notice in Springfield
Read More‘It’s not a commodity’: Parents from Dalston primary school at risk of a merger urge council bosses to rethink plans
Colvestone primary is one of six schools facing major upheaval next year because of falling pupil numbers
Read MoreChild Q: Special scrutiny meeting looking at what has changed since scandal broke to take place next week – with residents invited
Child safeguarding and policing in schools set to be a focus for councillors
Read MoreCases of alleged fraud reported to council up 15 per cent in a year
The majority involve council tenancies, with parking fraud also a big contributor
Read MoreHackney mother who fears mould in her council flat is affecting her children’s asthma calls for annual housing checks
Raeesa Patel says mould ‘keeps coming back’ at her home in Hackney Downs despite repeated treatment
Read MoreLeader – Narrow thinking
Plans for Hackney Central should make more of ‘hidden’ fruits
Read MoreTitbits – Slick and tyred
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read More‘It means something to them’: Local arts project for refugees appeals for donations to save it from closure
Creative Art Space, run by Akwaaba, helps its participants ‘feel safe and not isolated’
Read More‘Wake-up call’: New report finds thousands of child strip-searches were carried out in past four years – more than half without appropriate adult
Children’s Commissioner’s review shows ‘police cannot be trusted with the devastating power’, says London politician
Read MoreParents react to proposed primary school closures
Council cites falling pupil numbers as reason
Read MoreTwo Hackney primary schools face closure next year and four others could merge – as fall in pupil numbers leads to huge funding cuts
De Beauvoir and Randal Cremer primaries look set to shut in September 2024, with unfilled reception places rising
Read MoreTown Hall to sell off two schoolkeepers’ homes to fund decarbonisation work
Properties at Queensbridge and Shoreditch Park primaries set to go on the market
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