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Broken lifts, loss of hot water and overdue repairs: Hackney Council pays out ‘astonishing’ £572,000 in compensation

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 9 October 2025 at 10:49
Hackney Town Hall

Hackney councillor told officers she had gone two months without hot water in her housing block

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Collection of iconic Hackney Empire statue sculptor goes up for auction

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 7 October 2025 at 18:15
Michael Mason (left) with Hackney Empire sculpture 1989

‘The clays, the heat, the oxides and even the water used to form the things I make are in many ways equivalent to the forces which originally shaped the earth’

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Disabled man denied access to train at Homerton station over ‘made-up rule’

By Claudia Lee | Tuesday 7 October 2025 at 13:42
Zac sat in the train doors at Homerton Overground Station

‘Nobody else’s journey takes half an hour longer because they’re with four other people’

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Cake to celebrate: ‘lifeline’ Laburnum Boat Club marks its massive makeover

By Claudia Lee | Friday 3 October 2025 at 15:26

‘It’s a space where young people feel heard and valued and supported to be the best they can be’

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‘She can’t vanish’: Community mourns death of beloved local homeless woman

By Claudia Lee | Friday 3 October 2025 at 11:39

Fundraiser launched for a bench or plaque to honour Tracey O’Brien

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Final Woodberry Down plans win approval despite fears over ‘staggering’ loss of wildlife

By Claudia Lee | Friday 26 September 2025 at 15:33

Campaigners have raised concerns over biodiversity and cuts to social housing

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Come clean on buried ‘LTNs don’t cut traffic’ report, Sadiq Khan told

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 26 September 2025 at 14:35
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan

The City Hall Conservatives transport spokesman Keith Prince said mayor must reveal whether he was involved

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Popular Dalston bakery giving prison leavers tools to flourish in ‘chaotic’ London

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 26 September 2025 at 14:01

The Dusty Knuckle has been praised as an exemplar in how to support ex-offenders

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‘Desperately disappointing for bereaved and injured’ – plans to end road deaths delayed till 2026

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 24 September 2025 at 11:19

Campaigners react as second phase of TfL puts brakes on much-vaunted Vision Zero Action Plan

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Clubs boycott Saucony Run Shoreditch 10km over event sponsor’s links to Israel

By Claudia Lee | Monday 22 September 2025 at 18:51
Waking Dreams ahead of their 10km in Victoria Park, Sunday 21 September

‘We cannot allow the sport we love to be used to gloss over oppression’

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Vet suspended over cat death employed as head surgeon in Hackney

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 15:59
Goddard Veterinary Group Practice in Well Street

A series of charges of serious professional misconduct were proved against him

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Climate campaigners urge council to ‘lead by example’ on plant-based catering

By Claudia Lee | Friday 19 September 2025 at 12:42

Plant-Based Hackney fears Town Hall is ‘nowhere near as ambitious as it claims to be’

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Sadiq Khan breaks ranks with Labour government to call Gaza tragedy ‘genocide’ for first time

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 11:34
Sadiq Khan at People's Question Time, 17 September 2025

Mayor of London has previously resisted calls to label Israel’s military campaign a genocide but now says it’s “inescapable” to conclude that

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‘The spirit of a place’ – How Dalston painters and potters fought back to save studio block from closure

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 19 September 2025 at 10:46
Painter Ansel Krut in his studio

Hackney Council moved to sell off Ashwin Street’s creative workspaces earlier this year, but artists have now bought the site after refusing to give up

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Council says ‘no hard plans’ to close nurseries this year after legal challenge

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 18:22
Children's centres protest

Town Hall shelved plans to close two children’s centres, but questions linger over lessons learned from the debacle

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Hackney Council more than doubles its debt in one year – but what is the Town Hall spending on?

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 18:09
Hackney Town Hall

Hackney Council’s borrowing is below average for London, but its debt burden is set to rise five-fold by 2028

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Woman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 15:28

Officers confirm that the pair were ‘known to each other’ and they believe it was an ‘isolated incident’

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Former councillor defends Morning Lane role following ‘insider’ claims

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 17:45

Vincent Stops responds to a report by campaigners that called his involvement an ‘egregious lack of transparency’

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Homerton dietician warns of ‘postcode lottery’ over access to weight loss drugs

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 15 September 2025 at 11:31

The London Assembly Health Committee heard that high demand for the drugs in London has forced consumers into buying counterfeit medicines

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Man who planned Hackney shooting that left girl with bullet in her brain sentenced to life

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 12 September 2025 at 18:01

Javon Riley given minimum term of 34 years for ‘meticulously organising’ attack at Evin restaurant last year

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