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Campaigners celebrate as council vows to ‘breathe new life’ into Ridley Road with revamp of shopping village
Town Hall is taking on the lease for building that has been at the centre of anti-gentrification protests
Read More‘Let us help you’: Windrush campaigners urge people to come forward for free support – even if they don’t want to claim compensation
A group of organisations are offering mental health support as well as free legal advice if needed
Read MoreFast food couriers stage Town Hall protest as they fight for better parking near Dalston McDonald’s
Community safety boss says ‘it is not council’s job to help large-scale private companies get more business’
Read MorePeek through the looking-glass: Homerton’s second annual Window Wanderland festival to take place next month
Organisers of the community art event reveal ‘Our Earth’ theme in effort to draw attention to global warming
Read MoreWhitechapel Gallery director announces ‘emotional decision’ to step down after two decades
Iwona Blazwick’s tenure, during which audience numbers went up 300 per cent, will come to an end in April
Read MoreAnti-LTN campaigners to hold ‘people’s assembly’ outside Hackney Town Hall
Hackney Together group says it wants to show the council that ‘open, honest and constructive’ engagement is possible
Read MoreOutpouring of sexual abuse allegations from UK students acted as a ‘wake-up call’ in Hackney, say education bosses
Testimonies involving two local schools are among 54,000 on website where survivors can share their stories
Read MoreCampaigners launch appeal to fund legal fight as efforts to thwart incinerator expansion continue
Coalition of protest groups is targeting £7,500 as it gears up for battle with the North London Waste Authority
Read More‘There’s a good reason for this’: Two local nurses on vaccine hesitancy and efforts to make the jab a ‘positive experience’
Gemma Evans and colleague Gemma Davies say there is a wealth of experience and support on offer to people who are nervous
Read MoreCampaigners stage mass rally in last-minute bid to stop deal for controversial new incinerator
Over 600 people are said to have joined the march yesterday from Edmonton to the North Circular
Read MorePop-up vaccine clinics are pulling into Liverpool Street station – with health bosses hoping to reach waiting commuters
Christmas week saw highest number of jabs given since Omicron vaccine push began
Read MoreHomerton Hospital boss says number of Covid patients may be ‘plateauing’ – but staff pressures still ‘tight’
Tracey Fletcher said medics were ‘expecting a pretty dire weekend’ but actually cases ‘seemed to level out’
Read MoreHarassment and poor lighting among concerns as women respond to council safety survey
Over 200 people have reported issues since Town Hall put out the call last month
Read MoreHuge rise in e-scooter collisions in London ‘likely to be the tip of the iceberg’, warns Assembly Member
Unmesh Desai hits out at illegal e-scooters as figures show nearly as many collisions in the first six months of 2021 than in the whole of 2020
Read MoreSolar panels installed on three community buildings as council’s efforts to harness renewable energy continue
Town Hall is this year aiming to produce one megawatt of power using the sun
Read MorePublic toilets in Gillett Square would ‘likely be used for illicit activities’, councillors warned
Town Hall design officer tells planners that the ‘cons outweigh the pros’
Read MoreHackney Stand Up To Racism doubles down on Geffrye campaign following Colston Four acquittal
‘No better time for offensive statue to be removed,’ says anti-racism group
Read MoreTown Hall ‘still working to recover data’ more than a year after ‘devastating’ cyber attack
Report on October 2020 hack reveals social care, benefits and housing are among services that remain badly affected
Read MoreMotorcycle business bosses whose volunteers delivered vital medical equipment during pandemic receive honours
Husband and wife Anthony and Vikki van Someren, who run the Bike Shed in Shoreditch, helped organise a team of 1,400 riders
Read MoreCovid patients fill four wards at Homerton Hospital as 300 staff self-isolate
Close to 100 patients have the virus, but spokesman says they are ‘not as critically ill’
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