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Councillors close bar for good after bouncers help knife attack suspects escape through back door
Heart of Hackney on Mare Street admits nine separate licensing breaches
Read MoreBreakin’ Convention, Sadler’s Wells, dance review: ‘Adaptable, astounding and delightful’
The inspirational festival of hip-hop returns to the stage and lives up to its name
Read MorePlans for crumbling St Leonard’s Hospital could involve parts of Grade-II listed building being sold for housing
Controversial Whipps Cross sell-off being looked at as a ‘template’
Read MoreCounter-terrorism chief warns Londoners not to get ‘complacent’
Metropolitan Police commander says ‘substantial’ number of roughly 800 active probes are centred on the capital
Read MoreLocal campaign for arriving Hongkongers wins backing of London Assembly Member
Sem Moema calls for ‘significant gaps’ in Whitehall’s new visa scheme to be plugged
Read MoreThree Homerton Hospital initiatives shortlisted for prestigious awards
Two Covid projects and a virtual language therapy tool have received national recognition
Read MoreTown Hall announces summer programme of Queer self-defence and art workshops
Events to be held throughout August at Haggerston Community Centre
Read MoreCouncil told restaurants to switch to deliveries during pandemic – but many were booted off Deliveroo and Uber Eats after cyber attack wiped food safety scores
Licensing boss reveals environmental health service was brought to a ‘standstill’ following October’s hack
Read More‘It’s been an absolute honour’: Hackney CVS chief to step down after 14 years
Jake Ferguson will leave in August to become CEO of a new black civil rights charity
Read MoreCouncil admits it can’t guarantee safety of ‘burnt-out’ social workers after cyber attack wipes key database
Social care boss says October’s hack left staff without case notes until April
Read MoreFour Orthodox schools in Hackney fail 29 of last 30 Ofsted visits between them
Bnois Jerusalem, Wiznitz Cheder, Talmud Torah Yetev Lev, and TTD Gur schools have all been rated ‘inadequate’ since at least 2014
Read MoreHeadteacher accuses council of plotting school closures with ‘data that doesn’t stack up’
Urswick’s Richard Brown says Town Hall assumes ‘number of kids in primary school will be exactly replicated by the time they go to secondary school’
Read MoreCouncil rakes in £2.7m by fining drivers for breaching LTNs – but 80 per cent don’t even live in Hackney
‘Figures demonstrate scale of challenge to eliminate through-traffic’, says transport boss
Read MoreCouncil to introduce Blue Badge exemption in low traffic neighbourhoods
Residents with companion badges will be able to bypass restrictions if schemes are made permanent
Read MoreLocal British-Vietnamese archives saved from ‘dreadful vandalism’
Rare literature and artefacts to undergo emergency conservation treatment
Read MoreLondon’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered double-decker buses hits the streets
London Mayor Sadiq Khan says city is ‘moving closer’ to target of completely zero-emission bus fleet by 2030
Read MoreCouncillor shares first-hand experience of racial profiling at hands of police as she demands changes to Stop and Search
Soraya Adejare told how police officers pulled her over for “looking lost” – even though she was driving home from work
Read MoreProtesters demand Hackney Council divest from companies that operate in the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’
Around 60 people attended the protest organised by Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) with support from Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)
Read MoreEducation boss reveals remote learning left Hackney’s poorest kids behind on writing, maths and fine motor skills
Councillors warned that attainment gap will continue to grow without ‘big bit of work’ from teachers
Read MoreProtesters demand removal of slaver statue as Museum of the Home reopens
Demonstration comes after Museum’s decision to keep the likeness of Robert Geffrye above its entrance
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