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Two Hackney residents among winners of the London Writers Awards 2021
Carla Montemayor and Elizabeth Chan chosen for ten-month development course designed to improve diversity in publishing
Read MoreOrganiser of 400-person wedding in Stamford Hill facing £10k fine
Borough’s police chief hits out at ‘unacceptable’ behaviour when ‘people across the country are postponing or cancelling celebrations’
Read More‘No Year 7 exclusions’: Town Hall pilot aims to support at-risk pupils
Trial focused on easing the transition from primary to secondary school to be rolled out this year
Read MoreEmpty Hoxton car park to be transformed into 73 homes
Twenty-eight properties will be for social rent in latest project for Town Hall’s housing supply programme
Read MoreHackney postal voters asked to reapply with Town Hall’s election system left damaged by cyber attack
Affected residents have been notified ahead of local and London polls in May, but council insists ‘no evidence voter data has been stolen’
Read MoreLondon Mayor acted unlawfully with Bishopsgate traffic scheme, High Court rules
‘Unfair’ to restrict access to licensed taxis, judge finds, with Hackney Mayor now ‘considering implications’ for borough’s LTNs
Read MoreTown Hall set to spend £10m buying up ex-council properties to help with housing crisis
Councillors to vote on whether to release cash for purchase of 25 former right-to-buy homes
Read MoreTown Hall sets out 20-year vision for Hackney’s parks and green spaces
Bold plans include a network of green infrastructure linking various parts of the borough, though council faces calls to ‘protect existing biodiversity’ too
Read MoreTown Hall ‘poised’ to close schools in response to falling pupil numbers
Primary schools in jeopardy as demand for reception places continues to drop
Read MoreStaff at Hackney doctors’ surgery named ‘GP Team of the Year’
Richmond Road Medical Centre in Dalston recognised at the prestigious National General Medical Practice Awards for fourth year running
Read MoreThousands of laptops still needed for Hackney home learners, says Deputy Mayor
Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, the borough’s education boss, on the digital divide, exam grading, and free school meals
Read MoreTwo rapid testing sites for people without Covid symptoms open in Hackney
The centres in Dalston and Stoke Newington are aimed at people who cannot work or volunteer from home
Read MoreA third of Hackney residents may have had coronavirus, data suggests
Watchdog gives clearest picture yet of Covid’s spread across the borough, as Homerton Hospital is stretched to the limit
Read MoreCouncil’s housing waiting list plans will ‘make terrible situation worse’, warn campaigners
Morning Lane People’s Space calls on Town Hall to ‘contest government’s limits, not concede to them’
Read MoreAnti-LTN campaign group issues formal legal challenge to Hackney Council
Horrendous Hackney Road Closures applies for judicial review over what it claims were ‘unlawful’ consultation and assessment failures
Read MoreSandford Court residents celebrate as Covid test centre relocated
The site, which provoked multiple complaints from locals, has moved to a recently vacated bus garage
Read MoreHackney energy firm to help deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen-powered train
Arcola Energy, based in Dalston, tasked with developing ‘potential game-changer’ in country’s ambition for zero-emissions rail travel
Read MoreCouncil chief executive announces retirement after 13 years in the job
Hackney Mayor pays tribute to Tim Shields, who will step aside on 31 May
Read More‘It struck fear into us’: Happy Man Tree campaigners slam Town Hall for ‘overreach’ in court injunction
Following the tree’s felling earlier this month, locals speak out about their ‘humiliating treatment’
Read More‘Slap in the face’: Anti-lockdown posters at local Wetherspoons spark outrage
Baxter’s Court pub removes material following condemnation from council leaders and ‘infuriated’ health workers
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