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Homerton health workers celebrate ‘long overdue’ pay increase
Clinical support workers secure wage hike and back pay following lengthy union-backed campaign
Read MoreCouncil to cap e-bike fares and charge carriers £80 to collect badly parked cycles
Local restaurateur say current scheme feels ‘a bit of a Wild West’
Read MoreRSPCA launches investigation after two kittens abandoned near Victoria Park
Animal welfare charity also looking into reports of a man taunting dogs with a live rabbit on Mare Street
Read MoreCampaigners to oppose latest effort to turn historic Victoria Park pub into ‘luxury home’
Campaign for Real Ale to fight plans for 400-year-old Albion pub – just twelve months after previous proposals were rejected
Read MoreHackney man wrongfully convicted of murder launches new fight for compensation
Sam Hallam joins forces with other exonerees to call for legal test to be scrapped
Read MoreHackney Migrant Centre founding member Wendy Pettifer passes away aged 72
Pettifer, a housing lawyer and ‘fierce radical social justice warrior’, died following a long illness
Read MoreHackney councillor walks out of domestic violence debate after rejected amendment
Cllr Claudia Turbet-Delof leaves chamber after Labour votes against call to protect undocumented migrant women
Read MoreEast Londoners react to plans for ‘dangerous’ Shoreditch junction
Locals share views on Transport for London’s proposals for revamped roads, cycle lanes and crossings
Read MoreTown Hall celebrates 33 Green Flag awards – the joint best haul in London
Mayor praises ‘dedicated’ parks team and volunteers for accolades that recognise well-maintained public spaces
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Read MoreCouncil warned of ‘damaging’ school behaviour policies and ‘racism’ towards pupils
Town Hall reviewing behaviour policies in bid to bring down suspensions and exclusions
Read MoreMossbourne: complaints review led by Anne Whyte KC expected to conclude ‘in the autumn’
‘The Federation is permitted the opportunity to reflect on the recommendations and they may choose to make a public comment thereafter’
Read More‘Biblical themes abound’ – Jonah Non Grata at the Hen and Chickens
‘Hilariously incongruous snippets of popular culture and much zany improv’
Read MoreRecord shop’s silent disco blocked due to risk of noise complaints
Plan opposed by Metropolitan Police after confusion around previous amplified events
Read MoreHackney residents crowdfund to save climbing frame before council scraps it
Parents at Linzell Estate launch £3.5k appeal to repair ageing playset
Read MoreHackney councillor hits out at ‘rotten’ Labour following Diane Abbott’s suspension
Independent Socialist Claudia Turbet-Delof, an ex-Labour councillor, says ‘this is exactly why we left’
Read MoreHackney MP Diane Abbott suspended by Labour again following racism comments
Abbott banned after defending views that led to her previous suspension
Read MoreWest Reservoir swimmers fight to save communal changing rooms as council revamp gets underway
Petition launched by campaigners who worry community ethos will be lost
Read MoreHackney music venues given acoustic upgrades in pioneering audio-inclusivity project
Paper Dress Vintage, SJQ and Vortex are now kitted out to host people who are sensitive to noise
Read MoreMoth Club campaigners in dark over plans for neighbouring block – as 20,000 sign petition
Manager of popular venue fears flats next door could ‘jeopardise’ its future
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