The Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’
Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds
Read More‘Enough is enough’: Bus drivers for Hackney’s disabled children to strike over pay
Trade union hits out at Town Hall ‘intransigence’ over split shift compensation
Read MoreOfsted rebukes council over slip in ‘quality of practice for vulnerable children’
Town Hall urged to take swift action over ‘areas of weakness’ in child protection
Read MoreAll hands to The Plough
Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen
Read MoreThames Water admits Lea Bridge floods were ‘too much’ for it to handle
‘If this was in another country, you would have had the Red Cross there, because it was that devastating’
Read MoreTitbits – Sugar hits and cabinet splits
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – Read it and weep
When a library-themed restaurant can’t get a booze licence in Shoreditch, the nightlife policy needs a rethink
Read MoreBullying row rumbles on as council hits back at unions with counter-allegations of ‘intimidatory behaviour’
Town Hall reacts angrily to trade unions pulling their support for investigation into working culture at its call centre
Read MoreSupervisor removed from Morning Lane roadworks following alleged assault
Police enquiries continue as victim claims Marlborough employee ‘pushed me aggressively in the chest’
Read MoreBrownlow Road residents complain of ‘Rolls-Royce prices’ in service charges
Housing chief vows to go through 17-page list of charges ‘line by line’
Read MoreIn at the Deep End, Kate Davies, book review: ‘A dizzying variety of lesbian sexual mores’
The Stoke Newington author’s new novel ‘explodes the myth that same-sex relationships are any more loving and equal’
Read MoreBacklash as Hackney North Labour passes motion rejecting claims of ‘institutional racism’
Walthamstow MP Stella Creasy calls on Labour’s executive committee to investigate Diane Abbott’s local party
Read More‘They’re your figures!’: Petitioners and deputy mayor again lock horns over controversial road closure scheme
Petition to scrap closures signed by over 700 residents and almost 60 businesses
Read MoreMayor declares ‘climate emergency’ as Tory councillor repeats denial of manmade global warming
Divest Hackney repeat calls on council to cease investment in fossil fuel companies
Read MoreCouncil bullying row: Diversity training announced as unions call for more staff to come forward
Hackney South Labour Party secretary quizzes council on action taken over allegations
Read MoreCouncil Tax increase passed as Mayor claims Town Hall is ‘thin red line’ against austerity
Hackney Conservatives oppose rises and call for £2m reduction in highway maintenance in alternate proposals
Read MoreRead it and weep: Restaurant for book lovers denied alcohol licence over Shoreditch nightlife fears
‘New venues bring people into the area, and then they stay in the area, and that adds to cumulative impact’, says councillor
Read MorePrint studio and Amazon’s UK HQ among winners of council’s 2018 Design Awards
Town Hall refurb and De Beauvoir Block also recognised – as family home in Homerton scoops People’s Choice prize
Read MoreLocal actor issues diabetes warning with diagnoses on the rise in Hackney
Desmond Barrit had four toes amputated after finding out he had Type 2 diabetes in 2009
Read MoreCouncil bullying probe in disarray as unions dramatically pull out
Town Hall ‘extremely disappointed’ with union move amidst allegations of ‘interference with witnesses’
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