London Fields tower block where bricks fell 100 feet faces a year of ‘major repairs’
‘Extensive corrosion’ caused brickwork to slide away from the top of Morland Estate last November – landing close to a primary school
Read MoreCraft Half: Beer-fuelled charity race coming to Hackney
Anti-poverty group Street Child says September event will pay for school places for kids across the globe
Read MoreTwo people rescued from council tower block after fire on 10th floor
Elderly pair led to safety following blaze this morning at the Trelawney Estate in Hackney Central
Read MoreCouncil forks out thousands to upgrade body-worn cameras for enforcement officers
Community safety team predicts the enhancements will lead to a £14k overspend
Read MoreHate crime consultation receives just 69 responses
The number of offences in the borough has increased by 332 since last year
Read MoreHackney at Pride: Drag royalty join council staff for ‘solidarity march’
120 locals put on a colourful show for the annual LGBTQI+ parade
Read MoreMayor launches art gallery project to build community-inspired model of future Hoxton
Large-scale replica of the area is on show at PEER gallery – and will evolve based on residents’ ideas
Read MoreCome along to a summer fun day on Daubeney Fields
Celebrate London National Park City week in Hackney
Read MoreCampaigners considering legal action after council approves Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall’s plan for 11 ‘genuinely affordable’ homes gets go-ahead – but new, permanent site for garden fails to win over opponents
Read MoreHackney Carnival project for young adults with autism returns this summer
Two local theatre companies team up again to bring back the popular Carnival Collective
Read MoreCampaigners stage ‘satirical’ dodgeball protest outside oil giant’s clean energy festival
Activists, including local group Divest Hackney, take aim at Shell’s ‘sickeningly cynical’ Make the Future event
Read MoreComic – Save Hackney Wick
Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the predicament facing one of Hackney’s most creative quarters
Read More‘Deities, not dinner’: Hackney and a plant-based past
Our resident food historian Gillian Riley points out that the vivid, varied vegan food we can now enjoy around the borough is rooted in traditions from hundreds of years ago
Read MoreTitbits – football fever, Feryal fury and the environmental approach to sex
Read this month’s column that pecks at the crumbs of news in the borough
Read MoreLeader – Hack to the future: the next ten years
An evocation of ‘the world of Hackney in 2028’ in honour of our 10th anniversary
Read MoreSave Britannia campaign boost as ‘high-powered’ objection letter reveals major developer’s concerns
Anthology says council leisure centre plans are ‘not value for money for residents’ in merciless 12-page dismantling
Read MoreEast End exhibitions – five of the best for July 2018
In our recurring feature, we cast an eye over the top local art exhibitions this month
Read MoreLet it Bee: Hackney’s Petchey Academy proud home to rooftop bee colonies
Student beekeepers are hoping for a rich honey harvest next summer
Read MoreLGBT+ gardening group in Hackney could bag £12k in supermarket cash giveaway
Rainbow Grow has been selected for Tesco’s community funding scheme – and shoppers can help them nab the biggest grant
Read MoreCampaigners fighting railway arches sell-off deliver petition to transport secretary
Seven thousand people back Guardians of the Arches’ efforts to halt Network Rail’s billion-pound fire-sale
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