‘Love Shouldn’t Hurt’: Hackney stands together to tackle domestic violence
Town Hall event marks local launch of 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Based Violence campaign
Read MoreMedics vaccinate over 500 children in move to contain measles outbreak
“Vaccination works and is safe. We urge parents to contact their GP for advice if you think your child is unvaccinated”
Read MoreOutcry increases over plans to close all Hackney’s Overground ticket offices
Council considers proposals ‘unacceptable’ as Hackney Disability BackUp and RMT voice opposition
Read MoreThames Water slammed by residents for ‘inadequate’ response to Lea Bridge floods
‘We don’t want to see this any more in Hackney, this should be the last time. It takes its toll on everyone’
Read MoreDalston arts venues to unite for this year’s Winter Weekend
Community-led event will see galleries open up to celebrate the area’s 150-year association with the arts
Read MoreLegal row brewing between campaigners and council over Clapton garden build-over
Town Hall accused of ‘riding roughshod’ over local people but states legal challenge to plans has no grounds
Read MoreUK’s only floating record shop docks in Hackney for the winter
After a month of repairs to the canal boat it calls home, The Record Deck is back to business on the River Lea
Read MoreDriveNow – now in more of London
Join for free and get £20 credit to try flexible car sharing
Read MoreMayor of London pledges £25,000 for Clapton toilet revamp – but campaigners must raise the same amount in the next month to get it
Local group has been working with the council since 2014 to turn an abandoned loo into a community space
Read MoreRegeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London, book review: ‘Unusual in its diversity’
‘Real pleasure’ to be found in this 500-page collection of essays and literature centred around urban renewal
Read More‘Big step forward’: Hackney Council to get half of its power from renewables by April 2019
Town Hall proposes working with other local authorities ‘to put rocket boosters under investment in renewable energy’
Read MoreFelipe Baeza, Maureen Paley, exhibition review: ‘Rupture and regeneration’
The Mexican-born artist’s first solo UK show explores migration and mythology
Read MoreAction plan to contain multimillion pound overspend at Homerton Hospital
‘We will have an overspend here, but we are working with the Homerton to deal with it as fast as we can,’ say CCG
Read MoreAndi’s Wadadli Kitchen, Stoke Newington, food review: ‘Family and flavour on the menu’
The Great British Menu judge has rebranded her Stoke Newington haunt to reflect her Antiguan roots – and it does not disappoint
Read MoreCouncil’s use of embedded Home Office staff criticised as part of ‘hostile environment’
Project 17 and Hackney Green Party urge Town Hall to think again on ‘very intimidating’ policy
Read MoreStreet artist unveils First World War mural in Shoreditch to mark Remembrance Day
Jerome Davenport, also known as Ketones6000, previously painted a tribute to suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst in nearby Bow
Read MoreHackney writer wins prestigious flash fiction award
Tim Craig placed first in the Bridport Prize for his very short story
Read More‘Grim reading’: Net loss of hundreds of social rent homes expected under Woodberry Down plans
Town Hall contest figures though unable to directly refute them due to poor record-keeping in the 2000s
Read MoreMenace Beach, Oslo, live music review: ‘No better way to spend a Thursday night’
The few there to witness it were treated to a special performance by the Leeds five-piece
Read More‘No obvious link’ between Hackney’s drug markets and an increase in violence, report finds
Findings contradict National Crime Agency claims that drugs fuel London’s violent crime
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